Title
Staff Report for a Resolution of the City of San Leandro City Council authorizing the City Manager to Execute the Intergovernmental Collaboration Agreement to Fund an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice for Jurisdictions Participating in the Alameda County HOME Consortium
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the resolution authorizing the City Manager to take all appropriate action and execute the Intergovernmental Collaboration Agreement to fund an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice for jurisdictions in the Alameda County HOME Consortium.
BACKGROUND
The City of San Leandro receives an annual allocation of federal Community Development Block Grant ("CDBG") funding from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD"). As a CDBG entitlement grant jurisdiction, HUD requires that the City prepare an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice ("AI"), a tool that is used to identify and evaluate factors contributing to violation of Fair Housing law in a defined geographic area.
Analysis
In recent years HUD encouraged and provided a methodology for regional approaches to address fair housing issues, including collaboration across jurisdictions and public housing agencies. The City of San Leandro will work with the following jurisdictions to prepare a region-wide AI: the County of Alameda, the City of Alameda, City of Berkeley, the City of Fremont, the City of Hayward, the City of Livermore, the City of Oakland, the City of Pleasanton, the City of Union City, the Housing Authority of the County of Alameda, the Housing Authority of the City of Alameda, the Berkeley Housing Authority, the Housing Authority of the City of Livermore, and the Housing Authority of the City of Oakland.
Alameda County facilitated the competitive procurement of the consultant that will develop this document and will coordinate the regional effort to prepare it. The total cost for the...
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