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City of San Leandro <br />City Council <br />Meeting Date: June 20, 2023 <br />Agenda Number: 10.m. <br />Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br />File Number: 23-287 <br />File Type: Staff Report <br />Adopt a Resolution to Approve a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Minor Home Repair <br />Grant Agreement for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Between the City of San Leandro and Sub-Recipient <br />Rebuilding Together Oakland-East Bay for $150,000 <br />COUNCIL PRIORITY <br />·Housing and Homelessness <br />·Race and Equity Initiatives <br />SUMMARY <br />This Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Housing Activity project is authorized by <br />the City Council as part of the City's FY 2023-2024 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban <br />Development (HUD) Annual Action Plan approved on May 1, 2023. This grant provides up to <br />$5,000 to income qualified homeowners to improve and maintain their homes. <br /> RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution to approve the CDBG agreement <br />with Rebuilding Together Oakland East Bay (RTO) for $150,000 to administer the City's <br />Housing Minor Home Repair Program from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024. <br />BACKGROUND <br />Since 1989, the City’s Minor Home Repair Program (Housing Rehab Program) has been <br />effective in assisting very low -income homeowners, especially fixed -income seniors, to <br />improve and affordably remain in their homes and age in place. The Housing Rehab Program <br />also contributes to the City ’s efforts to preserve its aging housing stock. These efforts <br />advance the goals in the City’s General Plan Housing Element. <br /> <br />The Minor Home Repair Program provides grants of up to $5,000 to homeowners to improve <br />and maintain their homes. The grants are available to eligible owner -occupants of <br />single-family homes, duplexes, and mobile homes, and can pay for minor home repairs, <br />mobile home repairs, accessibility upgrades, exterior paint, exterior yard clean -up, and <br />seismic strengthening. Other rehabilitation projects could include sewer lateral replacements, <br />water heater replacements, roof replacements and repairs, electrical repairs, plumbing <br />repairs, installations of ADA compliant bathroom fixtures, mobile home leveling and new <br />mobile home skirting. Eligibility is based on income. For example, the current annual income <br />of a one-person household must not exceed $60,000 and the annual income of a two -person <br />household must not exceed $68,000. <br /> <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 6/14/2023