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Staff Report for a Resolution Approving the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Consulting Services Agreement for $90,000 in FY 2016-2017 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 2016-2017. This CDBG Housing Activity project was authorized by the City Council on May 2, 2016 as part of the FY 2016-2017 HUD Action Plan.
BACKGROUND
Since 1989, the City's Housing Rehabilitation Program (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, assisting seniors to age in place, is identified in the City's current 2015 Housing Element, adopted in January 2015.
The Program provides grants of up to $5,000 to 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 and technical capacity. Neighborhood Solutions is an experienced administrator of municipal rehabilitation programs that also administers the rehabilitation programs for the Cities of Livermore and Pleasanton.
Since the dissolution of the City's Redevelopment Agency in 2012, the Program has been funded with federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. Due to the limited amount of CDBG funds available annually, the Program provides only small housing rehabilitation grants. Prior to the dissolution of the City's Redevelopment Ag...
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