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<br />7 A (1) <br />Attachment 11 Page 8 <br />Executive Summary-Annual <br />Action Plan by Priority <br /> <br />EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />FOURTH <br />ANNUAL ACTION PLAN <br />2008-2009 <br /> <br />The Consolidated Plan identifies priorities Redwood City adopted to use over the five <br />years from 2005 - 2010 to meet affordable housing goals and to improve the quality of <br />life for residents who are low income and have special needs. These priorities target <br />federal funds for public facilities and improvements, affordable housing, and social and <br />economic development programs. The three priorities are listed in rank order. <br /> <br />Priority Strategy # I: - Expansion and Preservation of Affordable Housing. <br /> <br />The goal of the City is to increase the affordable housing stock and provide decent, safe, <br />and sanitary housing in adequate supply and at affordability levels for a wide range of <br />residents from low income to poverty level. <br /> <br />Priority Strategy # 2: - Provide Public Service Activities That Help to Reduce Poverty, <br />Prevent Home/essness, and Provide Intervention Programs That Facilitate Self <br />Sufficiency, and Assist Special Needs Populations <br /> <br />The goal of the City is to provide a continuum of services ranging from homeless <br />prevention and homeless services, to supportive housing, intervention programs, and <br />services which respond to basic human needs including food, health, safety, survival, <br />independent living, and self-sufficiency. <br /> <br />Priority Strategy # 3: -Implement Non-Housing Community Development Activities to <br />Provide Economic and Physical Improvements and Facilities for Social Programs in <br />Low Income Neighborhoods <br /> <br />The goal of the City is to promote economic and job development activities for low income <br />persons, and facilitate capital improvements that improves the quality of life in low income <br />neighborhoods, and provides a variety of public facilities where anti-poverty and supportive <br />intervention services can be delivered for a range of special needs populations. <br /> <br />Funding Tarqets <br />Funding recommendations for CDBG were based on statutes allowance of 20% of CDBG <br />funds being allocated for Administration, Planning & Fair Housing, 15% for Public Services, <br />15% for non-housing community development facilities and improvements, and 50% for <br />affordable housing activities. <br /> <br />Funding recommendations for HOME funds were allocated according to the statute that <br />allows 10% of the entitlement to be reserved for administration, requires 15% to be set-a- <br />side for use by a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO), and the <br />remaining 75% to be allocated to affordable housing activities. <br /> <br />1 <br />