Title
Adopt a Resolution to Approve a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Minor Home Repair Grant Agreement for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Between the City of San Leandro and Sub-Recipient Rebuilding Together Oakland-East Bay for $150,000
Staffreport
COUNCIL PRIORITY
* Housing and Homelessness
* Race and Equity Initiatives
SUMMARY
This Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Housing Activity project is authorized by the City Council as part of the City's FY 2023-2024 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Annual Action Plan approved on May 1, 2023. This grant provides up to $5,000 to income qualified homeowners to improve and maintain their homes.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution to approve the CDBG agreement with Rebuilding Together Oakland East Bay (RTO) for $150,000 to administer the City's Housing Minor Home Repair Program from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
BACKGROUND
Since 1989, the City's Minor Home Repair Program (Housing Rehab Program) has been effective in assisting very low-income homeowners, especially fixed-income seniors, to improve and affordably remain in their homes and age in place. The Housing Rehab Program also contributes to the City's efforts to preserve its aging housing stock. These efforts advance the goals in the City's General Plan Housing Element.
The Minor Home Repair Program provides grants of up to $5,000 to homeowners to improve and maintain their homes. The grants are available to eligible owner-occupants of single-family homes, duplexes, and mobile homes, and can pay for minor home repairs, mobile home repairs, accessibility upgrades, exterior paint, exterior yard clean-up, and seismic strengthening. Other rehabilitation projects could include sewer lateral replacements, water heater replacements, roof replacements and repairs, electrical repairs, plumbing repairs, installations of ADA compliant bathroom fixtures, mobile home leveling and new mobile...
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