DATE: June 23, 2020
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Manager
SUBJECT
Title
Approve the City of Hayward's Five-Year Permanent Local Housing Allocation Plan and Authorization for the City Manager and Assigned Staff to Submit an Application to the State of California Department of Housing Community Development for Permanent Local Housing Allocation Funds for the Hayward Navigation Center
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That the City Council:
1. Receives and approves the Draft Permanent Local Housing Allocation Plan (Attachment II);
2. Adopts a Resolution Approving the City of Hayward's Five-Year PLHA Plan (Attachment III); and
3. Adopts a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager and Assigned Staff to Submit an Application to the State of California Department of Housing Community (Attachment IV)
SUMMARY
Senate Bill 2 (the Building Homes and Jobs Act) has created the Permanent Location Housing Allocation (PLHA) program, which provides formula grants to entitlement jurisdictions based upon the formula prescribed under federal law for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program.
The table below sets forth the PLHA amount of funding allocated to the City of Hayward in year 1 (actual) and an estimate of the amount of funding to be received during the initial five years of the PLHA Plan. Annual amounts will vary year to year based upon revenue realized under SB2.
Year 1 Allocation
5 Year Estimate
City of Hayward Allocation
$651,735
$3,910,410
The primary goal of the PLHA program is to create a permanent source of funding available to eligible local governments in California for housing-related projects and programs to address unmet housing needs in their local communities. Staff proposes to allocate all PLHA funding to the Hayward Navigation Center to be able to continue operating this successful program. Since opening, the Navigation Center has placed 18 Extremely Low-Income individuals into ...
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