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S.A. Aeee 299 of 302 <br />Mayor and City Council <br />City of Redwood City <br />1017 Middlefield Road <br />Redwood City, CA 94063 <br />Re: Surmort for South Main Mixed Use Proiect <br />Dear Mayor Howard and Honorable City Council members, <br />Project <br />Sentinel <br />November 4, 2020 <br />Via Email to council@redwoodcity.org <br />On behalf of Project Sentinel, I urge you to approve the South Main Mixed Use Project, including the 39 -unit <br />affordable housing property planned at 1304 EI Camino Real. Of these 39 affordable apartments, HIP Housing has <br />proposed that eight of the apartments shall be subject to a preference for Extremely Low -Income people with <br />developmental disabilities who would receive coordinated services funded by the Golden Gate Regional Center, <br />including housing support services provided by Housing Choices. <br />Project Sentinel is a private nonprofit organization providing comprehensive Fair Housing Services in the San <br />Francisco Bay Area and Central California since 1976. We currently serve a six county area, stretching from <br />Sacramento County through Stanislaus County, cities of Merced and Fremont, to San Mateo and Santa Clara <br />Counties. We investigate over 400 complaints of housing discrimination a year producing settlements among the <br />highest in the state. We also counsel an annual average of 6S0 homeowners to avert foreclosure; educate 900 <br />First Time Home Buyers and help resolve over 1,000 rental -housing disputes. <br />The affordable housing apartments proposed at 1304 EI Camino Real are urgently needed in Redwood City, <br />particularly by the City's residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Redwood City is home to 680 <br />people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who receive services from the Golden Gate Regional <br />Center. 264 of these residents are under 18 and live in families who are struggling financially to remain in <br />Redwood City and to avoid displacement and disruption of their disabled child's special education program and <br />services. 416 of these individuals are adults with developmental disabilities, most of whom are living at home with <br />aging parents. <br />Many Redwood City adults with developmental disabilities remain at home with aging parents only because of the <br />inability to secure an affordable apartment in their home community where they grew up and have formal and <br />informal support networks. The reduced parking proposed for the affordable housing works well with the transit <br />use of people with developmental disabilities who rarely own a car or have a drivers' license. <br />Thank you for your consideration. <br />Sincerely, <br />Ann Marquart <br />Executive Director <br />1490 El Camino Real • Santa Clara, California 95050 • 408-720-9888 • infoghousing org • www.housing.org <br />302 <br />