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-5— Ch. 720 <br />with committed assistance from the city or county from nonaffordable to <br />affordable by acquisition of the unit or the purchase of affordability <br />covenants and restrictions for the unit, are not acquired by eminent domain, <br />and constitute a net increase in the community's stock of housing affordable <br />to low- and very low income households. For purposes of this subparagraph, <br />a unit is not converted by acquisition or the purchase of affordability <br />covenants unless all of the following occur: <br />(i) The unit is made available for rent at a cost affordable to low- or very <br />low income households. <br />(ii) At the time the unit is identified for acquisition, the unit is not <br />available at an affordable housing cost to either of the following: <br />(I) Low-income households, if the unit will be made affordable to <br />low-income households. <br />(II) Very low income households, if the unit will be made affordable to <br />very low income households. <br />(iii) At the time the unit is identified for acquisition the unit is not <br />occupied by low- or very low income households or if the acquired unit is <br />occupied, the local government has committed to provide relocation <br />assistance prior to displacement, if any, pursuant to Chapter 16 (commencing <br />with Section 7260) of Division 7 of Title 1 to any occupants displaced by <br />the conversion, or the relocation is otherwise provided prior to displacement; <br />provided the assistance includes not less than the equivalent of four months' <br />rent and moving expenses and comparable replacement housing consistent <br />with the moving expenses and comparable replacement housing required <br />pursuant to Section 7260. <br />(iv) The unit is in decent, safe, and sanitary condition at the time of <br />occupancy. <br />(v) The unit has long-term affordability covenants and restrictions that <br />require the unit to be affordable to persons of low- or very low income for <br />not less than 55 years. <br />(vi) For units located in multifamily ownership housing complexes with <br />three or more units, or on or after January 1, 2015, on foreclosed properties, <br />at least an equal number of new -construction multifamily rental units <br />affordable to lower income households have been constructed in the city or <br />county within the same planning period as the number of ownership units <br />to be converted. <br />(C) Units that will be preserved at affordable housing costs to persons <br />or families of low- or very low incomes with committed assistance from <br />the city or county by acquisition of the unit or the purchase of affordability <br />covenants for the unit. For purposes of this subparagraph, a unit shall not <br />be deemed preserved unless all of the following occur: <br />(i) The unit has long-term affordability covenants and restrictions that <br />require the unit to be affordable to, and reserved for occupancy by, persons <br />of the same or lower income group as the current occupants for a period of <br />at least 40 years. <br />(ii) The unit is within an "assisted housing development," as defined in <br />paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 65863.10. <br />90 <br />