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Staff Report for a Resolution Approving the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Consulting Services Agreement for $90,000 in FY 2014-2015 Between the City of San Leandro and Neighborhood Solutions - $19,000 for Program Administration and $71,000 for the Provision of Housing Rehabilitation Grants
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution approving the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) consulting services agreement with Neighborhood Solutions for $90,000 to administer the City's Housing Rehabilitation Program for FY 2014-2015. This CDBG Housing Activity project was authorized by the City Council on May 5, 2014 in the FY 2014-2015 Consolidated Annual Action Plan.
BACKGROUND
Since 1989, the City's Housing Rehabilitation Program has been a popular and effective program for assisting very low-income homeowners, especially fixed-income seniors, to affordably and effectively maintain or improve their homes, which in turn enhances the City's residential neighborhoods. The program's other goal of assisting seniors to age in place in their present homes is identified in the City's most current 2010 Housing Element.
Since 2003, Housing Set Aside funds from the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Leandro (Agency) funded this program, which provided both loans and grants to single-family homeowners to improve and maintain their homes. The City began outsourcing the administration of the program in FY 2003-04 to Neighborhood Solutions due to inadequate City staffing capacity. Neighborhood Solutions is an experienced administrator of municipal rehabilitation programs that also administers the rehabilitation programs for the Cities of Livermore and Pleasanton.
Because of the dissolution of the Agency on February 1, 2012, the program is no longer funded through Redevelopment Housing Set-Aside funds and is instead funded with federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) fund...
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