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Staff Report for Approving Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Consulting Services Agreement for $90,000 in FY 2013-2014 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 2013-2014. This CDBG Housing Activity project was authorized by the City Council on May 6, 2013 in the FY 2013-2014 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, including fixed-income seniors, to affordably maintain or improve their homes which in turn preserves and improves the City's housing stock while also enhancing 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 outsourced 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 Pleasanton and Livermore.
With the dissolution of the Agency on February 1, 2012, the program is no longer funded with Redevelopment Housing Set-Aside funds. Consequently, based on the direction of the Council, a reduced program is funded ...
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