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AP-50 Geographic Distribution – 91.220(f)
Description of the geographic areas of the entitlement (including areas of low-income and minority concentration) where assistance will be directed As discussed in MA-50 the City does not have areas of low-income or minority concentrations and therefore does not allocate federal funds geographically.
Geographic Distribution
Target Area Percentage of Funds
BERKELEY 100
Table 9 - Geographic Distribution
Rationale for the priorities for allocating investments geographically Not applicable.
Discussion
Not applicable.
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Affordable Housing
AP-55 Affordable Housing – 91.220(g)
Introduction
This section includes HOME-funded units only. Unit counts are broken out two ways: by population served and by type of housing provided. The table below includes information for Grayson Street Apartments, which will be funded with HOME funds in PY2018. The total number of units will equal 23.
One Year Goals for the Number of Households to be Supported Homeless 0
Non-Homeless 0
Special-Needs 9
Total 9
Table 10 - One Year Goals for Affordable Housing by Support Requirement
One Year Goals for the Number of Households Supported Through Rental Assistance 0
The Production of New Units 9
Rehab of Existing Units 0
Acquisition of Existing Units 0
Total 9
Table 11 - One Year Goals for Affordable Housing by Support Type
Discussion
Harper Crossing’s construction was completed and the building leased up in September 2017. The City anticipates reporting its completion in PY17.
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AP-60 Public Housing – 91.220(h)
Introduction
The Berkeley Housing Authority (BHA) is not a department of the City of Berkeley. BHA Board members are appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council. The Berkeley Housing Authority does not have any public housing.
Actions planned during the next year to address the needs to public housing Not applicable.
Actions to encourage public housing residents to become more involved in management and participate in homeownership
Not applicable.
If the PHA is designated as troubled, describe the manner in which financial assistance will be provided or other assistance
Not applicable.
Discussion
Not applicable.
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AP-65 Homeless and Other Special Needs Activities – 91.220(i) Introduction
Describe the jurisdictions one-year goals and actions for reducing and ending homelessness including reaching out to homeless persons (especially unsheltered persons) and assessing their individual needs
The City will continue to operate six Shelter Plus Care (S+C) grants and the locally-funded Square One program, providing rental assistance to a minimum of 235 households annually. This includes the City’s Housing for Older Adults Project (HOAP) S+C program which provides rental subsidies through the City’s Aging Services Division and the COACH grant, which provides rental subsidies and targets people who are chronically homeless. New S+C households continue to be prioritized through Alameda County’s Home Stretch registry, a County-wide centralized system which prioritizes people who are chronically homeless and high need with permanent supportive housing opportunities.
During PY18, the City will continue to work on the implementation of its Coordinated Entry System (CES). It will also participate in EveryOne Home's implementation process of expanding the CES countywide. Outreach and assessing individual needs are important components of the CES and will be expanded in PY18.
In PY17, the City was awarded a three year grant from the County of Alameda to increases services to literally homeless people. The City subcontracted the housing navigation and placement services to Berkeley Food and Housing Project, the CES operator for the northern part of Alameda County. The City also partnered with the cities of Albany and Emeryville. The project is expected to screen over 1,000 people and serve with intensive housing navigation and support a minimum of 170 people.
Addressing the emergency shelter and transitional housing needs of homeless persons The City will continue to provide funding for shelter and transitional housing. In PY17, the City expanded the number of year-round shelter beds from 118 to 148 year-round by increasing its funding to the YEAH! shelter which serves 18-24 year olds. The year-round beds are accessed through the City of Berkeley’s Coordinated Entry System that operates 9 a.m. - noon and 1-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. A second shelter reservation period occurs from 7-8 p.m. to fill available BOSS and BFHP shelter beds that are unoccupied.
In addition to the year-round shelter beds, the City funds a winter shelter program. In the past, the winter shelter was activated when inclement weather was forecast (temperature expected to reach 40 or below or rain). The past two seasons, the City has funded a nightly shelter from December to mid- Attachment 2
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April adding approximately 75-90 beds.
Helping homeless persons (especially chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to permanent housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that individuals and families experience homelessness, facilitating access for homeless individuals and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming homeless again
The City of Berkeley has encouraged its network of providers of services to the homeless to focus their efforts on rapidly re-housing their clients. The City has centralized its funded case management services at the CES to allow for ongoing case management regardless of the person's housing status or enrollment at a particular shelter.
In addition, the City is funding Housing Specialist positions whose only role is to identify, cultivate and maintain partnerships with property owners. These case management and housing opportunities will assist all literally homeless clients in Berkeley but will be primarily targeted at individuals and families who are chronically homeless and have multiple barriers.
In PY17, to better serve its homeless families, the City partnered with the City of Oakland and Oakland homeless service providers to expand its Family Front Door, to include homeless families from Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville. Because families often have different service and housing needs than homeless people who are single, this partnership with family focused providers has improved access to resources for families including shelter and transitional housing opportunities.
Helping low-income individuals and families avoid becoming homeless, especially extremely low-income individuals and families and those who are: being discharged from publicly funded institutions and systems of care (such as health care facilities, mental health facilities, foster care and other youth facilities, and corrections programs and institutions); or, receiving assistance from public or private agencies that address housing, health, social services, employment, education, or youth needs.
The Coordinated Entry System will provide people who are at imminent risk of becoming homeless (HUD Homeless definition (Category 2) with problem solving support to retain current housing or to locate another housing placement. This will include mediation with family members and friends to keep individuals and families from entering the shelter system. Additionally, the City has allocated $832,500 to assist permanently and temporarily housed Berkeley residents from being evicted, which includes rental assistance and eviction defense.
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intended to prevent discharges of individuals from these systems into homelessness, described in detail in the Consolidated Plan. The City will continue to participate in countywide efforts to reduce discharges into homelessness.
Discussion
The City of Berkeley’s CES provides a single point of entry for people who are homeless to be screened and assessed for a range of City funded homeless programs, including emergency shelters, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and rapid rehousing services. All contracted service providers report outcomes based on the countywide outcome standards developed by Everyone Home, in order to inform future adjustments to the service system.
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AP-75 Barriers to affordable housing – 91.220(j)
Introduction:
Actions it planned to remove or ameliorate the negative effects of public policies that serve as barriers to affordable housing such as land use controls, tax policies affecting land, zoning ordinances, building codes, fees and charges, growth limitations, and policies affecting the return on residential investment
City Council adopted a Housing Action Plan in November 2017 that contains a set of actions that are targeted at preserving existing affordable housing, eliminating barriers and increasing affordable housing production. For example, the Plan requires staff to “examine and eliminate barriers to developing student housing and senior housing” and “create specific per acre density standards, including standards for projects include density bonus units”.
In the past, accessory dwelling unit (ADU) requirements were considered a barrier to affordable housing. In July 2015, City Council adopted regulations to make it easier for homeowners to legally create ADUs as-of-right in most circumstances, no longer requiring a lengthy zoning review and approval process and also relaxing the parking requirements in cases when the ADUs are within a half-mile of BART or a major AC Transit bus line. The City has also changed Zoning regulations to allow more “by- right” Accessory Dwelling Units. The relaxed ADU requirements are designed to increase the supply and range of housing options in Berkeley.
The permit process in Berkeley may be considered a constraint to housing production, although based on the amount of affordable and market-rate development that has been approved and the density of those projects, it does not appear to have deterred new development and the City met most of the previous California Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) targets. However, Policy H-34 (from the City’s Housing Element[1]) calls for the City to continue to improve and streamline the development review process and to evaluate regulations to identify and reduce unnecessary impediments to housing development and affordable housing projects.
Additionally, while the zoning ordinance includes five multi-family zoning districts and the City has seen a number multi-family development projects, Housing Policy H-34 encourages the review of infill development regulations in residential districts to identify and change possible constraints.
The City has also begun a comprehensive review and revision process for the City Zoning Ordinance.
Results will be improved transparency, leading to an easier and more predictable development application processes.
Discussion
Not applicable.
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AP-85 Other Actions – 91.220(k)
Introduction:
The City of Berkeley uses a range of strategies to address the housing, homeless, and community development goals identified in the Consolidated Plan. This section discusses actions planned to foster and maintain affordable housing, to reduce lead-based paint hazards, to reduce the number of poverty- level families in Berkeley, and to coordinate activities in these areas with other entities.
Actions planned to address obstacles to meeting underserved needs One of Berkeley’s major obstacles to meeting underserved needs is the limited amount of federal, state, and local resources available given the diversity of needs in the community and high cost of housing in the Bay Area. The City of Berkeley will continue to pursue new State and Federal resources as available to meet underserved needs.
Actions planned to foster and maintain affordable housing The City has several programs which foster and maintain affordable housing in Berkeley:
• Rent Stabilization Program. In 1980, Berkeley residents passed the Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance. The Ordinance regulates rent levels for approximately 26,000 residential rental units in Berkeley and provides tenants in more than 26,000 units protection against unwarranted evictions helping to maintain affordable housing and preserve community diversity.
• Affordable Housing Mitigation Fee (AHMF). The City requires developers of new market rate rental housing to pay a fee of $34,000 per unit or to provide 20% as many income and rent restricted units—split evenly between those affordable to households earning 50% or less or 80% or less of the area median income—in lieu of the fee. Fee income goes into the City’s Housing Trust Fund to support affordable housing development. In 2016, the City adopted an ordinance requiring that certain units provided under this program are reserved for tenants with Section 8 and Shelter Plus Care.
• Condominium Conversion Ordinance (CCO). The CCO governs the conversion of rental apartments and tenancy-in-common buildings to condominiums, and other types of mutual or cooperative housing. It requires owners to pay a mitigation fee. Fee revenue goes into the City’s Housing Trust Fund.
• Commercial Linkage Fee. The Affordable Housing Mitigation Program was approved on April 20, 1993. It imposed fees on commercial new construction in which the newly constructed gross floor area is over 7,500 square feet.
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from a variety of sources with different requirements, makes them available through one single application process to local developers, then monitors development and operation of the funded housing.
• Inclusionary Housing Ordinance for ownership housing. The ordinance requires developers of market rate ownership housing to include affordable ownership units or pay a fee. • Mortgage Credit Certificate. MCC is a federal income tax credit that provides qualified low- income homebuyers a tax credit worth up to 15 percent of their annual mortgage interest paid on their home loan. MCC recipients adjust their federal income tax withholding, which increases their take-home pay, making monthly mortgage payments more affordable. The City participates in the Alameda County MCC program.
• Senior and Disabled Loan Rehab Program. HHCS administers the program as an effort to preserve the City’s housing stock and to assist low- and moderate-income senior and disabled homeowners, funded by CDBG and CalHOME. The applicants receive a zero interest loan, secured by a deed of trust on their home, which is repaid when title to the property changes hands, normally as a result of the sale of the property or inheritance by the owner’s heirs.
Actions planned to reduce lead-based paint hazards
The City will continue to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program in its Senior and Disabled Rehabilitation Loan Program.
The City of Berkeley Public Health Division and the Alameda County Lead Poisoning Prevention Program will work together to increase awareness and knowledge about lead poisoning prevention in Berkeley including providing lead-safe painting classes, in-home consultations, garden soil lead testing kits, presentations, educational materials, and other services. Rebuilding Together will work with the City of Berkeley and Alameda County Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs to increase awareness of lead issues among their clients and volunteers and to incorporate lead safe work practices into their activities.
The City of Berkeley Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program collaborates with the Berkeley Health, Housing & Community Services Department’s State lead-certified Risk Assessor/Inspector, Project Designer, and Project Monitor. The Alameda County Healthy Homes Department also has a HUD Lead Hazard Control grant to remediate lead hazards in approximately 4 qualifying Berkeley housing units that are vacant, or occupied by a low-income household with either a child under 6, a pregnant woman, or a child under 6 years who regularly visits. Berkeley’s program also provides case management services to families with children who have elevated blood lead levels. Services range from Public Health Nursing case management for children with blood lead levels above 15 µg/dL to health Attachment 2
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education for children with levels between 5-14 µg/dL.
Actions planned to reduce the number of poverty-level families The City funds a wide variety of social service programs designed to assist households with poverty level incomes. These programs include childcare and a range of services for special needs populations, which are outlined in other sections of this Consolidated Plan. This section will highlight the City’s strategies to increase livable wage employment opportunities by supporting related community services and working with public and private regional partners. Strategies include:
• Funding and refinement of anti-poverty programs provided by community-based organizations and by the City.
• Community agency contracts are outlined in the Annual Action Plan. • Collaborate actively with CalWORKS (TANF) and Workforce Investment Act programs. • Continue implementation of the City of Berkeley’s Living Wage Ordinance. Foster regional coordination on economic development to benefit low income Berkeley residents. • Linking homelessness and homelessness prevention programs to employment training and placement opportunities.
• Proposed amendments to the Minimum Wage Ordinance to incrementally raise Berkeley’s minimum wage so that it would be $15 an hour by October 1, 2018 for large employers and $15 an hour by October 1, 2020 for small employers and non-profits and the adoption of a Paid Sick leave Ordinance that will provide enhanced paid sick leave entitlements beyond what is required by state law.
The City has contracted with the local workforce development programs to provide training, education and job placement for low income, under-employed, and unemployed residents:
• Inter-City Services provides employment, training, and education and continues to serve veterans as funded under the Governor’s 15 percent Discretionary pool of Workforce Investment Opportunity Act (WIOA) funds.
• Biotech Partners operates the Biotech Academy at Berkeley High School, targeting youth from under-represented populations in the fields of science and biotechnology (African American, Latino, South East Asian, female and low-income youth) and who may be at risk of not graduating from high school.
• The Bread Project provides training in culinary arts and bakery production, and includes the formerly incarcerated and refugees as their target population. They operate a social enterprise (wholesale bakery) that creates opportunities for trainees to obtain crucial on-the-job experience.
• Rising Sun Energy Center’s Green Energy Training Services (GETS) provides pre-apprenticeship training for the building and construction trades and careers in green and clean technologies, Attachment 2
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including solar installation, through classroom and hands-on training. Their training calendar includes women-only cohorts in order to increase the number of women in the building and construction trades. Rising Sun also operates the California Youth Energy Services (CYES) program funded by the CA Public Utilities Commission, providing summer jobs for young people conducting residential energy audits.
• The City's anti-poverty strategy continues to be closely tied to the funding of over 50 community agencies to provide services as described above to enable people in poverty to attain self- sufficiency, support at-risk youth to succeed in school and graduate, and protect the health and safety of low income people.
Actions planned to develop institutional structure
During the next year, the City of Berkeley will continue to coordinate the housing and community services activities within the department through regular senior staff meetings and coordination on specific topics.
Actions planned to enhance coordination between public and private housing and social service agencies
City staff will also continue to participate in the implementation of Everyone Home, the countywide plan to end homelessness. Everyone Home spearheads Alameda County’s Continuum of Care. Staff will continue to participate in the initiative’s Leadership Board, which includes most public funders of housing and homeless services in the county, as well as leadership from key community based organizations. Leadership Board membership helps coordination efforts across the county. Staff also participates in other committees composed of other funders (such as Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services and the Social Services Agency) as well as many community based organizations.
Recent countywide collaboration efforts include the 2017 Point in Time homeless survey, count and report and the countywide implementation of CES.
Discussion:
The majority of Berkeley’s activities furthering the goals of the Annual Action Plan are provided by community agency partners. This will continue to be the case in PY18.
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Program Specific Requirements
AP-90 Program Specific Requirements – 91.220(l)(1,2,4)
Introduction:
Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG)
Reference 24 CFR 91.220(l)(1)
Projects planned with all CDBG funds expected to be available during the year are identified in the Projects Table. The following identifies program income that is available for use that is included in projects to be carried out.
1. The total amount of program income that will have been received before the start of the next program year and that has not yet been reprogrammed 180,000
2. The amount of proceeds from section 108 loan guarantees that will be used during the year to address the priority needs and specific objectives identified in the grantee's strategic plan. 0
3. The amount of surplus funds from urban renewal settlements 0
4. The amount of any grant funds returned to the line of credit for which the planned use has not been included in a prior statement or plan 0
5. The amount of income from float-funded activities 0
Total Program Income: 180,000
Other CDBG Requirements
1. The amount of urgent need activities 0
2. The estimated percentage of CDBG funds that will be used for activities that benefit persons of low and moderate income. Overall Benefit - A consecutive period of one, two or three years may be used to determine that a minimum overall benefit of 70% of CDBG funds is used to benefit persons of low and moderate income. Specify the years covered that include this Annual Action Plan. 98.00%
HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME)
Reference 24 CFR 91.220(l)(2)
1. A description of other forms of investment being used beyond those identified in Section 92.205 is as follows:
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describes eligible activities for HOME funds.
2. A description of the guidelines that will be used for resale or recapture of HOME funds when used for homebuyer activities as required in 92.254, is as follows:
No homeownership activities are anticipated for PY 2018.
3. A description of the guidelines for resale or recapture that ensures the affordability of units acquired with HOME funds? See 24 CFR 92.254(a)(4) are as follows:
No homeownership activities are anticipated for PY 2018.
4. Plans for using HOME funds to refinance existing debt secured by multifamily housing that is rehabilitated with HOME funds along with a description of the refinancing guidelines required that will be used under 24 CFR 92.206(b), are as follows:
The City¿s policy is not to use HOME funds to pay off outstanding debt on single family or multifamily housing development projects. The City may commit HOME funds to projects that include refinancing with other sources of funds.
Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG)
Reference 91.220(l)(4)
1. Include written standards for providing ESG assistance (may include as attachment) The City, Everyone Home and Countywide representatives are in the process of updating the ESG manual. The most recent version was attached to the 2015 Consolidated Plan.
2. If the Continuum of Care has established centralized or coordinated assessment system that meets HUD requirements, describe that centralized or coordinated assessment system.
The Alameda County Continuum of Care has initiated its planning process to establish its coordinated assessment system. The countywide system is now being implemented through five regional Housing Resource Centers.
3. Identify the process for making sub-awards and describe how the ESG allocation available to private nonprofit organizations (including community and faith-based organizations).
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support the County-wide Homeless Management Information System. The remaining $196,343 will be allocated to the operator of the City of Berkeley’s Coordinated Entry System (CES). The CES staff will screen, assess and prioritize homeless clients for rapid rehousing assistance with supporting housing retention services. ESG funds will also support Emergency Shelter and Street Outreach through the CES.
4. If the jurisdiction is unable to meet the homeless participation requirement in 24 CFR 576.405(a), the jurisdiction must specify its plan for reaching out to and consulting with homeless or formerly homeless individuals in considering policies and funding decisions regarding facilities and services funded under ESG.
The policy-making entity for the City of Berkeley which makes decisions regarding the facilities, services, and other programs to receive funding under the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) is the Berkeley City Council. The Berkeley City Council is elected by the citizens of Berkeley. The City cannot mandate that a homeless or formerly homeless individual be on the City Council. Therefore, the City must develop and implement a plan to consult with homeless or formerly homeless individuals in making policies and decisions regarding programs that receiving funding under ESG.
City staff are planning, in conjunction with Everyone Home, to host a forum each year for homeless clients, in order to involve them in policy-making and decisions regarding ESG-funded services. The details have yet to be determined. Formerly homeless people also hold seats on various EveryOne Home Committees.
5. Describe performance standards for evaluating ESG.
The performance standards to be applied to ESG activities is attached as an image labeled Outcome Measures. These standards were developed in 2009-2010 through the leadership of Everyone Home (the Continuum of Care) and partially funded by City of Berkeley General Funds. This matrix presents outcome standards for each type of program in the Continuum of Care. Most were established as a percentage of the average outcomes achieved by all County programs (for example, the average permanent housing placement rate of all emergency shelters) and will be adjusted over time to ensure continued improvement.
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Systemwide Performance Targets for Rapid Re-Housing Services Rapid Re-Housing Target
How Much?
Service Population: Unduplicated count of
individuals served (HUD Element, APR Q5a)
observe
Service Population: Proportion of chronically
homeless individuals served (HUD Element, APR
Q5a)
observe
Service Population: Unduplicated count of
households served(HUD Element, Annual
Performance Report/APR Q8a)
observe
Service Population: Proportion of chronically
homeless households served (HUD Element, APR
Q26a)
observe
How Well?
Data Quality: Data entry within 3 days (HUD
Element, APR Q6e)
100%
Data Quality: Completion. Adult participants with
income info. recorded in HUD Element at entry and
annual or exit assessments (HUD Element, APR
Q18)
90%
Average length of time from enrollment to move in
(HUD Element, Apr Q22c)
60% within 2
months
With What Impact?
Are participants growing their income? (HUD
Element, APR Q19a3)
50%
Are participants accessing mainstream benefits?
(HUD Element, APR Q20b)
85%
Are participants enrolled in health insurance?(HUD
Element, APR Q21)
85%
Are we successfully moving people into permanent
housing? (HUD Element, APR Q23a&b)
80%
Exits to Homelessness: What proportion of people
exit to homeless destinations? (HUD Element APR
Q23a&b)
<5%
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL
The Health, Housing & Community Services Department is proposing a Public Hearing addressing proposed Substantial Amendments to the Annual Action Plans for Program Years (PY) 2018 (7/01/18-6/30/19) and 2019 (7/01/19-6/30/20) which includes recommended allocations of Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG).
The hearing will be held on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, at 6:00 P.M., in the Berkeley Unified School District Board Room, 1231 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94702.
The proposed Substantial Amendments to the PY2018 and PY2019 Annual Action Plans are required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Substantial Amendments to the Plans includes shifting an allowable 60% of each year’s Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds from the Rapid Rehousing to Emergency Shelter and Street Outreach programming. The PY2018 ESG allocation is $219,490 and the PY2019 allocation is $227,398.
A copy of the agenda material for this hearing will be available on the City’s website at www.CityofBerkeley.info as of June 28, 2019.
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: The public also has from June 28, 2019 to July 29, 2019 to submit written comments on the Substantial Amendments to the PY2018 and PY2019 Annual Action Plans. A draft of each of the Substantial Amendments is available for public review at the reference desk of the Berkeley Public Library at 2090 Kittredge Street, and at the Front Desk of the Health, Housing and Community Services Department at 2180 Milvia Street, 2nd Floor between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The Plans are also available on the City’s website at
http://www.cityofberkeley.info/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=12160. For more information or to provide written comments on any of these plans or funding allocations, contact Rhianna Babka at [email protected] or 981-5410.
This meeting is being held in a wheelchair accessible location.
Accommodations Provided Upon Request. To request a disability-related accommodation(s) to participate in the meeting, including auxiliary aids or services, please contact the Disability Services specialist at 981-6342 (V) or 981-6345 (TDD) at least three business days before the meeting date.
Providing at least three working days’ notice will help to ensure availability at the meeting.
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l Departamento de Servicios de Salud, Vivienda y Comunidad propone una audiencia pública frente a la propuesta de Modificación Sustancial al Plan Anual de Acción para los Años de Servicios PY2018 (07/01/17 – 06/30/18) y para el año 2019 (07/01/18 - 06/30/19), los cuales incluyen las asignaciones recomendadas de la Beca de Soluciones de Emergencia (Emergency Solutions Grant – ESG).
La audiencia se llevará acabo el martes, 23 de julio del 2019 a las 6:00 P.M. en la sala de audiencias del Distrito Escolar de Berkeley ubicada en la Calle Addison 1231, Berkeley, CA 94702. + La propuesta de Modificación Sustancial al Plan de Acción Anual PY2018 y PY2019 es un requisito del Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de E.E. U.U. (HUD siglas en inglés). La Modificación Sustancial a los Planes es para permitir una reasignación del 60% del presupuesto asignado al Programa de Relocalización Rápida de Vivienda y asignar estos fondos a los programas Albergue de Emergencia y el programa de Divulgación Ambulante.
La copia del material que será tratado en esta audiencia estará disponible en la página electrónica de la Ciudad a partir del 28 de junio de 2019. www.CityofBerkeley.info PERIODO DE COMENTARIO PÚBLICO: A partir del 28 de junio del 2019 y hasta el 29 de julio del 2019, el público podrá presentar comentarios por escrito sobre la Modificacion Substancial al Plan de Acción Anual de los anios PY 2018 y PY 2019. Un borrador de cada Plan están disponibles al público en los escritorios de referencia en la Biblioteca Pública de Berkeley localizada en Calle Kittredge 2090, y en el escritorio de recepción del Departamento de Salud, Vivienda y Servicios Comunitarios de la ciudad de Berkeley localizado en la Calle Milvia 2180, 2do Piso, entre las 9 am hasta las 5 pm. Los planes también están disponibles en la página electrónica http://www.cityofberkeley.info/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=12160.
Si necesitan más información o si desean presentar comentarios por escrito, favor comunicarse con Roxana Andrade-Lizarzaburu al 510.981.5402 o por correo electrónico a [email protected] . 通告
柏克萊市議會將舉行公聽會，討論聯邦經費分配，計劃建議書， 及市民参與計劃。
時間：二零一九年，七月二十三日，星期二， 下午六時
地點：柏克萊校區議事廳，1231 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94702
經費包括：社區發展經費(CDBG)， 緊急庇護經費(ESG)，及房屋建設經費(HOME)， 並討論計劃建議書
（二零一九年六月二十八日至二零一九年七月二十九日）。
詳情請致電：（510）981 4928 鄭女士查詢
Published: June 28, 2019
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Annual Action Plan – Substantial Amendment #2
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49 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018)
PY18 City of Berkeley Annual Action Plan – Substantial Amendment Citizen Participation Outreach
Mode of Outreach Target of Outreach Summary of
Response/Attendance
Summary of
Comments Received
Summary of
Comments Not
Accepted and
Reasons
Email EveryOne Home –
Alameda County
Homeless Continuum
of Care
None. None. N/A
Email Local Businesses None. None. N/A
Email Local Affordable
Housing Developers
None. None. N/A
Email Faith-based
Organizations
None. None. N/A
Mailer to BHA
residents
Public Housing
Residents
Not available within
time frame.
N/A N/A
Flyers at Recreation
Centers
South & West Berkeley
(NSA)
None.
None.
N/A
Flyers at Affordable
Housing Development
Residents of
Affordable Housing
Flyers distributed to
over 50 non-profit
agencies serving low-
income people
Low-income
Population, including
seniors and persons
with disabilities
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50 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018)
Flyers at two Berkeley
Senior Centers
Seniors
To be added - public notice and summarized comments for amendment #2 as attachments
Attachment 2
CITY OF BERKELEY
SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT #3
ANNUAL ACTION PLAN
FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
JULY 1, 2019 – JUNE 30, 2020 (PY 2019)
For the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development
San Francisco Field Office of Community
Planning and Development
FEBRUARYJULY, 20241
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2 Table of Contents
Executive Summary ...................................................................................................................... 3 AP-05 Executive Summary - 24 CFR 91.200(c), 91.220(b) ...................................................... 3 PR-05 Lead & Responsible Agencies – 91.200(b) .................................................................... 7 AP-10 Consultation – 91.100, 91.200(b), 91.215(l) ................................................................... 8 AP-12 Participation – 91.105, 91.200(c) ................................................................................. 11 Expected Resources ................................................................................................................... 19 AP-15 Expected Resources – 91.220(c)(1,2) .......................................................................... 19 Annual Goals and Objectives ...................................................................................................... 23 Projects ................................................................................................................................... 27 AP-35 Projects – 91.220(d) ..................................................................................................... 27 AP-38 Project Summary .......................................................................................................... 28 AP-50 Geographic Distribution – 91.220(f) ............................................................................. 33 Affordable Housing ..................................................................................................................... 34 AP-55 Affordable Housing – 91.220(g) ................................................................................... 34 AP-60 Public Housing – 91.220(h) .......................................................................................... 35 AP-65 Homeless and Other Special Needs Activities – 91.220(i) ........................................... 36 AP-75 Barriers to affordable housing – 91.220(j) .................................................................... 38 AP-85 Other Actions – 91.220(k) ............................................................................................ 39 Program Specific Requirements ................................................................................................. 43
Attachment 1: City of Berkeley CDBG, ESG, and HOME Projects - revised Attachment 2: Systemwide Performance Targets for Rapid Re-Housing Services Attachment 3: Public Notice and Community Participation Summary – to be updated
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3 Executive Summary
AP-05 Executive Summary - 24 CFR 91.200(c), 91.220(b)
1. Introduction
This Annual Action Plan is the 5th Annual Action Plan for the current Consolidated Planning period.
2. Summarize the objectives and outcomes identified in the Plan The City of Berkeley (COB) has ambitious objectives for spending its federal entitlement grant funding. Berkeley allocates these and other state and local funds to maximize assistance for its low and moderate-income households through:
• Housing acquisition, rehabilitation, repair, and accessibility improvements, • Assisting homeless adults and families including those with disabilities and other special needs, through emergency shelter, transitional housing, and service-enriched affordable, supportive housing; and
• Funding public facilities improvements to protect and sustain the infrastructure critical to community services and economic vitality in Berkeley.
The COB has long placed a high priority on affordable housing and community services because they reflect important community values. The City now invests more General Fund dollars into related programs than it receives in federal funding for these activities. The City is committed to maintaining high-quality programs for those in need but faces challenges due to uncertainty in future federal funds available. At the same time, ESG, HOME, Consolidated Plan, and Annual Action Plan requirements have substantially increased. Uncertain funding and increased administrative burden will impact the City’s ability to address all of the many needs identified.
Approved Allocations. As summarized in AP-38 and detailed in Attachment 1, the COB plans to allocate $2,667,120 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds together with $1,166,259 in prior years’ carryover and $250,531 in CDBG program income to fund:
• $2,903,6582,753,657 in housing projects and programs; • $453,921 in public services;
• $152,908302,908 for community and public facilities activities; and • $573,424 to administer all facets of the City’s CDBG program.
The COB will utilize its PY19 ESG allocation of $227,398 to: serve literally homeless people through the Coordinated Entry System ($203,667), support the County-wide Homeless Attachment 3
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4 Management Information System, ($6,676), and support its program planning and administration activities ($17,055).
The COB will utilize its PY19 HOME allocation of $737,273 and $20,000 (projected) in program income for program administration ($75,727), Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) operations ($28,115) and will allocate the remaining balance to its Housing Trust Fund ($633,431).
3. Evaluation of past performance
The City reviews and evaluates its performance through its annual submission of the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report. The City tracks single family and multi-family housing rehabilitation efforts and housing development efforts.
The City's Single Family Rehabilitation (SFR) program comprised of the City's Senior and/or Disabled Rehab Home Loan Program (SDRLP), Center for Independent Living, Community Energy Services Corporation and Rebuilding Together is evaluated on an ongoing basis to ensure that the most significant health and safety improvements are prioritized and that sufficient outreach is occurring to increase the number of unduplicated households served overtime.
In PY17, the City restructured its community facility RFP process to be more responsive to emergent agency needs. The City shifted its RFP process to a rolling application period with a minimum grant amount of $100,000. The program will continue to focus on CDBG priorities for substantial rehabilitation for health and safety, ADA, and/or energy efficiency improvements. CDBG funds were allocated for renovations to the City’s Adult Mental Health Clinic in PY2017 and PY2018.
Outcomes for all public services community agency programs funded with federal funds are tracked, and prior outcomes are used to inform funding decisions. The City also uses countywide Homeless Count and program outcome data to inform its goals on homelessness.
4. Summary of Citizen Participation Process and consultation process A public hearing on community needs was held on October 17, 2018 before members of the Human Welfare and Community Action Commission (HWCAC), and the Children Youth and Recreation Commission (CYRC). Members from the Housing Advisory Commission (HAC) and the Homeless Commission were unable to attend the Public Hearing. The draft plan was posted on the City's website, and a copy was presented to the HAC at its February 7, 2019 and March 7, 2019 meetings. At its March 7, 2019 meeting, the HAC approved the Annual Action Plan. A Public Hearing on the Final Draft Plan was held on April 23, 2019 before the Berkeley City Council. Outreach was accomplished via mailings to interested parties, including Alameda County Homeless Continuum of Care, community agencies serving low-income people, and Attachment 3
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5 public buildings such as recreation centers, senior centers, libraries and other government buildings.
Additional public participation for Amendment #3- to be added
5. Summary of public comments
At the October 17, 2018 public hearing, twenty Berkeley residents were present and provided testimony related to improving the homeless services website, strategies and solutions for vehicular dwellers, Section 8 (Berkeley Housing Authority) customer services and assistance with landlord communications, partnerships with health and housing providers, welcoming ex- offenders back into the community, pedestrian safety and fair housing/housing discrimination education. The was an additional written comment submitted suggesting that services for affordable housing should include help or assistance for property taxes for low-income people, especially for older, single homeowners without enough space to rent rooms or part of their houses.
There were seventeen public comments at Housing Advisory Commission meetings on February 7th and March 7th and 13th, 2019. Public comments addressed concerns related to recommendations to fund organizations located in south Berkeley, particularly Inter-City Services and Rebuilding Together East Bay North. These two organizations provide workforce development and housing rehabilitation services, respectively.
Public comment at the April 23, 2019 City Council Public Hearing included testimony from twenty seven individuals concerned about services for low-income persons including: housing rehabilitation for homeowners, deaf and disability related services especially for homeless persons, health care and supportive services for formerly homeless persons, general homeless services, legal services for survivors of domestic violence, programming for youth graduating from Berkeley High School, and more transparency around monitoring agencies and the City’s budget process.
Amendment #2 Public Participation response were as follows:
• A draft of the Substantial Amendment was made available on the City’s webpage; and • Outreach and noticing to interested parties was conducted in accordance with the City’s Citizen Participation Plan; and
• A public hearing on the Substantial Amendment was held in front of Berkeley City Council on February 9, 2021. This public hearing and comment period was noticed in the Berkeley Voice on January 8, 2021.
• Five members of the public spoke at the February 9, 2021 public hearing on PY19 Annual Action Plan Substantial Amendment #2 in front of the City Council. Comments included support for the rental assistance program and testing and vaccine program, especially for immigrant populations. No written comments were received on the Attachment 3
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6 Substantial Amendment #2 from the public noticing.
Amendment #3 Public Participation response were as follows:
- To be added
-
6. Summary of comments or views not accepted and the reasons for not accepting them
All comments were accepted.
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7 PR-05 Lead & Responsible Agencies – 91.200(b)
1. Agency/entity responsible for preparing/administering the Consolidated Plan
Describe the agency/entity responsible for preparing the Consolidated Plan and those responsible for administration of each grant program and funding source.
Agency Role Name Department/Agency
CDBG Administrator BERKELEY Health, Housing & Community Services Department
HOME Administrator BERKELEY Health, Housing & Community Services Department
ESG Administrator BERKELEY Health, Housing & Community Services Department
Table 1 – Responsible Agencies
Narrative (optional)
The City of Berkeley’s Health, Housing & Community Services Department (HHCS) is the lead agency for overseeing the development of the plan. The Department coordinates the City’s funding allocation and monitoring for community based organizations, administration of the Housing Trust Fund, and operation of other housing and community services programs such as the Shelter Plus Care program, and Senior and Disabled Home Rehabilitation Loan Program.
The Department also includes the Mental Health, Public Health, and Aging Services divisions, which provide direct services to the community, and it includes the Environmental Health division.
Consolidated Plan Public Contact Information
Rhianna BabkaKat Larrowe
Community Services Specialist III
2180 Milvia Street, 2nd Floor
Berkeley, CA 94704
510-981-54107555
[email protected]@berkeleyca.gov
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8 AP-10 Consultation – 91.100, 91.200(b), 91.215(l)
1. Introduction
During the next year, the City of Berkeley will continue to coordinate the housing and community services activities within the department through regular senior staff meetings, such as a monthly Homeless Team meeting, and will continue to coordinate with other City Departments on specific topics. It will also consult with EveryOne Home, the countywide coordinating body and plan to end homelessness, and its partners at Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services and Social Services Agency as well as community stakeholders in Berkeley.
Provide a concise summary of the jurisdiction’s activities to enhance coordination between public and assisted housing providers and private and governmental health, mental health and service agencies (91.215(l)) City staff continue to participate in the implementation of EveryOne Home. EveryOne Home spearheads Alameda County’s Homeless Continuum of Care. Staff will continue to participate in the initiative’s various committees and/or Leadership Board, which includes most public funders of housing and homeless services in the county, as well as leadership from key community based organizations, including those which develop affordable housing. Leadership Board membership helps coordinate efforts across the county. In PY19, City will continue to work with EveryOne Home, Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services and Social Service Agency to continue to implement the Countywide Coordinated Entry System (CES) for homeless services and will participate in EveryOne Home’s ongoing implementation of multiple CES sites throughout the county. Other recent countywide collaboration efforts include Alameda County’s 2019 Point in Time Homeless Count and report and the ongoing implementation of the Home Stretch registry, an initiative targeting people who are chronically homeless and highly vulnerable.
Describe coordination with the Continuum of Care and efforts to address the needs of homeless persons (particularly chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans, and unaccompanied youth) and persons at risk of homelessness
In PY19, the City will continue to work with EveryOne Home, Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services and Social Service Agency to implement the Berkeley Coordinated Entry System (CES) for homeless services and will participate in EveryOne Home’s ongoing implementation of its he Coordinated Entry System throughout the county. These efforts have led to the standardization of screening, intake and assessments protocols across the Continuum of Care to better match people who are homeless with the best fit available housing solution.
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9 Describe consultation with the Continuum(s) of Care that serves the jurisdiction's area in determining how to allocate ESG funds, develop performance standards for and evaluate outcomes of projects and activities assisted by ESG funds, and develop funding, policies and procedures for the operation and administration of HMIS
Consultation with EveryOne Home, the Alameda-Countywide Continuum of Care, City of Berkeley, the City of Oakland, and the Alameda County Housing and Community Services Department was initiated in 2012. The discussion focused on how to implement the new ESG requirements in a way that would be consistent countywide and would continue the collaboration launched in 2009 with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing (HPRP) funds. The group held several meetings in PY12, resulting in the development of a policies and procedures manual that was used to implement the Priority Home Partnership Program. The most recent version was attached to the 2015 Consolidated Plan.
2. Describe Agencies, groups, organizations and others who participated in the process and describe the jurisdiction’s consultations with housing, social service agencies and other entities
1 Agency/Group/Organization EveryOne Home
Agency/Group/Organization Type Services - Housing
Services - Children
Services - Persons with Disabilities
Services - Homeless
Services - Employment
What section of the Plan was addressed
by Consultation?
Homeless Needs - Chronically homeless
Homeless Needs - Families with children
Homelessness Needs - Veterans
Homelessness Strategy
Briefly describe how the
Agency/Group/Organization was
consulted. What are the anticipated
outcomes of the consultation or areas for
improved coordination?
The City of Berkeley adopted EveryOne
Home's plan to end homelessness in 2006
and the City continues to participate in the
implementation of the plan. See above
coordination with EveryOne Home,
Alameda County Behavioral Health Care
Services and SSA.
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10 2 Agency/Group/Organization ALAMEDA COUNTY HOUSING &
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Agency/Group/Organization Type Services - Housing
Services - Children
Services - Persons with Disabilities
Services - Employment
What section of the Plan was addressed
by Consultation?
Homeless Needs - Chronically homeless
Homeless Needs - Families with children
Homelessness Needs - Veterans
Homelessness Strategy
Briefly describe how the
Agency/Group/Organization was
consulted. What are the anticipated
outcomes of the consultation or areas for
improved coordination?
See above coordination with Alameda
County.
Table 2 – Agencies, groups, organizations who participated
Identify any Agency Types not consulted and provide rationale for not consulting Not applicable.
Other local/regional/state/federal planning efforts considered when preparing the Plan
Name of Plan Lead
Organization
How do the goals of your Strategic Plan overlap
with the goals of each plan?
Continuum of
Care EveryOne Home
The City of Berkeley adopted EveryOne Home's plan
to end homelessness in 2006 and the City continues
to participate in the implementation of the plan.
Table 3 – Other local / regional / federal planning efforts
Narrative (optional)
Not applicable.
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11 AP-12 Participation – 91.105, 91.200(c)
1. Summary of citizen participation process/Efforts made to broaden citizen participation
Summarize citizen participation process and how it impacted goal-setting The City published a public hearing notice on September 28, 2018 in the Berkeley Voice in accordance with its citizen participation plan for a October 17, 2018 Public Hearing at a joint meeting of the Human Welfare and Community Agency and Children (HWCAC), Youth and Recreation Commission (CYRC), Housing Advisory Commission (HAC) and the Homeless Commission. It also sent the notification to residents of public and assisted housing, users of community and senior centers, libraries, and residents being served by over 50 community based agencies funded by the City of Berkeley. The City published a public hearing notice in the Berkeley Voice on March 22, 2019 for its April 23, 2019 Public Hearing at the Berkeley City Council meeting. This notification was also sent to residents of public and assisted housing, users of community and senior centers, libraries, and residents being served by over 50 community based agencies funded by the City of Berkeley.
The City published a public hearing notice in the Berkeley Voice in accordance with its citizen participation plan for a July 23, 2019 Public Hearing at the City’s Council Meeting. It also sent the notification users of community and senior centers, libraries, and persons being served by over 50 community based agencies funded by the City of Berkeley. The City published a public hearing notice in the Berkeley Voice on June 28, 2019 for its July 23,2019 Public Hearing at the Berkeley City Council meeting.
Substantial Amendment #2 Public Participation response were as follows:
• A draft of the Substantial Amendment was made available on the City’s webpage; and • Outreach and noticing to interested parties was conducted in accordance with the City’s Citizen Participation Plan; and
• A public hearing on the Substantial Amendment was held in front of Berkeley City Council on February 9, 2021. This public hearing was noticed in the Berkeley Voice on January 8, 2021.
• Five members of the public spoke at the February 9, 2021 public hearing on PY19 Annual Action Plan Substantial Amendment #2 in front of the City Council. Comments included support for the rental assistance program and testing and vaccine program, especially for immigrant populations. No written comments were received on the Substantial Amendment #2 from the public noticing.
Substantial Amendment #3 Public Participation response were as follows:
• To be added
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12 Attachment 3
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13 Citizen Participation Outreach
Attachment 3
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14 Sort
Order
Mode of
Outreac
h
Target of
Outreach
Summary
of
response/
attendance
Summary of
comments receive
d
Summary of
comments
not accepted
and reasons
URL (If
applicable
)
1 Public
Hearing
Minorities
Non-
English
Speaking -
Specify
other
language:
Spanish
and
Mandarin
Persons
with
disabilities
Residents
of Public
and
Assisted
Housing
Berkeley
Residents
20 community
members
attended
the
October
17, 2018
Public
Hearing
and 14
people
provided
testimony.
In addition,
1 written
comment
was
received.
Berkeley
residents
provided
testimony
regarding the
need for
improving the
homeless
services website,
strategies and
solutions for
vehicular
dwellers, Section
8 (Berkeley
Housing
Authority)
customer services
and assistance
with landlord
communications,
partnerships with
health and
housing
providers,
welcoming ex-
offenders back
into the
community,
pedestrian safety
fair
housing/housing
discrimination
education and
services for
property taxes
assistance for
low-income
people especially
for older, single
homeowners.
All comments
were
accepted.
Many of the
priorities
mentioned
are underway
and/or are
already
funded by the
City through
local, state
and federal
funds. The
City website
is currently
being
redesigned
and Section 8
comments
were referred
to the
Housing
Authority.
https://ww
w.cityofbe
rkeley.info
/Clerk/Co
mmission
s/Archive
_Pages/H
ousing_A
dvisory/C
ommissio
ns__Hous
ing_Advis
ory_Com
mission_A
rchive_Pa
ge.aspx
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15 Sort
Order
Mode of
Outreac
h
Target of
Outreach
Summary
of
response/
attendance
Summary of
comments receive
d
Summary of
comments
not accepted
and reasons
URL (If
applicable
)
2 Public
Meeting
Housing
Advisory
Commissio
n (HAC)
representa
tives
February
7,
members
of the HAC
discussed
the Annual
Action
Plan.
HAC members
reviewed and
discussed the
AAP at its
February 7, 2019
meeting. No
comments were
received.
N/A
https://ww
w.cityofbe
rkeley.info
/Housing_
Advisory_
Commissi
on/
3 Public
Meeting
Housing
Advisory
Commissio
n (HAC)
representa
tives
March 7 &
13,
members
of the HAC
discussed
the Annual
Action
Plan.
HAC members
reviewed and
discussed the
AAP at its March
7, 2019 meeting.
Comments and
questions
pertaining to the
AAP focused on
the process and
understanding
draft
recommendations
. At the
subsequent
special meeting
seventeen
members of the
public spoke.
Community
concerns included
funding
organizations
located in south
Berkeley,
particularly two
organizations
providing
workforce
development and
housing
rehabilitation
services.
N/A.
https://ww
w.cityofbe
rkeley.info
/Housing_
Advisory_
Commissi
on/
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16 Sort
Order
Mode of
Outreac
h
Target of
Outreach
Summary
of
response/
attendance
Summary of
comments receive
d
Summary of
comments
not accepted
and reasons
URL (If
applicable
)
4 Public
Hearing
Minorities
Non-
English
Speaking -
Specify
other
language:
Spanish
and
Mandarin
Persons
with
disabilities
Residents
of Public
and
Assisted
Housing
Low
income
Berkeley
Residents
This Public
Hearing
was held
at the April
23, 2019,
City of
Berkeley
Council
Special
Meeting.
Public comment
included
testimony from
twenty seven
individuals
concerned about
services for low-
income persons
including: housing
rehabilitation for
homeowners,
deaf and disability
related services
especially for
homeless
persons, health
care and
supportive
services for
formerly
homeless
persons, general
homeless
services, legal
services for
survivors of
domestic
violence,
programming for
youth graduating
from Berkeley
High School, and
more
transparency
around monitoring
agencies and the
City’s budget
process.
N/A.
https://ww
w.cityofbe
rkeley.info
/Clerk/City
_Council/
City_Cou
ncil__Age
nda_Inde
x.aspx
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17 Sort
Order
Mode of
Outreac
h
Target of
Outreach
Summary
of
response/
attendance
Summary of
comments receive
d
Summary of
comments
not accepted
and reasons
URL (If
applicable
)
5. Public
Meeting
Housing
Advisory
Commissio
n (HAC)
representa
tives
July 11,
members
of the HAC
discussed
the
Amendme
nt to the
Annual
Action
Plan.
Comments included
encouraging
homeless persons
were included in
the outreach about
the public hearing.
N/A
https://ww
w.cityofber
keley.info/
Housing_A
dvisory_Co
mmission/
6. Public
Hearing
Minorities
Non-
English
Speaking -
Specify
other
language:
Spanish
and
Mandarin
Persons
with
disabilities
Residents
of Public
and
Assisted
Housing
Berkeley
Residents
July 23
Council
Public
Hearing to
discuss
the
Amendme
nt to the
Annual
Action
Plan
None. N/A
https://ww
w.cityofber
keley.info/
Clerk/City_
Council/Cit
y_Council_
_Agenda_I
ndex.aspx
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18 Sort
Order
Mode of
Outreac
h
Target of
Outreach
Summary
of
response/
attendance
Summary of
comments receive
d
Summary of
comments
not accepted
and reasons
URL (If
applicable
)
7. Public
Hearing
(Virtual)
Non-
targeted/br
oad
community
The
February
9, 2021
virtual
public
hearing
had over a
hundred
persons in
attendanc
e and five
members
of the
public
commente
d in front
of
Berkeley
City
Council.
No written
comments
received.
Comments
included support
for the rental
assistance
program and
testing and
vaccine program,
especially for
immigrant
populations.
N/A https://ww
w.cityofbe
rkeley.info
/Clerk/City
_Council/
City_Cou
ncil__Age
nda_Inde
x.aspx
8. To be
added –
Housing
Advisor
y
Committ
ee
9. To be
added –
Public
hearing/
City
Council
Table 4 – Citizen Participation Outreach
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19 Expected Resources
AP-15 Expected Resources – 91.220(c)(1,2)
Introduction
The City will receive $3,631,791 in federal Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) funds comprised of $2,667,120 in CDBG, $737,273 in HOME and $227,398 in ESG funds. Additionally, the City will add $250,531 in CDBG Program Income and $1,166,259 in unused CDBG carry over and $20,000 (projected) in HOME Program Income to these amounts.
Anticipated Resources
Progra
m
Sourc
e of
Funds
Uses of
Funds
Expected Amount Available Year 1 Expect
ed
Amoun
t
Availab
le
Remain
der of
ConPla
n
$
Narrative
Description
Annual
Allocatio
n: $
Progra
m
Income
: $
Prior
Year
Resourc
es: $
Total:
$
CDBG
public
-
feder
al
Acquisition
Admin and
Planning
Economic
Developmen
t
Housing
Public
Improvemen
ts
Public
Services
$2,667,1
20 $250,5
31 $1,166,2
59 $4,083,9
10 $4,083
,910
CDBG funds
are allocated
to public
services,
housing
services and
rehabilitation,
and public
facility
improvements.
The City of
Berkeley does
not currently
use CDBG
funds for
economic
development.
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20 Progra
m
Sourc
e of
Funds
Uses of
Funds
Expected Amount Available Year 1 Expect
ed
Amoun
t
Availab
le
Remain
der of
ConPla
n
$
Narrative
Description
Annual
Allocatio
n: $
Progra
m
Income
: $
Prior
Year
Resourc
es: $
Total:
$
HOME
public
-
feder
al
Acquisition
Homebuyer
assistance
Homeowner
rehab
Multifamily
rental new
construction
Multifamily
rental rehab
New
construction
for
ownership
TBRA
$737,27
3 $20,00
0 (projec
ted)
$0
$757,27
3 $757,2
73 The City
allocates 10%
of the HOME
allocation to
administration,
up to 5% for
CHDO
operating
costs, and
85% to the
City Housing
Trust Fund.
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21 Progra
m
Sourc
e of
Funds
Uses of
Funds
Expected Amount Available Year 1 Expect
ed
Amoun
t
Availab
le
Remain
der of
ConPla
n
$
Narrative
Description
Annual
Allocatio
n: $
Progra
m
Income
: $
Prior
Year
Resourc
es: $
Total:
$
ESG
public
-
feder
al
Conversion
and rehab
for
transitional
housing
Financial
Assistance
Overnight
shelter
Rapid re-
housing
(rental
assistance)
Rental
Assistance
Services
Transitional
housing
Emergency
Shelter and
Street
Outreach
227,398
0 0
227,398
227,39
8 The City of
Berkeley uses
ESG funds for
Rapid
Rehousing,
Emergency
Shelter and
Street
Outreach for
literally
homeless
individuals and
families. A
small portion
of the ESG
funds are used
to support the
County-wide
HMIS system.
The City
allocates 7.5%
of the
allocation to
Planning and
Admin.
Table 5 - Expected Resources – Priority Table
Explain how federal funds will leverage those additional resources (private, state and local funds), including a description of how matching requirements will be satisfied
Most of the housing and community services programs described in the Consolidated Plan will continue to be delivered by nonprofit community based organizations. The City contracts with a wide range of housing and service providers using CDBG, HOME, ESG, Community Services Attachment 3
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22 Block Grant (CSBG), General Fund, and other sources of funding. These organizations leverage significant financial and in-kind support from individual community members, foundations, and private organizations that help meet the needs identified in this plan. In addition to leveraging at the individual agency level, the City has historically matched the investment of CDBG, HOME, and ESG dollars with the investment of General Funds. Typically, over two-thirds of the funding for community agency programs comes from General Funds. The City meets the HOME 25 percent match requirement and has accumulated over $4 million in excess match by investing local funds in HOME eligible affordable housing projects. The City meets the dollar for dollar match requirements for the ESG program by allocating General Funds to various homeless services providers. In PY17 and PY18 two shelter programs received a total of approximately $600,000 in City General Funds.
If appropriate, describe publically owned land or property located within the jurisdiction that may be used to address the needs identified in the plan The City has long-term leases of City-owned property with non-profit organizations that address the needs identified. Programs currently operating in leased City-owned properties include:
• Dorothy Day House Homeless Shelter;
• BOSS’ Harrison House Shelter for Homeless men, women and families; • BOSS’ MASC – a homeless daytime Drop-In Center;
• BOSS’ Sankofa House – transitional housing for homeless families; and • Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center– Drop-in services for homeless families.
The City has entered into a Disposition and Development Agreement with the BRIDGE Housing Corporation for the development of City-owned Berkeley Way parking lot as a site for permanent supportive housing, replacement emergency shelter, and permanent affordable housing. BRIDGE is working in collaboration with the Berkeley Food and Housing Project, a local homeless serving organization. The Berkeley Way parking lot is nearly one acre in size and in a central location near the Downtown Berkeley BART station and many nearby amenities. The City has provided $3.9M in predevelopment funding and has reserved an additional $23.5M for the project’s development. In 2017, the project received its land use entitlements for 89 units of affordable housing, 53 units of permanent supportive housing, and 44 shelter/transitional beds. The City continues to work closely with the development team to secure full financing for this project.
Discussion
Not applicable.
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23 Annual Goals and Objectives
AP-20 Annual Goals and Objectives
Goals Summary Information
Sort
Orde
r
Goal
Name
Star
t
Year
End
Year Category Geograp
hic Area
Needs
Addresse
d
Funding Goal Outcome
Indicator
1 Affordabl
e
Housing
Supply
and
Quality
201
5 201
9 Affordable
Housing
BERKEL
EY
Affordable
Housing
CDBG:
$2,753,65
7$2,903,6
58 HOME:
$633,431
Rental units
constructed: 23
Rental Housing
Rehabilitated: 49
Household
Housing Unit
Homeowner
Housing
Rehabilitated:
4245
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24 Sort
Orde
r
Goal
Name
Star
t
Year
End
Year Category Geograp
hic Area
Needs
Addresse
d
Funding Goal Outcome
Indicator
2 Improve
Public
Facilities
and
Public
Services
201
5 201
9 Non-
Housing
Communit
y
Developm
ent
BERKEL
EY
Non-
Housing
Communit
y
Developm
ent
&
Homeless
ness
CDBG:
$756,829
$606,829
Public Facility or
Infrastructure
Activities other
than
Low/Moderate
Income Housing
Benefit: 324300
Persons
Assisted
Public service
activities other
than
Low/Moderate
Income Housing
Benefit: 1,042
Persons
Assisted
Homeless
Person
Overnight
Shelter: 115
Persons
Assisted
3 Homeles
s
Preventio
n and
Rapid
Re-
Housing
201
5 201
9 Homeless BERKEL
EY
Homeless
ness
ESG:
$227,398
Tenant-based
rental assistance
/ Rapid
Rehousing: 10
Households
Assisted
Emergency
Shelter and
Street Outreach:
972 Persons
Assisted
Table 6 – Goals Summary
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25 Goal Descriptions
1 Goal Name Affordable Housing Supply and Quality
Goal
Description
CDBG and HOME funds are used to support new affordable housing, rehabilitating existing affordable housing, funding single family rehabilitation for seniors and the disabled, and other housing services, such as loan servicing.
2 Goal Name Improve Public Facilities and Public Services Goal
Description
Programs funded under this project serve people who are homeless and people facing housing discrimination. These projects will assist approximately 1,575 people who are homeless and 70 low-income households facing housing discrimination. Additionally, funding is typically allocated to community facility improvements facilitated the City of Berkeley. The City will continue supporting renovations to the Berkeley Adult Mental Health Clinic in PY19 but PY19 public facility and earlier unused funds will be shifted to a housing rehabilitation project. Substantial Amendment #3 will add funds to a public facility project with Insight Housing’s Dwight Way Shelter.
3 Goal Name Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing
Goal
Description
ESG funds will be used for Rapid-Rehousing financial assistance, Emergency Shelter, Street Outreach and to support the county-wide Homeless Management Information System (HMIS). Additionally, the COB will utilize the maximum amount for administration activities.
Table 7 – Goal Descriptions
Estimate the number of extremely low-income, low-income, and moderate-income families to whom the jurisdiction will provide affordable housing as defined by HOME 91.215(b):
During PY19, Satellite Affordable Housing Associates will have the Grayson project in construction. Occupancy is expected by July 2019. Grayson will include 22 affordable units and one unrestricted manager’s unit. Six of the 22 units will be reserved for households earning up to 60% AMI (low), four at up to 50% AMI (very low), three at up to 40% AMI (very low), and nine at up to 30% AMI (extremely low). Of the total, 9 are supported by the HOME funds.
Depending the outcome of funding applications during the winter and spring of 2019, BRIDGE Housing Corporation and the Berkeley Food and Housing Project’s Berkeley Way project (53 extremely low income and 89 low income units) and Satellite Affordable Housing Associate’s Oxford Senior Apartments (7 extremely low income and 27 low income units) may go into construction as soon as December 2019.
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26 Proposed rehabilitation work includes two affordable housing properties: Rosewood Manor (35 units) and Lorin Station (14 units). Both Lorin Station and Rosewood Manor are owned and operated by the South Berkeley Neighborhood Development Corporation (SBNDC). Both properties are over 30 years old and are in need of major rehabilitation. CDBG funds will be used for emergency plumbing and roofing repairs.
Attachment 3
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PY 2019
27 Projects
AP-35 Projects – 91.220(d)
Introduction
With its CDBG, HOME, and ESG funds, the City of Berkeley will fund eligible projects in the following categories: housing development, rehabilitation and services projects, public services, public/community facility improvement projects, emergency shelter grant programs, program planning and administration, and the Housing Trust Fund.
Projects
# Project Name
1 City of Berkeley Planning and Administration
2 Single Family Rehabilitation Programs
3 Public Services
4 Housing Services
5 Community Facility Rehabilitation
6 Housing Trust Fund
7 ESG19 - City of Berkeley Rapid Rehousing , Emergency Shelter, Street Outreach and HMIS
Table 8 - Project Information
Describe the reasons for allocation priorities and any obstacles to addressing underserved needs
The City continues to funds activities that have been identified as a need.
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28 AP-38 Project Summary
Project Summary Information
1 Project Name City of Berkeley Planning and Administration Target Area BERKELEY
Goals Supported
Affordable Housing Supply and Quality
Improve Public Facilities and Public Services
Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing
Needs Addressed
Affordable Housing
Homelessness
Non-Housing Community Development
Funding CDBG: $573,424
HOME: $75,727
Description The project will fund City staff to plan and administer CDBG and HOME projects.
Target Date N/A
Estimate the number and
type of families that will
benefit from the
proposed activities
N/A
Location Description N/A
Planned Activities Information about the planned activities is included in Section AP-38 Project Summaries.
2 Project Name Single Family Rehabilitation Programs
Target Area BERKELEY
Goals Supported Affordable Housing Supply and Quality
Needs Addressed Affordable Housing
Funding CDBG: $767,708$767,708
Description
Activities related to single family rehabilitation efforts will be funded under this project. These projects will cover health and safety improvements as well as accessibility improvements such as the installation of ramps/lifts for low income homeowners and renters.
Target Date 6/30/2020
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29 Estimate the number and
type of families that will
benefit from the
proposed activities
45 Households.
Location Description Various locations within the City of Berkeley.
Planned Activities Activities include health and safety, accessibility, and energy efficiency improvements.
3 Project Name Public Services
Target Area BERKELEY
Goals Supported Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Needs Addressed Homelessness
Funding CDBG: $453,921
Description
Funds will be used to provide 1) housing navigation services to chronically homeless individuals through Berkeley’s Coordinated Entry system, 2) emergency shelter, and 3) fair housing services.
Target Date 6/30/2020
Estimate the number and
type of families that will
benefit from the
proposed activities
1,157 households are expected to be served through these activities.
Location Description Berkeley
Planned Activities
Bay Area Community Services will operate Berkeley's Coordinated Entry System which will screen, conduct intakes, and provide housing navigation services to approximately 972 people. Berkeley Food and Housing Program will provide emergency shelter to approximately 115 adult homeless men. Eden Council for Hope and Opportunity will provide outreach, training, fair housing counseling services to up to 70 households, investigation of an estimated 25 fair housing complaints, 10 tenant/landlord mediations, and 10 fair housing testing/audits with follow-up training for non-compliant property owners. 4 Project Name Housing Services
Target Area BERKELEY
Goals Supported Affordable Housing Supply and Quality
Needs Addressed Affordable Housing
Funding CDBG: $70,008
Description City staff provide loan services to support single family rehabilitation, housing trust fund projects, and other federally funded housing related activities.
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30 Target Date 6/30/2020
Estimate the number and
type of families that will
benefit from the
proposed activities
The project will serve approximately 106 active housing rehabilitation loans.
Location Description Various locations within the City of Berkeley.
Planned Activities
Services provided under this project will include accounting, processing loan payments and loan payoff demands, deeds of reconveyance, lien releases and loan subordination requests, collections, personal financial analysis and structuring of temporary repayment agreements.
5 Project Name Community Facility Rehabilitation
Target Area BERKELEY
Goals Supported Improve Public Facilities and Public Services Needs Addressed Non-Housing Community Development
Funding CDBG: $152,908$302,908
Description Activities that fund the rehabilitation of public facilities are funded under this project.
Target Date 6/30/2020
Estimate the number and
type of families that will
benefit from the
proposed activities
It is projected that improved community facility improvements provided by the City of Berkeley administered program will benefit a minimum of 300 people at the City of Berkeley Mental Health Clinic. Substantial Amendment #3 will add funds to a public facility project with Insight Housing’s Dwight Way Shelter serving an annual population of 73XX.
Location Description Various locations within the City of Berkeley.
Planned Activities
Activities include improving community facilities by funding substantial rehabilitation to applicants of the City administered Community Facility Improvement Program. The City of Berkeley’s Adult Mental Health Clinic is currently under construction and will come to completion in PY20 and serves some of the City’s lowest income and most vulnerable populations. Substantial Amendment #3 will add funds to a public facility project with Insight Housing’s Dwight Way Shelter for homeless persons in Berkeley. As of time of this substantial amendment the project is currently under construction and will be using public facility funds from several years to complete the project. 6 Project Name Housing Trust Fund
Target Area BERKELEY
Goals Supported Affordable Housing Supply and Quality
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31 Needs Addressed Affordable Housing
Funding CDBG: $1,915,942
HOME: $681,546
Description Activities that provide funding for City staff in support of projects funded with City of Berkeley Housing Trust Fund dollars, includes funding for projects and CHDO operating funds.
Target Date 6/30/2020
Estimate the number and
type of families that will
benefit from the
proposed activities
During PY19, Grayson Street Apartments (23 units, 9 of which are supported by HOME funds) will be under construction. This project will likely be completed in PY19.
Funding is amended to support substantial rehabilitation of the 35-unit Rosewood Manor and 14-unit Lorin Station Apartments.
Location Description Citywide
Planned Activities City staff actively facilitate development, rehabilitation and/or preservation of affordable housing through working with developers, other city staff, lenders and other public agencies for the acquisition and rehabilitation of multi-family housing.
Funding is amended to support substantial rehabilitation of the 35-unit Rosewood Manor and 14-unit Lorin Station Apartments.
7 Project Name ESG19 - City of Berkeley Rapid Rehousing, Emergency Shelter, Street Outreach and HMIS
Target Area BERKELEY
Goals Supported Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Needs Addressed Homelessness
Funding ESG: $227,398
Description ESG funds will be used for Rapid Re-Housing, Emergency Shelter, Street Outreach, HMIS and City staff to plan and administer the program.
Target Date 6/30/2020
Estimate the number and
type of families that will
benefit from the
proposed activities
10 households will be served with rapid rehousing financial assistance. 972 persons will be assisted with Emergency Shelter/Street Outreach.
Location Description Various locations.
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PY 2019
32 Planned Activities ESG funds will be used to provide financial assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services to rapidly re-house approximately 10 households, support 972 people in Emergency Shelter/Street Outreach activities.
Table 8.1 – Project Summary Information
Attachment 3
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33 AP-50 Geographic Distribution – 91.220(f)
Description of the geographic areas of the entitlement (including areas of low-income and minority concentration) where assistance will be directed As discussed in section MA-50 of the City’s current Consolidated Plan the City does not have areas of low-income or minority concentrations and therefore does not allocate federal funds geographically.
Geographic Distribution
Target Area Percentage of Funds
BERKELEY 100
Table 9 - Geographic Distribution
Rationale for the priorities for allocating investments geographically Not applicable.
Discussion
Not applicable.
Attachment 3
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34 Affordable Housing
AP-55 Affordable Housing – 91.220(g)
Introduction
This section includes HOME-funded units only. Unit counts are broken out two ways: by population served and by type of housing provided. The table below includes information for Grayson Street Apartments, which will be funded with HOME funds in PY19. The City’s contract containing HOME funds was executed in November 2017 and construction completion is expected in 2019. The total number of units will equal 23.
One Year Goals for the Number of Households to be
Supported
Homeless 0
Non-Homeless 0
Special-Needs 9
Total 9
Table 10 - One Year Goals for Affordable Housing by Support Requirement
One Year Goals for the Number of Households Supported
Through
Rental Assistance 0
The Production of New Units 9
Rehab of Existing Units 0
Acquisition of Existing Units 0
Total 9
Table 11 - One Year Goals for Affordable Housing by Support Type
Discussion
Not applicable.
Attachment 3
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PY 2019
35 AP-60 Public Housing – 91.220(h)
Introduction
The Berkeley Housing Authority (BHA) is not a department of the City of Berkeley. BHA Board members are appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council. The Berkeley Housing Authority does not have any public housing.
Actions planned during the next year to address the needs to public housing Not applicable.
Actions to encourage public housing residents to become more involved in management and participate in homeownership
Not applicable.
If the PHA is designated as troubled, describe the manner in which financial assistance will be provided or other assistance
Not applicable.
Discussion
Not applicable.
Attachment 3
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PY 2019
36 AP-65 Homeless and Other Special Needs Activities – 91.220(i) Introduction
Describe the jurisdictions one-year goals and actions for reducing and ending homelessness including reaching out to homeless persons (especially unsheltered persons) and assessing their individual needs
The City will continue to operate six Shelter Plus Care (S+C) grants and the locally-funded Square One program, providing rental assistance to a minimum of 235 households annually. This includes the City’s Housing for Older Adults Project (HOAP) S+C program which provides rental subsidies through the City’s Aging Services Division and the COACH grant, which provides rental subsidies and targets people who are chronically homeless. The COACH grant will be expanded in PY19 to serve an additional 53 households. New S+C households continue to be prioritized through Alameda County’s Home Stretch registry, a County-wide centralized system which prioritizes people who are chronically homeless and high need with permanent supportive housing opportunities.
During PY19, the City will continue to implement its Coordinated Entry System (CES). It will also participate in EveryOne Home's implementation process of expanding the CES countywide. Outreach and assessing individual needs are important components of the CES and will be expanded in PY19.
In PY17, the City was awarded a three year grant from the County of Alameda to increases services to literally homeless people. The City subcontracted the housing navigation and placement services to Berkeley Food and Housing Project, the CES operator for the northern part of Alameda County. The City also partnered with the cities of Albany and Emeryville. The project is expected to screen and assess over 1,000 people and serve with intensive housing navigation and support a minimum of 170 people.
Addressing the emergency shelter and transitional housing needs of homeless persons The City will continue to provide funding for shelter and transitional housing. In PY17, the City expanded the number of year-round shelter beds from 118 to 148 year-round by increasing its funding to the YEAH! shelter which serves 18-24 year olds. The year-round beds are accessed through the City of Berkeley’s Coordinated Entry System that operates 9 a.m. - noon and 1-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. A second shelter reservation period occurs from 7-8 p.m. to fill available BOSS and BFHP shelter beds that are unoccupied.
In addition to the year-round shelter beds, the City funds a winter shelter program. In the past, the winter shelter was activated when inclement weather was forecast (temperature expected to reach 40 or below or rain). The past two seasons, the City has funded a nightly shelter from December to mid-April adding approximately 75-90 beds. In PY18, the expanded winter shelter continued its operations as a nightly shelter serving 56 each night. Depending on funding it may continue to operate as a year round shelter to expand the number of year-round shelter beds to more than 200.
Helping homeless persons (especially chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth) make the transition to permanent housing and independent living, including shortening the period of time that individuals and Attachment 3
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37 families experience homelessness, facilitating access for homeless individuals and families to affordable housing units, and preventing individuals and families who were recently homeless from becoming homeless again
The City of Berkeley has encouraged its network of providers of services to the homeless to focus their efforts on rapidly re-housing their clients. The City has centralized its funded case management services at the CES to allow for ongoing case management regardless of the person's housing status or enrollment at a particular shelter.
In addition, the City is funding Housing Specialist positions whose only role is to identify, cultivate and maintain partnerships with property owners. These case management and housing opportunities will assist all literally homeless clients in Berkeley but will be primarily targeted at individuals and families who are chronically homeless and have multiple barriers.
In PY17, to better serve its homeless families, the City partnered with the City of Oakland and Oakland homeless service providers to expand its Family Front Door, to include homeless families from Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville. Because families often have different service and housing needs than homeless people who are single, this partnership with family focused providers has improved access to resources for families including shelter and transitional housing opportunities.
Helping low-income individuals and families avoid becoming homeless, especially extremely low- income individuals and families and those who are: being discharged from publicly funded institutions and systems of care (such as health care facilities, mental health facilities, foster care and other youth facilities, and corrections programs and institutions); or, receiving assistance from public or private agencies that address housing, health, social services, employment, education, or youth needs.
The Coordinated Entry System will provide people who are at imminent risk of becoming homeless (HUD Homeless definition (Category 2) with problem solving support to retain current housing or to locate another housing placement. This will include mediation with family members and friends to keep individuals and families from entering the shelter system. Additionally, in PY17 and PY18 the City allocated $832,500 to assist permanently and temporarily housed Berkeley residents from being evicted, which includes rental assistance and eviction defense.
Alameda County has mental health, foster youth, health care, and corrections discharge policies intended to prevent discharges of individuals from these systems into homelessness, described in detail in the Consolidated Plan. The City will continue to participate in countywide efforts to reduce discharges into homelessness.
Discussion
The City of Berkeley’s CES provides a single point of entry for people who are homeless to be screened and assessed for a range of City funded homeless programs, including emergency shelters, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and rapid rehousing services. All contracted service providers report outcomes based on the countywide outcome standards developed by Everyone Home, in order to inform future adjustments to the service system.
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38 AP-75 Barriers to affordable housing – 91.220(j)
Introduction:
Actions it planned to remove or ameliorate the negative effects of public policies that serve as barriers to affordable housing such as land use controls, tax policies affecting land, zoning ordinances, building codes, fees and charges, growth limitations, and policies affecting the return on residential investment
In November 2018, Berkeley voters passed a $135M bond measure (Measure O) to support affordable housing.
The measure as written allows flexibility in identifying priorities. The City is working to determine how this new source of local funds will be used, which will be a major activity during PY19.
The City of Berkeley continues to work on implementation of numerous facets of the Council-adopted Housing Action Plan, which contains a set of actions targeted at preserving existing affordable housing, eliminating barriers, and increasing affordable housing production. For example, the Plan requires staff to “examine and eliminate barriers to developing student housing and senior housing” and “create specific per acre density standards, including standards for projects include density bonus units”.
During the last year, the City made progress in reducing barriers to building Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), so- called “granny flats” designed to fit into back yards of parcels with existing single-family homes, to increase housing density. Specifically, Berkeley:
• Updated its ordinance to conform to state law easing ADU development restrictions. • Went beyond minimum state requirements by removing off-street parking requirements • Removed restrictions around the relationship of the size between existing primary dwelling units and proposed new ADUs
• Removed development standards which limited the allowed locations for ADU entrances • Allowed average height calculations for ADUs in the Hillside Overlay district • Increase allowed height limits for ADUs with flat roofs from 10 feet to 14 feet
Another change to promote affordable housing production removed barriers in the R1-A multifamily housing district, to provide certainty on the size of a second “primary” unit proposed for a parcel with an existing unit.
Beyond the above, the City continues to progress in its Zoning Ordinance Revision Project, which will create new baseline zoning which is easier to understand and administer. A large part of this project involves eliminating code inconsistencies which currently present added challenges to proposed new development. The City also initiated modifications to the Density Bonus section of the Zoning ordinance, which are proposed for City Council adoption in January 2019. These changes will bring the City’s density bonus regulations into conformity with state law meant to ease development restrictions, and to clarify City requirements in order to provide developers greater certainty, with resulting time/cost savings for development proposals.
Discussion
Not applicable.
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39 AP-85 Other Actions – 91.220(k)
Introduction:
The City of Berkeley uses a range of strategies to address the housing, homeless, and community development goals identified in the Consolidated Plan. This section discusses actions planned to foster and maintain affordable housing, to reduce lead-based paint hazards, to reduce the number of poverty-level families in Berkeley, and to coordinate activities in these areas with other entities.
Actions planned to address obstacles to meeting underserved needs One of Berkeley’s major obstacles to meeting underserved needs is the limited amount of federal, state, and local resources available given the diversity of needs in the community and high cost of housing in the Bay Area. The City of Berkeley will continue to pursue new State and Federal resources as available to meet underserved needs.
Actions planned to foster and maintain affordable housing The City has several programs which foster and maintain affordable housing in Berkeley:
• Rent Stabilization Program. In 1980, Berkeley residents passed the Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance. The Ordinance regulates rent levels for approximately 21,000 residential rental units in Berkeley and provides tenants, in more than 26,000 units, protection against unwarranted evictions helping to maintain affordable housing and preserve community diversity. • Affordable Housing Mitigation Fee (AHMF). The City requires developers of new market rate rental housing to pay a fee per unit or to provide 20% as many income and rent restricted units—split evenly between those affordable to households earning 50% or less or 80% or less of the area median income—in lieu of the fee. Fee income goes into the City’s Housing Trust Fund to support affordable housing development. In 2016, the City adopted an ordinance requiring that certain units provided under this program are reserved for tenants with Section 8 and Shelter Plus Care. • Condominium Conversion Ordinance (CCO). The CCO governs the conversion of rental apartments and tenancy-in-common buildings to condominiums, and other types of mutual or cooperative housing. It requires owners to pay a mitigation fee. Fee revenue goes into the City’s Housing Trust Fund. • Commercial Linkage Fee. The Affordable Housing Mitigation Program was approved on April 20, 1993. It imposed fees on commercial new construction in which the newly constructed gross floor area is over 7,500 square feet.
• Housing Trust Fund (HTF). The City of Berkeley created its HTF in 1990 to help develop and preserve below-market-rate housing. The HTF pools funds for affordable housing construction from a variety of sources with different requirements, makes them available through one single application process to local developers, then monitors development and operation of the funded housing. • Inclusionary Housing Ordinance for ownership housing. The ordinance requires developers of market rate ownership housing to include affordable ownership units or pay a fee. • Mortgage Credit Certificate. MCC is a federal income tax credit that provides qualified low-income homebuyers a tax credit worth up to 15 percent of their annual mortgage interest paid on their home loan.
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40 MCC recipients adjust their federal income tax withholding, which increases their take-home pay, making monthly mortgage payments more affordable. The City participates in the Alameda County MCC program. • Senior and Disabled Loan Rehab Program. HHCS administers the program as an effort to preserve the City’s housing stock and to assist low- and moderate-income senior and disabled homeowners, funded by CDBG and CalHOME. The applicants receive a zero interest loan, secured by a deed of trust on their home, which is repaid when title to the property changes hands, normally as a result of the sale of the property or inheritance by the owner’s heirs.
Actions planned to reduce lead-based paint hazards
The City will continue to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program in its Senior and Disabled Rehabilitation Loan Program.
The City of Berkeley Public Health Division and the Alameda County Lead Poisoning Prevention Program will work together to increase awareness and knowledge about lead poisoning prevention in Berkeley including providing lead-safe painting classes, in-home consultations, presentations, educational materials, and other services.
Rebuilding Together will work with the City of Berkeley and Alameda County Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs to increase awareness of lead issues among their clients and volunteers and to incorporate lead safe work practices into their activities.
The City of Berkeley Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program collaborates with the Berkeley Health, Housing & Community Services Department’s State lead-certified Risk Assessor/Inspector, Project Designer, and Project Monitor. The Alameda County Healthy Homes Department also has a HUD Lead Hazard Control grant to remediate lead hazards in approximately 4 qualifying Berkeley housing units that are vacant, or occupied by a low-income household with either a child under 6, a pregnant woman, or a child under 6 years who regularly visits. Berkeley’s program also provides case management services to families with children who have elevated blood lead levels.
Services range from Public Health Nursing case management for children with blood lead levels above 15 µg/dL to health education for children with levels between 5-14 µg/dL.
Actions planned to reduce the number of poverty-level families The City funds a wide variety of social service programs designed to assist households with poverty level incomes.
These programs include childcare and a range of services for special needs populations, which are outlined in other sections of this Consolidated Plan. This section will highlight the City’s strategies to increase livable wage employment opportunities by supporting related community services and working with public and private regional partners. Strategies include:
• Funding and refinement of anti-poverty programs provided by community-based organizations and by the City.
• Community agency contracts are outlined in the Annual Action Plan. • Collaborate actively with CalWORKS (TANF) and Workforce Investment Act programs. • Continue implementation of the City of Berkeley’s Living Wage Ordinance. Foster regional coordination on Attachment 3
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• Minimum Wage in Berkeley is currently $15 and will increase incrementally based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the San Francisco Bay Area every July 1. The City’s Paid Sick Leave Ordinance was adopted in 2016 and went into effect October 1, 2017 to provide enhanced paid sick leave entitlements beyond what is required by state law.
The City will contract with local workforce development programs to provide training, education and job placement for low income, under-employed, and unemployed residents:
• Inter-City Services provides employment, training, and education and continues to serve veterans as funded under the Governor’s 15 percent Discretionary pool of Workforce Investment Opportunity Act (WIOA) funds. • Biotech Partners operates the Biotech Academy at Berkeley High School, targeting youth from under- represented populations in the fields of science and biotechnology (African American, Latino, South East Asian, female and low-income youth) and who may be at risk of not graduating from high school. • The Bread Project provides training in culinary arts and bakery production, and includes the formerly incarcerated and refugees as their target population. They operate a social enterprise (wholesale bakery) that creates opportunities for trainees to obtain crucial on-the-job experience. • Rising Sun Energy Center’s Green Energy Training Services (GETS) provides pre-apprenticeship training for the building and construction trades and careers in green and clean technologies, including solar installation, through classroom and hands-on training. Their training calendar includes women-only cohorts in order to increase the number of women in the building and construction trades. Rising Sun also operates the California Youth Energy Services (CYES) program funded by the CA Public Utilities Commission, providing summer jobs for young people conducting residential energy audits. • The City's anti-poverty strategy continues to be closely tied to the funding of over 50 community agencies to provide services as described above to enable people in poverty to attain self-sufficiency, support at-risk youth to succeed in school and graduate, and protect the health and safety of low income people.
Actions planned to develop institutional structure
During the next year, the City of Berkeley will continue to coordinate the housing and community services activities within the department through regular senior staff meetings and coordination on specific topics.
Actions planned to enhance coordination between public and private housing and social service agencies
City staff will also continue to participate in the implementation of Everyone Home, the countywide plan to end homelessness. Everyone Home spearheads Alameda County’s Continuum of Care. Staff will continue to participate in the initiative’s Leadership Board, which includes most public funders of housing and homeless services in the county, as well as leadership from key community based organizations. Leadership Board membership helps coordination efforts across the county. Staff also participates in other committees composed of other funders (such as Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services and the Social Services Agency) as well as many community Attachment 3
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Recent countywide collaboration efforts include the 2019 Point in Time homeless survey, count and report and the countywide implementation of CES.
Discussion:
The majority of Berkeley’s activities furthering the goals of the Annual Action Plan are provided by community agency partners. This will continue to be the case in PY19.
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AP-90 Program Specific Requirements – 91.220(l)(1,2,4)
Introduction:
Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG)
Reference 24 CFR 91.220(l)(1)
Projects planned with all CDBG funds expected to be available during the year are identified in the Projects Table.
The following identifies program income that is available for use that is included in projects to be carried out.
1. The total amount of program income that will have been received before the start of the next program year and that has not yet been reprogrammed $250,531
2. The amount of proceeds from section 108 loan guarantees that will be used during the year to address the priority needs and specific objectives identified in the grantee's strategic plan. 0
3. The amount of surplus funds from urban renewal settlements 0
4. The amount of any grant funds returned to the line of credit for which the planned use has not been included in a prior statement or plan 0
5. The amount of income from float-funded activities 0
Total Program Income: $250,531
Other CDBG Requirements
1. The amount of urgent need activities 0
2. The estimated percentage of CDBG funds that will be used for activities that benefit persons of low and moderate income. Overall Benefit - A consecutive period of one, two or three years may be used to determine that a minimum overall benefit of 70% of CDBG funds is used to benefit persons of low and moderate income. Specify the years covered that include this Annual Action Plan. 98.00%
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Reference 24 CFR 91.220(l)(2)
1. A description of other forms of investment being used beyond those identified in Section 92.205 is as follows:
The City of Berkeley uses no forms of investment other than ones described in §92.205(b), which describes eligible activities for HOME funds.
2. A description of the guidelines that will be used for resale or recapture of HOME funds when used for homebuyer activities as required in 92.254, is as follows:
No homeownership activities are anticipated for PY19.
3. A description of the guidelines for resale or recapture that ensures the affordability of units acquired with HOME funds? See 24 CFR 92.254(a)(4) are as follows:
No homeownership activities are anticipated for PY19.
4. Plans for using HOME funds to refinance existing debt secured by multifamily housing that is rehabilitated with HOME funds along with a description of the refinancing guidelines required that will be used under 24 CFR
92.206(b), are as follows:
The City’s policy is not to use HOME funds to pay off outstanding debt on single family or multifamily housing development projects. The City may commit HOME funds to projects that include refinancing with other sources of funds.
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Reference 91.220(l)(4)
1. Include written standards for providing ESG assistance (may include as attachment) The City, Everyone Home and Countywide representatives are in the process of updating the ESG manual. The most recent version was attached to the 2015 Consolidated Plan.
2. If the Continuum of Care has established centralized or coordinated assessment system that meets HUD requirements, describe that centralized or coordinated assessment system.
The Alameda County Continuum of Care has initiated its planning process to establish its coordinated assessment system. The countywide system is now being implemented through five regional Housing Resource Centers.
3. Identify the process for making sub-awards and describe how the ESG allocation available to private nonprofit organizations (including community and faith-based organizations).
The City of Berkeley was allocated $227,398 in ESG funding for PY19. The City of Berkeley will utilize the maximum amount possible for administration (7.5 percent of the grant) and allocate funds to support the County-wide Homeless Management Information System. The remaining $203,667 will be allocated to Bay Area Community Services, the operator of the City of Berkeley’s Coordinated Entry System (CES). The CES staff will screen, assess and prioritize homeless clients for rapid rehousing assistance with supporting housing retention services. ESG funds will also support Emergency Shelter and Street Outreach through the CES.
4. If the jurisdiction is unable to meet the homeless participation requirement in 24 CFR 576.405(a), the jurisdiction must specify its plan for reaching out to and consulting with homeless or formerly homeless individuals in considering policies and funding decisions regarding facilities and services funded under ESG.
The policy-making entity for the City of Berkeley which makes decisions regarding the facilities, services, and other programs to receive funding under the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) is the Berkeley City Council.
The Berkeley City Council is elected by the citizens of Berkeley. The City cannot mandate that a homeless or formerly homeless individual be on the City Council. Therefore, the City must develop and implement a plan to consult with homeless or formerly homeless individuals in making policies and decisions regarding programs that receiving funding under ESG.
City staff are planning, in conjunction with Everyone Home, to host a forum each year for homeless clients, in order to involve them in policy-making and decisions regarding ESG-funded services. The details have yet to be determined. Formerly homeless people also hold seats on various EveryOne Home Committees.
5. Describe performance standards for evaluating ESG.
The performance standards to be applied to ESG activities is attached as an image labeled Outcome Measures. These standards were developed in 2018-19 through the leadership of Everyone Home (the Continuum of Care)’s Results Based Accountability (RBA) Committee comprised of various representatives:
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Systemwide Performance Targets for Rapid Re-Housing Services Rapid Re-Housing Target
How Much?
Service Population: Unduplicated count of
individuals served (HUD Element, APR Q5a)
observe
Service Population: Proportion of chronically
homeless individuals served (HUD Element, APR
Q5a)
observe
Service Population: Unduplicated count of
households served(HUD Element, Annual
Performance Report/APR Q8a)
observe
Service Population: Proportion of chronically
homeless households served (HUD Element, APR
Q26a)
observe
How Well?
Data Quality: Data entry within 3 days (HUD
Element, APR Q6e)
100%
Data Quality: Completion. Adult participants with
income info. recorded in HUD Element at entry and
annual or exit assessments (HUD Element, APR
Q18)
90%
Average length of time from enrollment to move in
(HUD Element, Apr Q22c)
60% within 2
months
With What Impact?
Are participants growing their income? (HUD
Element, APR Q19a3)
50%
Are participants accessing mainstream benefits?
(HUD Element, APR Q20b)
85%
Are participants enrolled in health insurance?(HUD
Element, APR Q21)
85%
Are we successfully moving people into permanent
housing? (HUD Element, APR Q23a&b)
80%
Exits to Homelessness: What proportion of people
exit to homeless destinations? (HUD Element APR
Q23a&b)
<5%
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CITY OF BERKELEY
CONSOLIDATED PLAN
FOR HOUSING
AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
2020-2025
and Annual Action Plan for Program Year 2020
AMENDMENT #35
for the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development
San Francisco Field Office of
Community Planning and Development
NOVEMBER 2021JULY, 2024
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 5 ES-05 Executive Summary - 24 CFR 91.200(c), 91.220(b) ......................................................................... 5 The Process ................................................................................................................................................. 11 PR-05 Lead & Responsible Agencies 24 CFR 91.200(b) ........................................................................... 11 PR-10 Consultation - 91.100, 91.200(b), 91.215(l).................................................................................. 12 PR-15 Citizen Participation ...................................................................................................................... 17 Needs Assessment ...................................................................................................................................... 30 NA-05 Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 30 NA-10 Housing Needs Assessment - 24 CFR 91.205 (a,b,c) .................................................................... 31 NA-15 Disproportionately Greater Need: Housing Problems – 91.205 (b)(2) ........................................ 41 NA-20 Disproportionately Greater Need: Severe Housing Problems – 91.205 (b)(2) ............................ 47 NA-25 Disproportionately Greater Need: Housing Cost Burdens – 91.205 (b)(2) .................................. 53 NA-30 Disproportionately Greater Need: Discussion – 91.205(b)(2) ..................................................... 55 NA-35 Public Housing – 91.205(b) .......................................................................................................... 57 NA-40 Homeless Needs Assessment – 91.205(c) .................................................................................... 61 NA-45 Non-Homeless Special Needs Assessment - 91.205 (b,d) ............................................................ 65 NA-50 Non-Housing Community Development Needs – 91.215 (f) ....................................................... 69 Housing Market Analysis ............................................................................................................................. 71 MA-05 Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 71 MA-10 Number of Housing Units – 91.210(a)&(b)(2) ............................................................................. 72 MA-15 Housing Market Analysis: Cost of Housing - 91.210(a) ............................................................... 78 MA-20 Housing Market Analysis: Condition of Housing – 91.210(a) ...................................................... 84 MA-25 Public and Assisted Housing – 91.210(b) .................................................................................... 89 MA-30 Homeless Facilities and Services – 91.210(c) .............................................................................. 91 MA-35 Special Needs Facilities and Services – 91.210(d) ....................................................................... 97 Attachment 4
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MA-40 Barriers to Affordable Housing – 91.210(e) .............................................................................. 100 MA-45 Non-Housing Community Development Assets – 91.215 (f) .................................................... 105 MA-50 Needs and Market Analysis Discussion ..................................................................................... 114 Strategic Plan ............................................................................................................................................ 116 SP-05 Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 116 SP-10 Geographic Priorities – 91.215 (a)(1) .......................................................................................... 117 SP-25 Priority Needs - 91.215(a)(2)....................................................................................................... 118 SP-30 Influence of Market Conditions – 91.215 (b) .............................................................................. 123 SP-50 Public Housing Accessibility and Involvement – 91.215(c) ................................................... 139138 SP-55 Barriers to affordable housing – 91.215(h) ........................................................................... 140139 SP-60 Homelessness Strategy – 91.215(d) ...................................................................................... 142141 SP-65 Lead based paint Hazards – 91.215(i) ................................................................................... 145144 SP-70 Anti-Poverty Strategy – 91.215(j) ......................................................................................... 147146 SP-80 Monitoring – 91.230 ............................................................................................................. 149148 Expected Resources ............................................................................................................................ 151150 AP-15 Expected Resources – 91.220(c)(1,2) ................................................................................... 151150 Annual Goals and Objectives .............................................................................................................. 155154 Projects ........................................................................................................................................... 159158 AP-35 Projects – 91.220(d) ............................................................................................................. 159158 AP-38 Project Summary .................................................................................................................. 160159 AP-50 Geographic Distribution – 91.220(f) ..................................................................................... 168167 Affordable Housing ............................................................................................................................. 169168 AP-55 Affordable Housing – 91.220(g) ........................................................................................... 169168 AP-60 Public Housing – 91.220(h) ................................................................................................... 170169 AP-65 Homeless and Other Special Needs Activities – 91.220(i) .................................................... 171170 AP-75 Barriers to affordable housing – 91.220(j) ........................................................................... 174173 Attachment 4
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AP-85 Other Actions – 91.220(k) .................................................................................................... 175174 Program Specific Requirements .......................................................................................................... 181180
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Executive Summary
ES-05 Executive Summary - 24 CFR 91.200(c), 91.220(b)
1. Introduction
Eligible state and local governments receive annual block grants for community development and affordable housing from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These grants include the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), and the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG). For each program, HUD regulations allow for a broad range of eligible activities. The state or local governments determine which of the eligible activities will best serve the needs of their community. In order to determine the most pressing needs and develop effective, place-based market-driven strategies to meet those needs, HUD requires grantees to develop a Consolidated Plan (Plan).
This Plan by the City of Berkeley lays out the City’s overall investment strategies for the City’s use of federal entitlement grant funds for affordable housing, homelessness, addressing poverty, and community development from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2025. For each year of the Consolidated Plan, the City must also produce an Annual Action Plan. The First- Year Annual Action Plan for the period July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 is attached to this Consolidated Plan. Please note that throughout the Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan, the terms “fiscal year” and “program year” are both used.
The period from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 is the City’s fiscal year (FY) 2021 and HUD’s program year (PY) 2020.
This Plan has been amended to include CARES Act funds. The City of Berkeley has received a CARES Act allocation from HUD in the amounts of $2,501,926 in CDBG-CV1&3 and $6,648,603 in ESG-CV1&2 to help prevent, prepare for, and respond to the impacts of the coronavirus.
The Plan was prepared in accordance with HUD’s Office of Community and Planning Development (CPD) eCon Planning Suite which was introduced in 2012. Since that time, HUD requires grantees submit their Consolidated Plan and First-Year Annual Action Plan using the Consolidated Plan template through the Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS), their nationwide database. Most of the data tables in the Plan are populated with default data from the U.S. Census Bureau, specifically 2011-2015 American Community Survey (ACS) and Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) data. Other sources of data are noted throughout the Plan.
The Plan is divided into six sections:
• Executive Summary
• The Process
• Needs Assessment
• Market Analysis
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• Strategic Plan
• First-Year Action Plan
2. Summary of the objectives and outcomes identified in the Plan Needs Assessment Overview
The City of Berkeley has set an ambitious array of goals for the use of its federal entitlement grant resources. The priority needs of the City are affordable housing, non-housing community development, and homelessness. The City has three goals to address those priority needs:
• Increase affordable housing supply and quality;
• Improve public facilities and public services; and
• Provide homeless services including prevention, emergency shelter, outreach and rapid re- housing.
The City of Berkeley has long placed a high priority on affordable housing and community services because they reflect important community values. The City is committed to maintaining high-quality programs for those in need but faces challenges due to insufficient resources to meet those needs. The City of Berkeley has been able to backfill some of the ongoing reductions in federal funding for affordable housing and critical community services. Local investments, however, do not begin to meet the dire need for more affordable housing and a more robust social safety need to prevent and end homelessness. At the same time, the ESG, HOME, and CDBG programs come with considerable administrative requirements, all of which impact the City’s ability to address all the many needs identified.
In response to COVID-19 and CARES Act funding, the City add a fourth goal to the Substantial Amendment #1:
• Prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19
3. Evaluation of past performance
The City tracks single family and multi-family housing rehabilitation and development efforts. Outcomes for all federally funded community agency programs are also tracked and prior outcomes are used to inform funding decisions. The City also uses countywide Homeless Count and program outcome data to inform its goals on homelessness.
4. Summary of citizen participation process and consultation process A public hearing in front of the Housing Advisory Commission was held on November 7, 2019 on the Draft Regional Analysis of Impediments. This public hearing was noticed in the Berkeley Voice on October 25, 2019.
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Specific outreach regarding the Draft Regional Analysis of Impediments public hearing was accomplished via mailings to interested parties, which include individuals, the Alameda County Homeless Continuum of Care, community agencies serving low income people, and postings at public buildings such as recreation centers, senior centers, libraries and other government buildings. The draft report was also posted on the City’s website and made available at the Department office and the Main Library.
An additional public hearing on community needs was held on November 7, 2019 in front of the Housing Advisory Commission specifically to inform the Consolidated Plan. The November 7, 2019 public hearing on community needs was noticed in the Berkeley Voice on November 1, 2019.
Draft copies of the Plan were presented to the Housing Advisory Commission on January 9, and February 6, 2020. A public comment period was opened on March 27, 2020 and concluded on May 1st, 2020 after the public hearing. A public hearing on the Plan was held on April 28, 2020 before the Berkeley City Council. An announcement regarding the public hearing and public comment period were published in the Berkeley Voice on March 27, 2020. The announcement stated where to locate the publically available Plan, the dates of the public comment period, and a summary of key elements of the Plan. The announcement also included information in Spanish and Chinese languages regarding how to obtain information about the Plan. The announcement was republished on April 24, 2020 to notify the public how to participate virtually in the public hearing during the COVID-19 Shelter in Place order and also included all the above mentioned information.
Additional outreach was accomplished via mailings to interested parties, which include individuals, the Alameda County Homeless Continuum of Care, community agencies serving low income people. Due to the COVID-19 Shelter in Place order many of the usual public buildings where the public hearing notice is posted were closed. Those included recreation centers, senior centers, libraries and other government buildings. The draft Plan was also posted on the City’s website.
Amendment #1 Public Participation processes for the COVID-19 response were as follows:
• A draft of the Substantial Amendment was made available on the City’s webpage; and • Outreach and noticing to interested parties was conducted in accordance with the City’s Citizen Participation Plan; and
• A public hearing on the Substantial Amendment was held in front of Berkeley City Council on September 15, 2020. This public hearing was noticed in the Berkeley Voice on August 28, 2020. • A revised pubic notice of the Substantial Amendment that included the HUD SFCPD email address was posted in the Berkeley Voice on October 23, 2020 for an additional 5-day public comment period.
Amendment #2 Public Participation processes for the COVID-19 response were as follows:
• A draft of the Substantial Amendment was made available on the City’s webpage; and Attachment 4
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• Outreach and noticing to interested parties was conducted in accordance with the City’s Citizen Participation Plan; and
• A public hearing on the Substantial Amendment was held in front of Berkeley City Council on February 9, 2021. This public hearing and comment period was noticed in the Berkeley Voice on January 8, 2021.
Amendment #3 Public Participation processes for the COVID-19 response were as follows:
• A draft of the Substantial Amendment was made available on the City’s webpage; and • Outreach and noticing to interested parties was conducted in accordance with the City’s Citizen Participation Plan; and
• The comment period was noticed in the Berkeley Voice on November 19, 2021.
Amendment #4
• Outreach and noticing to interested parties was conducted in accordance with the City’s Citizen Participation Plan for changes to ESG-CV only.
Amendment # 5 public participation were as follows:
• to be added
5. Summary of public comments
Two public hearings were held on November 7, 2019 before the Housing Advisory Commission. One to review the Draft Regional Analysis of Impediments, and the second on the PY18 CAPER and hear from the community on community needs. An additional public hearing on the Plan was held on April 28, 2020 before the Berkeley City Council. Additional outreach for the three public hearings was sent via the distribution lists and noticing methods mentioned above.
Three members of the public were present, and one spoke, at the November 7, 2019 public hearing on the Draft Analysis of Impediments. Comments from the public and commissioners included dedicating additional City staff resources to monitor and enforce Berkeley’s ordinance regarding source of income discrimination and to administer the City’s fair housing efforts, consider supporting countywide or state efforts to develop and implement just cause eviction regulations, vacancy rates for new housing developments, and community input on development plans in Berkeley’s R/ECAPs. During the Draft Regional Analysis of Impediments public comment period of October 28, 2019 through December 12, 2019 no written comments were received by the City of Berkeley.
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resources to monitor and enforce Berkeley’s ordinance regarding source of income discrimination and to administer the City’s fair housing efforts.
During the Housing Advisory Commission meetings on January 9, and February 6, 2020 no members of the public commented on the Plan. Comments from commissioners during these two meetings included the chosen paper of publication for the public hearings, possible Council considerations for ordinances that may impact affordable housing units, protections should be put into place, homeless being expensive and additional non-HUD funded strategies may have more success locally, current affordable housing fees and requirements do not support the demand for affordable housing, ensure outreach to the South West Berkeley community.
No members of the public spoke at the April 28, 2020 public hearing. This hearing was held virtually due to COVID-19. During the Plan’s public comment period of March 27, 2020 through May 1, 2020, no written comments were received.
Four members of the public spoke at the September 15, 2020 public hearing on Substantial Amendment #1 to the 2020 Con. Plan to include CARES Act fund in front of the City Council. Comments included support for draft allocation of funds especially for 1) vulnerable populations, specifically homeless and seniors, and 2) hotel and other housing acquisition. City Council had a robust discussion on that focused on support for this and other opportunities to create housing for the homeless (individuals and families) and homeless prevention especially in coordination with Alameda County.
No written comments were received on the Substantial Amendment #1 from either the August or October public noticing.
Five members of the public spoke at the February 9, 2021 public hearing on the Substantial Amendment #2 to the 2020 Consolidated Plan to include CARES Act funds in front of the City Council. Comments included support for the rental assistance program and testing and vaccine program, especially for immigrant populations. No written comments were received on the Substantial Amendment #2 from the public noticing.
Three written comments were received on Amendment #3. Two expressed a preference for keeping funds in Rapid Rehousing over shelter and outreach activities. The third comment requested that no one be evicted from their homes due to deferred maintenance and that City funds should support local hires to bring homes into code compliance with a preference for owner-occupied homes.
No comments were received for Amendment #4.
Amendment #5 Public Participation response were as follows • To be added
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6. Summary of comments or views not accepted and the reasons for not accepting them All comments were accepted. Additional resources could enhance City-administered programs as noted in the summary of public comments above. It would take additional federal or location funding, however, which are currently not available.
All comments from all plans and subsequent amendments
• For Amendment #3 all comments were considered and with limited resources the City has already allocated more than $2.1 million in federal funds for rapid rehousing that shall be spent by 9/30/22. In addition to federal funds, the City allocates local funds towards rental assistance to support permanent housing placements and rehabilitation for owner-occupied housing. The reallocation to emergency shelters is to extend 24/7 operations so people can continue to shelter in place during the day and receive a mid-day meal, as needed, in order to limit community contact and possible spread of COVID-19. All Berkeley shelters have reduced census to comply with 6’ social distancing requirements, require staff and participants to wear masks at all times, have increased cleaning and disinfecting schedules and conduct daily COVID symptom checks.
• Amendment #4: no comments were received.
• Amendment #5: to be added.
7. Summary
N/A.
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The Process
PR-05 Lead & Responsible Agencies 24 CFR 91.200(b)
1. Describe agency/entity responsible for preparing the Consolidated Plan and those responsible for administration of each grant program and funding source The following are the agencies/entities responsible for preparing the Consolidated Plan and those responsible for administration of each grant program and funding source.
Agency Role Name Department/Agency
CDBG Administrator BERKELEY Health, Housing and Community Services Department HOME Administrator BERKELEY Health, Housing and Community Services Department ESG Administrator BERKELEY Health, Housing and Community Services Department Table 1 – Responsible Agencies
Narrative
The Health, Housing and Community Services (HHCS) Department is the lead agency for overseeing the development of the plan. The Housing and Community Services Division coordinates the City’s funding allocation process and monitoring for community based organizations, administration of the Housing Trust Fund, and operation of other housing and community services programs such as the Shelter Plus Care Program, and Senior and Disabled Home Rehabilitation Loan Program. The Department also includes the Environmental Health, Mental Health, Public Health, and Aging Services divisions, all of which provide direct services to the community.
Consolidated Plan Public Contact Information
Kristen LeeMargot Ernst, Manager, Housing and Community Services Division City of Berkeley Health, Housing and Community Services Department 2180 Milvia Street, 2nd Floor
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 981-5427
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Kat LarroweRhianna Babka, Community Service Specialist III, Housing and Community Services Division City of Berkeley Health, Housing and Community Services Department 2180 Milvia Street, 2nd Floor
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 981-7555410
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PR-10 Consultation - 91.100, 91.200(b), 91.215(l)
1. Introduction
The consolidated planning process requires jurisdictions to reach out to and consult with other public and private agencies when developing the plan. The Plan includes a summary of the consultation process and information on agencies that participated in the process.
COVID-19 specific consultation included consultation with surrounding jurisdictions, County-wide coordination, and local needs based on on-going stakeholder input during the City’s budgeting and COVID response period.
Provide a concise summary of the jurisdiction’s activities to enhance coordination between public and assisted housing providers and private and governmental health, mental health and service agencies (91.215(I)).
The City of Berkeley coordinates housing and community services activities provided by the HHCS department through regular senior staff meetings and other specific coordination meetings. City staff also participates in the implementation of EveryOne Home, the countywide plan to end homelessness.
EveryOne Home, which is also the name of the agency – a private non-profit entity, coordinates Alameda County’s Continuum of Care. City of Berkeley staff will continue to participate in the EveryOne Home’s Leadership Board, which includes most public funders of housing and homeless services in the county, as well as leadership from key community based organizations. Leadership Board membership helps to coordinate efforts across the county. Staff also participates in other committees composed of other funders (such as Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services and the Social Services Agency) as well as many community based organizations. Recent countywide collaboration efforts include the implementation of Alameda County’s Coordinated Entry System and Whole Person Care Project, the adoption of countywide homeless program outcomes that align with HUD’s System Performance Measures, the 2019 homeless survey and count, and the ongoing implementation of Home Stretch, the centralized process that matches prioritized chronically homeless individuals to permanent supportive housing opportunities.
Describe coordination with the Continuum of Care and efforts to address the needs of homeless persons (particularly chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans, and unaccompanied youth) and persons at risk of homelessness The City of Berkeley, in coordination with the City of Oakland, Alameda County Housing and Community Services Department, and EveryOne Home, participates in Alameda Countywide Continuum of Care OC) efforts. City of Berkeley staff participate in many COC subcommittees, including the Continuum of Care Committee and Systems Coordination Committee. These Committees meet monthly and are responsible for the ongoing design and implementation of Alameda County’s Coordinated Entry System, Attachment 4
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including the establishment of regional Housing Resource Centers (HRCs), a standardized assessment tool, the Alameda County Housing Crisis Response System Manual, and the permanent supportive housing (PSH) matching process called HomeStretch. The HRCs utilize the standardized assessment tool to determine which resources to offer unhoused residents including housing navigation services, rapid rehousing financial assistance, shelter and transitional housing, and, for the chronically homeless, permanent supportive housing.
Describe consultation with the Continuum(s) of Care that serves the jurisdiction's area in determining how to allocate ESG funds, develop performance standards and evaluate outcomes, and develop funding, policies and procedures for the administration of HMIS City staff will continue to participate in the implementation of EveryOne Home, the countywide plan to end homelessness. EveryOne Home, the agency, spearheads Alameda County’s Continuum of Care. Staff will continue to participate in the initiative’s Leadership Board, which includes most public funders of housing and homeless services in the county, as well as leadership from key community based organizations. Leadership Board membership helps coordinate efforts across the county. Specific activities will include:
• Membership in the Leadership Board, which guides the organization’s activities; • Continued participation in reviewing county-wide outcomes; and • Involvement in the committee charged with oversight of research, evaluation, and compliance with HUD requirements for the Continuum of Care.
City of Berkeley staff also participate in the HMIS Oversight and Result Based Accounting Committees.
These committees established new system performance measures (SPM) based on HUD priorities. These SPMs have been incorporated in City of Berkeley contracts that govern Berkeley funding homeless services.
2. Describe Agencies, groups, organizations and others who participated in the process and describe the jurisdictions consultations with housing, social service agencies and other entities
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1 Agency/Group/Organization City of Berkeley Housing Advisory Commission Agency/Group/Organization Type Other government - Local What section of the Plan was addressed by
Consultation?
Housing Need Assessment
Homelessness Strategy
Homeless Needs - Chronically homeless
Homeless Needs - Families with children
Homelessness Needs - Veterans
Homelessness Needs - Unaccompanied youth
Non-Homeless Special Needs
Market Analysis
Anti-poverty Strategy
How was the Agency/Group/Organization
consulted and what are the anticipated
outcomes of the consultation or areas for
improved coordination?
Draft copies of the plan were presented to the
Housing Advisory Commission (HAC) at their
January and February 2020 meetings for
comments.
3 Agency/Group/Organization Homeless Commission
Agency/Group/Organization Type Other government - Local What section of the Plan was addressed by
Consultation?
Homelessness Strategy
Homeless Needs - Chronically homeless
Homeless Needs - Families with children
Homelessness Needs - Veterans
Homelessness Needs - Unaccompanied youth
How was the Agency/Group/Organization
consulted and what are the anticipated
outcomes of the consultation or areas for
improved coordination?
The Homeless Commission provides their
expertise and recommendations for funding for
community agencies including the portion of
CDBG public services funding that supports the
homeless population.
Table 2 – Agencies, groups, organizations who participated Identify any Agency Types not consulted and provide rationale for not consulting No Agency Types were knowingly excluded.
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Other local/regional/state/federal planning efforts considered when preparing the Plan Name of
Plan
Lead Organization How do the goals of your Strategic Plan overlap with the goals of each plan?
EveryOne
Home Plan
EveryOne Home
(Alameda County's
Continuum of Care)
The EveryOne Home Strategic Update Report, the countywide plan to end homelessness, was adopted by the City in 2019.
Berkeley’s activities to end homelessness, including those supported by federal monies as articulated in this plan, align with the EveryOne Home Plan.
Housing
Element
2015-2023
City of Berkeley The Housing Element addresses housing production and preservation in the City of Berkeley and includes issues related to affordable housing that overlap with this report’s goal to increase affordable housing supply and quality.
Health
Status
Report of
2018
Health, Housing,
and Community
Services; Public
Health Division
The goal of the Health Status Report is to provide a picture of the health status of people living in Berkeley. The report helps define goals and objectives for improving Berkeley’s healthy by reducing and eliminating health inequities in Berkeley, which includes assessing and addressing the social determinants of health. The Health Status Report highlights overlapping health and housing needs for low-income individuals that are
addressed in the Consolidated Plan.
2020 Vision Collaboration
between various
local agencies
Berkeley’s 2020 Vision: Equity in Education is a collective impact initiative that strives to eliminate racial disparities in academic achievement in Berkeley’s public schools. This citywide partnerships seeks to close Berkeley’s educational “opportunity gap” through a shared community commitment to this goal:
that all young people in Berkeley grow up with equitable opportunities to achieve high outcomes and realize their full potential. Four core institutional partners oversee Berkeley’s 2020 Vision: the City of Berkeley, BUSD, Berkeley City College (BCC), and the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley).
Public agency, education, nonprofit, and other partners lend content expertise, shape the direction of this initiative, and represent the students and families they serve. This is consistent with goals of reducing inequities and increasing economic opportunities for Berkeley residents. The Consolidated Plan works toward these shared goals by supporting housing and public services for low-income residents.
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Name of
Plan
Lead Organization How do the goals of your Strategic Plan overlap with the goals of each plan?
Age-
Friendly
Berkeley
Action Plan
Health, Housing,
and Community
Services; Aging
Division
This report focuses on the aging population in Berkeley and the fact that the vast majority of older adults want to age in their homes and local Berkeley community. The Age-Friendly Berkeley initiative helps prepare Berkeley for its rapidly aging population by gathering input from the community and pulling together public and private leaders, resources, ideas, and strategies to address the issues raised. Age-Friendly Berkeley is a collective effort whose goal is to ensure that all Berkeley residents are connected, healthy, and engaged in their environments. The Consolidated Plan speaks directly to affordable housing goals that support low-income persons, specifically including seniors and persons with disabilities.
Table 3 – Other local / regional / federal planning efforts
Describe cooperation and coordination with other public entities, including the State and any adjacent units of general local government, in the implementation of the Consolidated Plan (91.215(l))
EveryOne Home, described above under the Continuum of Care question, is an important venue for coordination with other units of local government in Alameda County on the issue of homelessness.
Most affordable housing developments in Berkeley receive other public funding, most typically Low Income Housing Tax Credits, but also other County and State programs, such as No Place Like Home funding for affordable housing for mentally disabled residents. The Housing & Community Services Division works with both the City’s Mental Health Division and the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency to take advantage of No Place Like Home funding to support the creation of additional permanently affordable units for unhoused residents on the Home Stretch list.
Narrative (optional):
N/A.
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PR-15 Citizen Participation
1. Summary of citizen participation process/Efforts made to broaden citizen participation Summarize citizen participation process and how it impacted goal-setting This plan was developed with citizen participation consistent with the City’s adopted Citizen Participation Plan (available at:
https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Housing/Level_3_-_General/CitizenParticipationPlan_5_12_2012_FINAL.pdf).
Two public hearings were held on November 7, 2019 before the Housing Advisory Commission to receive input from Berkeley residents on 1) the Draft Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, and 2) Berkeley’s housing and community development needs.
The public hearing on the Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice began with a presentation summarizing the draft report.
Three members of the public were present, and one spoke, at the November 7, 2019 public hearing on the Draft Analysis of Impediments.
Comments from the public and commissioners included dedicating additional City staff resources to monitor and enforce Berkeley’s ordinance regarding source of income discrimination and to administer the City’s fair housing efforts, consider supporting countywide or state efforts to develop and implement just cause eviction regulations, vacancy rates for new housing developments, and community input on development plans in Berkeley’s R/ECAPs. During the Draft Regional Analysis of Impediments public comment period of October 28, 2019 through December 12, 2019 no written comments were received by the City of Berkeley.
The community needs hearing began with a presentation summarizing the use of federal funds in PY18. Four members of the public were present, and none spoke, at the November 7, 2019 public hearing on community needs. There were no comments from the public but a commission comment addressed additional in-house City-supported enforcement of both Fair Housing and source of income discrimination.
The draft Consolidated Plan was shared with the Housing Advisory Commission on January 9, and February 6, 2020. Comments during these two meetings included the chosen paper of publication for the public hearings, possible Council considerations for ordinances that may impact affordable housing units, protections should be put into place, homeless being expensive and additional non-HUD funded strategies may have more success locally, current affordable housing fees and requirements do not support the demand for affordable housing, ensure outreach to the South West Berkeley community.
A public comment period was opened on March 27, 2020 and concluded on May 1st, 2020 after the public hearing at the April 28, 2020 Berkeley City Council meeting. An announcement regarding the public hearing and public comment period were published in the Berkeley Voice on March Attachment 4
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27, 2020. The announcement stated where to locate the publically available Plan, the dates of the public comment period, and a summary of key elements of the Plan. The announcement also included information in Spanish and Chinese languages regarding how to obtain information about the Plan. The announcement was republished on April 24, 2020 to notify the public how to participate virtually in the public hearing during the COVID-19 Shelter in Place order and also included all the above mentioned information.
Additional outreach for the draft Plan comment period and public hearing was accomplished via mailings to interested parties on the Health, Housing and Community Services Department outreach lists, which include interested individuals, a mailing to Berkeley Housing Authority consumers, community agencies serving low-income people. Due to the COVID-19 Shelter in Place order many of the usual public buildings where the public hearing notice is posted were closed. Those included recreation centers, senior centers, libraries and other government buildings. The draft Plan was also posted on the City’s website. The final plan, once adopted and accepted by HUD, will be posted on the City’s website.
No members of the public spoke at the April 28, 2020 public hearing. This hearing was held virtually due to COVID-19. During the Plan’s public comment period of March 27, 2020 through May 1, 2020, no written comments were received.
Substantial Amendment #1 Public Participation processes for the COVID-19 response were as follows:
• A draft of the Substantial Amendment was made available on the City’s webpage; and • Outreach and noticing to interested parties was conducted in accordance with the City’s Citizen Participation Plan; and • A public hearing on the Substantial Amendment was held in front of Berkeley City Council on September 15, 2020. This public hearing was noticed in the Berkeley Voice on August 28, 2020.
• Four members of the public spoke at the September 15, 2020 public hearing on Substantial Amendment #1 to the 2020 Con. Plan to include CARES Act fund in front of the City Council. Comments included support for draft allocation of funds especially for 1) vulnerable populations, specifically homeless and seniors, and 2) hotel and other housing acquisition. City Council had a robust discussion on that focused on support for this and other opportunities to create housing for the homeless (individuals and families) and homeless prevention especially in coordination with Alameda County. • No written comments were received on the Substantial Amendment #1 from either the August or October public noticing.
Substantial Amendment #2 Public Participation processes for the COVID-19 response were as follows:
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• A draft of the Substantial Amendment was made available on the City’s webpage; and • Outreach and noticing to interested parties was conducted in accordance with the City’s Citizen Participation Plan; and • A public hearing on the Substantial Amendment was held in front of Berkeley City Council on February 9, 2021. This public hearing was noticed in the Berkeley Voice on January 8,, 2021.
• Five members of the public spoke at the February 9, 2021 public hearing on the Substantial Amendment #2 to the 2020 Consolidated Plan to include CARES Act funds in front of the City Council. Comments included support for the rental assistance program and testing and vaccine program, especially for immigrant populations. No written comments were received on the Substantial Amendment #2 from the public noticing. No written comments were received on the Substantial Amendment #2 from the public noticing.
Amendment #3 Public Participation processes for the COVID-19 response were as follows:
• A draft of the Substantial Amendment was made available on the City’s webpage; and • Outreach and noticing to interested parties was conducted in accordance with the City’s Citizen Participation Plan; and • The comment period was noticed in the Berkeley Voice on November 19, 2021.
Amendment #4 Public Participation processes for the ESG-CV response were as follows:
• Outreach and noticing to interested parties was conducted in accordance with the City’s Citizen Participation Plan for changes to ESG-CV only.
Amendment #5 Public Participation process were as follows:
• To be added
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utreach
Target of O
utreach
Summary of
response/att
endance
Summary of
comments received
Summary of comm
ents not accepted
and reasons
URL (If applicable)
1 Public
Hearing
Non-
targeted/br
oad
community
One member
of the public
spoke at the
November 7,
2019 public
hearing on
community
needs in
front of the
Housing
Advisory
Commission.
City-supported
enforcement of
source of income is
needed.
All comments were
accepted.
Additional
resources could
enhance City-
administered
programs as noted
in the summary of
public comments
above. It would
take additional
federal or location
funding, however,
which are currently
not available.
https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Housing
_Advisory_Commission/
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and reasons
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2 Public
Hearing
Non-
targeted/br
oad
community
No members
of the public
spoke at the
November 7,
2019 public
hearing on
the Draft
Regional
Analysis of
Impediments
in front of
the Housing
Advisory
Commission.
Comments and
discussion from the
commissioners
focused on
additional
enforcement needs
for Fair Housing and
source of income
discrimination,
concerns about
vacancy rate of new
developments in
Berkeley, and
alignment with
development plans
and community
input within the
R/ECAP areas.
All comments were
accepted.
Additional
resources could
enhance City-
administered
programs as noted
in the summary of
public comments
above. It would
take additional
federal or location
funding, however,
which are currently
not available.
https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Housing
_Advisory_Commission/
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and reasons
URL (If applicable)
3 Public
Meeting
Non-
targeted/br
oad
community
No members
of the public
spoke on the
Consolidated
Plan at the
January 9,
2020 in front
of the
Housing
Advisory
Commission.
One question was
raised regarding the
paper of publication.
Berkeley Voice, the
paper of
publication for
notices is the
newspaper of
general circulation
for the jurisdiction.
https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Housing
_Advisory_Commission/
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4 Public
Meeting
Non-
targeted/br
oad
community
No members
of the public
spoke on the
Consolidated
Plan at the
February 6,
2020 in front
of the
Housing
Advisory
Commission.
Discussion from the
commissioners
included possible
Council
considerations for
ordinances that may
impact affordable
housing units,
protections should
be put into place,
homeless is
expensive and other
non-HUD funded
strategies may have
more success locally,
current affordable
housing fees and
requirements do not
support the demand
for affordable
housing, ensure
outreach to the
South West Berkeley
community.
All comments were
accepted.
https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Housing
_Advisory_Commission/
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5 Public
Hearing
(Virtual)
Non-
targeted/br
oad
community
No members
of the public
spoke at the
April 28,
2020 virtual
public
hearing in
front of the
Berkeley City
Council.
No comments on
the content were
received from the
public or Council.
N/A https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/Ci
ty_Council/City_Council__Agenda_Index.
aspx
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6 Public
Hearing
(Virtual)
Non-
targeted/br
oad
community
The
September
15, 2020
virtual public
hearing had
over 100
persons in
attendance
and four
members of
the public
commented
in front of
Berkeley City
Council.
No written
comments received.
Comments included
support for draft
allocation of funds
especially for 1)
vulnerable
populations,
specifically homeless
and seniors, and 2)
hotel and other
housing acquisition.
City Council had a
robust discussion on
that focused on
support for this and
other opportunities
to create housing for
the homeless
(individuals and
families) and
homeless
prevention
especially in
coordination with
Alameda County.
N/A https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/Ci
ty_Council/City_Council__Agenda_Index.
aspx
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and reasons
URL (If applicable)
7. Public
Hearing
(Virtual)
Non-
targeted/br
oad
community
The February
9, 2021
virtual public
hearing had
over a
hundred
persons in
attendance
and five
members of
the public
commented
in front of
Berkeley City
Council.
No written
comments received.
Comments included
support for the
rental assistance
program and testing
and vaccine
program, especially
for immigrant
populations.
N/A https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/Ci
ty_Council/City_Council__Agenda_Index.
aspx
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8. Public
Noticing
Non-
targeted/br
oad
community
Three written
comments on
the
amendment
were
received.
Two expressed a
preference for
keeping funds in
Rapid Rehousing
over shelter and
outreach activities.
The third comment
requested that no
one be evicted from
their homes due to
deferred
maintenance and
that City funds
should support local
hires to bring homes
into code
compliance with a
preference for
owner-occupied
homes.
All comments were
considered and
with limited
resources the City
has already
allocated more
than $2.1 million in
federal funds for
rapid rehousing
that shall be spent
by 9/30/22. In
addition to federal
funds, the City
allocates local
funds towards
rental assistance to
support permanent
housing
placements and
rehabilitation for
owner-occupied
housing. The
reallocation to
emergency shelters
is to extend 24/7
operations so
people can
continue to shelter
in place during the
day and receive a
N/A
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mid-day meal, as
needed, in order to
limit community
contact and
possible spread of
COVID-19. All
Berkeley shelters
have reduced
census to comply
with 6’ social
distancing
requirements,
require staff and
participants to
wear masks at all
times, have
increased cleaning
and disinfecting
schedules and
conduct daily
COVID symptom
checks.
9. Public
Noticing
Non-
targeted/br
oad
community
No
comments on
Amendment
#4 were
received.
N/A N/A https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files
/documents/6-6-23_CM_ESG-
CVMemo.pdf
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10. To be
added –
Amendmen
t #5
Table 4 – Citizen Participation Outreach
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Needs Assessment
NA-05 Overview
Needs Assessment Overview
The Needs Assessment of the Consolidated Plan, in conjunction with information gathered through consultations and the citizen participation process, provides a clear picture of the jurisdiction’s needs related to affordable housing, special needs housing, community development, and homelessness. The Needs Assessment includes the following sections:
• Housing Needs Assessment
• Disproportionately Greater Need
• Public Housing
• Homeless Needs Assessment
• Non-Homeless Special Needs Assessment
• Non-Housing Community Development Needs
The Needs Assessment identifies those needs with the highest priorities which form the basis for the Strategic Plan section and the programs and projects to be administered throughout the Plan period.
Most of the data tables in this section are populated with default data from the Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) developed by the Census Bureau for HUD based on 2011-2015 American Community Survey (ACS) Census. Other sources are noted throughout the Plan.
The City of Berkeley has and will continue to incur substantial costs and loss of revenue due to COVID-
19. Additionally, the federal government recognizes that local governments are in need of economic relief and have, therefore, enacted the CARES Act to support much needed relief efforts. The City of Berkeley has received a CARES Act allocation from HUD in the amounts of $2,501,926 in CDBG-CV1&3 and $6,648,603 in ESG-CV1&2 to help prevent, prepare for, and respond to the impacts of the coronavirus.
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NA-10 Housing Needs Assessment - 24 CFR 91.205 (a,b,c)
Summary of Housing Needs
As defined by HUD, housing problems include:
• Units lacking a complete kitchen or plumbing facilities; • Housing cost burden of more than 30 percent of the household income (for renters, housing costs include rent paid by the tenant plus utilities and for owners, housing costs include mortgage payments, taxes, insurance, and utilities);
• Severe housing cost burden of more than 50 percent of gross income; and • Overcrowding which is defined as more than one person per room, not including bathrooms, porches, foyers, halls, or half-rooms.
The following income categories are used throughout the Plan:
• Extremely low: households with income less than 30 percent of area median income (AMI) • Very low: households with income between 30 and 50 percent of AMI • Low: households with income between 51 and 80 percent of AMI • Moderate: households with income between 81 and 120 percent of AMI • Above moderate: households with income above 120 percent of AMI Based on the data presented in tables below from CHAS, there are 117,385 people residing in the City of Berkeley comprising 45,915 households. Of these households, 20,175 households (or 43.9 percent) are considered “low income” per HUD definitions (under 80 percent of Area Median Income). According to the 2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Estimates, which counts 45,515 households and a population of 120,179, 42.9 percent of occupied housing units are owner-occupied and 57.1 percent are renter-occupied. The CHAS data below shows that approximately 13,984 renter-households and 3,520 owner-households have some type of housing problem. That is equivalent to 38.1 percent of the households in the City of Berkeley. The vast majority of households in Berkeley with a housing problem have a housing affordability problem. According to the ACS, of the occupied units paying rent,
56.1 percent are paying 30 percent or more of their income in gross rent. Overcrowding and substandard units are far less common, according to Census data.
Demographics Base Year: 2009 Most Recent Year: 2015 % Change Population 112,580 117,385 4%
Households 40,079 45,915 15%
Median Income $59,097.00 $66,237.00 12%
Table 5 - Housing Needs Assessment Demographics
Data Source: 2005-2009 ACS (Base Year), 2011-2015 ACS (Most Recent Year)
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Number of Households Table – HUD Area Median Family Income (HAMFI) 0-30%
HAMFI
>30-50%
HAMFI
>50-80%
HAMFI
>80-100%
HAMFI
>100%
HAMFI
Total Households 10,865 4,575 4,735 4,015 21,730
Small Family Households* 1,490 980 1,165 980 9,500
Large Family Households** 95 140 65 145 720
Household contains at least one
person 62-74 years of age 1,790 905 785 550 5,605
Household contains at least one
person age 75 or older 1,134 565 520 400 2,025
Households with one or more
children 6 years old or younger 430 205 184 329 2,440
Table 6 - Total Households Table
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*4 persons or less
**5 persons or more
Source: “Chas Table Summary” Page 2
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/cp/CHAS/2007Data/CHAS%20table%20summary.doc
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Housing Needs Summary Tables
1. Housing Problems (Households with one of the listed needs) Renter Owner
0-30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
>80-
100%
AMI
Total 0-30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
>80-
100%
AMI
Total
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS
Substandard
Housing -
Lacking
complete
plumbing or
kitchen
facilities 185 75 75 15 350 20 0 0 0 20
Severely
Overcrowded -
With >1.51
people per
room (and
complete
kitchen and
plumbing) 245 55 45 35 380 0 0 10 0 10
Overcrowded -
With 1.01-1.5
people per
room (and
none of the
above
problems) 275 120 55 10 460 0 10 15 20 45
Housing cost
burden greater
than 50% of
income (and
none of the
above
problems) 5,785 1,320 480 60 7,645 860 615 455 340 2,270 Attachment 4
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Renter Owner
0-30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
>80-
100%
AMI
Total 0-30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
>80-
100%
AMI
Total
Housing cost
burden greater
than 30% of
income (and
none of the
above
problems) 865 1,135 1,400 680 4,080 175 210 325 350 1,060 Zero/negative
Income (and
none of the
above
problems) 1,050 0 0 0 1,050 115 0 0 0 115
Table 7 – Housing Problems Table
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
2. Housing Problems 2 (Households with one or more Severe Housing Problems: Lacks kitchen or complete plumbing, severe overcrowding, severe cost burden) Renter Owner
0-30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
>80-
100%
AMI
Total 0-
30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
>80-
100%
AMI
Total
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS
Having 1 or more
of four housing
problems 6,485 1,570 655 120 8,830 875 625 475 360 2,335 Having none of
four housing
problems 2,045 1,830 2,535 2,435 8,845 290 545 1,070 1,100 3,005 Household has
negative income,
but none of the
other housing
problems 1,050 0 0 0 1,050 115 0 0 0 115
Table 8 – Housing Problems 2
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
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3. Cost Burden > 30%
Renter Owner
0-30%
AMI
>30-50%
AMI
>50-80%
AMI
Total 0-30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
Total
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS
Small Related 1,040 630 365 2,035 190 195 300 685
Large Related 75 105 10 190 0 10 15 25
Elderly 1,375 269 165 1,809 610 485 350 1,445
Other 4,705 1,625 1,435 7,765 235 130 120 485
Total need by
income
7,195 2,629 1,975 11,799 1,035 820 785 2,640
Table 9 – Cost Burden > 30%
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
4. Cost Burden > 50%
Renter Owner
0-30%
AMI
>30-50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
Total 0-30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
Total
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS
Small Related 860 300 60 1,220 180 165 190 535
Large Related 50 30 10 90 0 10 0 10
Elderly 950 95 45 1,090 465 320 190 975
Other 4,350 950 375 5,675 215 120 75 410
Total need by
income
6,210 1,375 490 8,075 860 615 455 1,930
Table 10 – Cost Burden > 50%
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
5. Crowding (More than one person per room)
Renter Owner
0-
30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
>80-
100%
AMI
Total 0-
30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
>80-
100%
AMI
Total
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS
Single family
households 175 125 60 45 405 0 10 20 20 50
Multiple,
unrelated family
households 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4
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Renter Owner
0-
30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
>80-
100%
AMI
Total 0-
30%
AMI
>30-
50%
AMI
>50-
80%
AMI
>80-
100%
AMI
Total
Other, non-family
households 380 50 50 0 480 0 0 0 0 0
Total need by
income
555 175 110 45 885 0 10 24 20 54
Table 11 – Crowding Information – 1/2
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
Renter Owner
0-30%
AMI
>30-50%
AMI
>50-80%
AMI
Total 0-30%
AMI
>30-50%
AMI
>50-80%
AMI
Total
Househo
lds with
Children
Present
Not
Available
Not
Available
Not
Available
Not
Available
Not
Available
Not
Available
Not
Available
Not
Available
Table 12 – Crowding Information – 2/2
Data Source Comments: No data available.
Describe the number and type of single person households in need of housing assistance.
The 2013-2017 ACS showed that of 45,515 households, 34.2 percent (or 15,571 households) are single- person households. Among all households over 65 years old, 45.6 percent are living alone. Among all renters, householders living alone make up 41.7 percent, with single householders 65 years and older making up nearly nine percent (8.8%) of renters. Within owner occupied housing units, 24.2 percent are single person households with single householders 65 years and older making up 13.5 percent of owner occupied housing units.
Compared to the average household (in Berkeley it is 2.5 people), a single-person household will likely pay a larger portion of their income on housing. This is not surprising given the high cost of housing in Berkeley and in the Bay Area generally. According to the January 2019 Homeless Count and Survey conducted by Applied Survey Research on behalf of the City, as a part of Alameda County’s EveryOne Home effort (http://everyonehome.org/wp-
content/uploads/2019/09/2019HIRDReport_Berkeley_2019-Final.pdf), there were 1,057 individuals who were single households and experiencing homelessness out of the total count of 1,108 individuals.
Estimate the number and type of families in need of housing assistance who are disabled or victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
The Berkeley Housing Authority (BHA) currently has 1,495 Housing Choice Vouchers with a HAP contract and according to the BHA, 60 percent of the vouchers are utilized by families with disabilities (see NA-35 Attachment 4
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below). When the waiting list for the Housing Choice Voucher program was opened in 2010, approximately 37,000 people applied. Twenty percent of applicants, or 7,400 people, indicated on their application that they had a disability. The percentage of current voucher holders with disabilities and the number of applicants with disabilities underscore the large demand of affordable housing for families with disabilities. Annually, approximately 2-4 victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault or stalking victims are assisted by BHA staff, by implementation of the VAWA Plan.
According to the previously referenced Berkeley Homeless Count and Survey, a history of domestic violence and partner abuse can be the primary cause of homelessness. Victims of domestic violence have a great risk of becoming homeless and experiencing poverty. According to the Family and Youth Services Bureau (https://www.acf.hhs.gov/fysb/resource/dv-homelessness-stats-2016), this is likely tied to a high need for services, including housing and financial support, and the lack of commensurate housing and financial resources available. The lack of affordable housing in the City likely makes it difficult for victims of domestic violence to leave their violent homes, so it is plausible that they are more likely to move to an overcrowded unit or into a homeless shelter than those not experiencing domestic violence. Five percent of the 2019 Homeless Count and Survey respondents in Berkeley reported currently experiencing domestic violence or abuse, compared to six percent of respondents in Alameda County. Twenty-five percent of the 2019 Homeless Count and Survey respondents in Berkeley reported a history of experiencing physical, emotional or sexual abuse by a relative or by a person with whom they have lived. The City has seen an increase in domestic violence-related calls for assistance to the Berkeley Police Department. From 2009-2016, there was an average of 169 domestic violence- related calls per year while the most recent data (2017-2018) shows an average of 224 domestic violence-related calls per year (State of California Department of Justice, http://oag.ca.gov/crime/cjsc/stats/domestic-violence). The recent increase likely means more families will require housing assistance in order to safely relocate.
What are the most common housing problems?
The most common housing problems are cost burdens for both renters and homeowners. According to the data above, a housing cost burden of greater than 50 percent of income affects 5,785 of renter households in the lowest income range (0-30 percent AMI). In total, housing cost burden greater than 50 percent of income affects 10,005 households (8,075 rental and 1,930 homeowner).
Are any populations/household types more affected than others by these problems? Renters, in most income categories, are more affected by housing cost burdens than homeowners and thus, have the greatest needs. The 2013-2017 ACS data shows that 56.8 percent of renters are paying 30 percent or more of household income on housing compared to 35.1 percent of homeowners. The largest renter group experiencing housing cost burdens are unrelated and non-elderly households while the owner group most burdened by housing costs are elderly households.
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Describe the characteristics and needs of Low-income individuals and families with children (especially extremely low-income) who are currently housed but are at imminent risk of either residing in shelters or becoming unsheltered 91.205(c)/91.305(c)). Also discuss the needs of formerly homeless families and individuals who are receiving rapid re-housing assistance and are nearing the termination of that assistance According to the CHAS data, there are 430 households with one or more children 6 years or younger in the extremely low income category, 205 households in the very low income category, and 184 households in the low income category. These numbers represent declines in those populations from the last Consolidated Plan, with 83 fewer in the extremely low income category, 119 fewer in the very low income category, and 196 fewer in the low income category. These households, while in decline, are at higher risks of homelessness, especially the extremely low income group, due to their limited income and the City’s high housing cost burden. Low income families with children need affordable homes that are large enough to accommodate them. The City funds a variety of social services for low income families, such as health care, child care, and programs serving children and youth. In addition, in 2014, the City adopted its own Minimum Wage Ordinance. Starting in July of 2019 the Berkeley minimum wage was raised to $15.59 and will continue to increase annually with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose metropolitan statistical area. Raising the minimum wage helps low income individuals and families. The National Low Income Housing Coalition publishes an annual report, called Out of Reach (https://reports.nlihc.org/oor/zip?code=94704&=Go), to show how much a household must earn to afford a decent rental home at HUD-estimated Fair Market Rent (FMR) while spending no more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs. Unfortunately, according to the 2019 Out of Reach report and available data, a person would need to make over $30.00 per hour even to be able to afford a one bedroom unit anywhere in Berkeley.
The City of Berkeley targets City homeless financial resources to households who will be most successful with the intervention offered, whether it be one-time flex funds or longer term rapid rehousing. The City provides rapid rehousing financial assistance to households that are literally homeless who can sustain their rent overtime, and who are expected to “graduate” from the rental assistance within the 24 month period ESG requirement.
Between PY14 – PY18 (July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2019), the City of Berkeley’s Priority Home Partnership (PHP) Rapid Re-Housing Program served 106 people in 80 households. Fifteen percent of the rapid re-housing households were families with varying forms of employment or other incomes.
Fifty-five percent of the people housed through PHP were chronically homeless individuals or families who eventually received a permanent supportive housing or Section 8 voucher to remain housed.
Twenty-six percent of the people maintained their housing by assuming the full rent. The remaining households left the program to temporary destinations.
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subsidies, but, used alone, cannot prevent some of the highest needs people from returning to homelessness. Overreliance on rapid rehousing with high needs individuals in a tight housing market is a strategy that is tenuous in the long-run.
If a jurisdiction provides estimates of the at-risk population(s), it should also include a description of the operational definition of the at-risk group and the methodology used to generate the estimates:
N/A
Specify particular housing characteristics that have been linked with instability and an increased risk of homelessness
In the City of Berkeley, the high cost burden is a housing characteristic strongly linked with instability and an increased risk of homelessness. According to the 2019 Out of Reach report, the hourly wage needed to afford a two-bedroom at FMR ($2,790) in downtown Berkeley is $53.65. According to the report, the same downtown zip code (94704) also has a poverty rate of 51.4 percent with a median household income of $26,758 and an unemployment rate of just over nine percent (9.1%). The urbanized downtown area of Berkeley sits in stark contrast with the more suburban neighboring zip code (94705), which has an unemployment rate of just over five percent (5.3%), a 10.1 percent poverty rate, an $116,250 median household income and where the hourly wage needed to afford a two- bedroom at FMR ($2,370) is $45.58. Proximity to social services and regional job centers via public transit makes Berkeley’s urban downtown appealing, but its higher housing prices make it difficult for low income, transit dependent residents (without cars) to retain housing.
While the lower income households within the downtown core of Berkeley is of particular note, the numbers also reflect the impact of the University of California at Berkeley’s (UC Berkeley) student population many of whom have little or no income. Students compete with nonstudent residents for housing, creating elevated pricing conditions for existing low income households, especially in those geographic areas surrounding the UC Berkeley campus.
Discussion
Housing affordability persists as a critical housing issue in Berkeley as well as the whole San Francisco Bay Area. Low-income renters and homeless persons are exceptionally impacted by limited affordable housing in Berkeley. The City continues to fund a variety of programs to support homeless persons and low income renters and homeowners with federal and local funds. The housing shortage and rapid rent increases in Berkeley are exacerbated by the growing student population associated with the University of California’s Berkeley campus. As reported by the news publication, Berkeleyside on June 17, 2019 (https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/06/17/city-sues-uc-berkeley-for-not-studying-impacts-of-34- student-enrollment-increase), the City filed a lawsuit against UC Berkeley on June 14, 2019, contending that the university did not analyze the impacts of a more than 30 percent enrollment increase on City Attachment 4
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services. The City contends that UC Berkeley should complete an environmental review of their projected student increase (from 33,450 to 44,735 students by 2022-2023). At the time of this document’s drafting, supplemental funds had not been allocated to directly address the impact on the city of the estimated 11,000 student increase. Low income students experiencing homelessness remain a concern.
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NA-15 Disproportionately Greater Need: Housing Problems – 91.205 (b)(2) Assess the need of any racial or ethnic group that has disproportionately greater need in comparison to the needs of that category of need as a whole.
Introduction
A disproportionately greater need exists when the members of racial or ethnic group at a given income level experience housing problems at a greater rate (10 percentage points or more) than the income level of the jurisdiction as a whole. The four housing problems are: 1) the lack of complete kitchen facilities, 2) the lack of complete plumbing facilities, 3) more than one person per room, and 4) a cost burden greater than 30 percent.
0%-30% of Area Median Income
Housing Problems* Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 8,400 1,295 1,165
White 3,945 600 345
Black / African American 1,325 370 85
Asian 1,855 245 574
American Indian, Alaska Native 95 0 0
Pacific Islander 55 0 0
Hispanic 750 40 100
Table 13 - Disproportionally Greater Need 0 - 30% AMI
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than one person per room, 4.Cost burden greater than 30 percent
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30%-50% of Area Median Income
Housing Problems* Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 3,540 1,035 0
White 2,015 525 0
Black / African American 390 235 0
Asian 585 170 0
American Indian, Alaska Native 15 0 0
Pacific Islander 0 0 0
Hispanic 430 64 0
Table 14 - Disproportionally Greater Need 30 - 50% AMI
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than one person per room, 4.Cost burden greater than 30 percent
50%-80% of Area Median Income
Housing Problems* Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 2,855 1,880 0
White 1,695 1,140 0
Black / African American 275 175 0
Asian 425 245 0
American Indian, Alaska Native 20 4 0
Pacific Islander 40 10 0
Hispanic 260 195 0
Table 15 - Disproportionally Greater Need 50 - 80% AMI
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than one person per room, 4.Cost burden greater than 30 percent
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80%-100% of Area Median Income
Housing Problems* Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 1,510 2,505 0
White 890 1,310 0
Black / African American 100 305 0
Asian 300 490 0
American Indian, Alaska Native 4 0 0
Pacific Islander 0 0 0
Hispanic 180 250 0
Table 16 - Disproportionally Greater Need 80 - 100% AMI Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than one person per room, 4.Cost burden greater than 30 percent
Discussion
Generally speaking, those in lower income categories in Berkeley have higher rates of housing problems.
For example, 77.3 percent of people in the 0-30 percent of Area Median Income have one of the four housing problems, as do to 77.3 percent of the 30-50 percent of Area Median Income category, while
60.2 percent of the 50-80 percent of Area Median Income category, and 37.6 percent of the 80-100 percent of Area Median Income category have one of the four housing problems (in the 0-30 percent, there are an additional 1,165 households which have no or negative income as their sole housing problem). As income drops, chances of having housing problems increase.
The following groups have disproportionately greater needs (10 percent higher than the percentage experiencing one of four housing problems of the jurisdiction’s income level as a whole), as demonstrated by the modified tables below (originally tables 13-16, now labeled as “Edited” and located in this discussion section) that include expanded data to reflect the percent experiencing one of four housing problems:
• American Indians/Alaska Natives in the 0-30 percent of Area Median Income category are at 100 percent of 95 households experiencing one or more of four housing problems. In the 30-50 percent of Area Median Income category, 100 percent of the 15 households have one or more of four housing problems. In the 50-80 percent of Area Median Income category, 83.3 percent of the 24 households have one or more of four housing problems. In the 80-100 percent of Area Median Income category, 100 percent of the 4 households have one or more of four housing problems.
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• Pacific Islanders in the 0-30 percent of Area Median Income category, have 100 percent of 55 households with one or more of four housing problems. In the 50-80 percent of Area Median Income category, 80 percent of the 50 households have one or more of four housing problems. • Hispanics in the 30-50 percent of Area Median Income category experience one or more of four housing problems, at 87 percent.
According to the 2020 Alameda County Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (https://www.cityofberkeley.info/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=36278), across the county, minority households, especially black and Hispanic households, have the highest rate of disproportionate housing needs.
0%-30% of Area Median Income (Edited - including percent with one or more of four housing problems)
Housing Problems* Has one or
more of four
housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
TOTAL Percent with
one or more of
four housing
problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 8,400 1,295 1,165 10,860 77.3
White 3,945 600 345 4,890 80.6
Black / African American 1,325 370 85 1,780 74.4
Asian 1,855 245 574 2,674 69.3
American Indian, Alaska
Native 95 0 0 95 100
Pacific Islander 55 0 0 55 100
Hispanic 750 40 100 890 84.2
Edited Table 17 - Disproportionally Greater Need 0 - 30% AMI Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than one person per room, 4.Cost burden greater than 30 percent
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30%-50% of Area Median Income (Edited - including percent with one or more of four housing problems)
Housing Problems* Has one or
more of four
housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
TOTAL Percent with
one or more of
four housing
problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 3,540 1,035 0 4,575 77.3
White 2,015 525 0 2,540 79.3
Black / African American 390 235 0 625 62.4
Asian 585 170 0 755 77.4
American Indian, Alaska
Native 15 0 0 15 100
Pacific Islander 0 0 0 0 0
Hispanic 430 64 0 494 87
Edited Table 18 - Disproportionally Greater Need 30 - 50% AMI Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than one person per room, 4.Cost burden greater than 30 percent
50%-80% of Area Median Income (Edited - including percent with one or more of four housing problems)
Housing Problems* Has one or
more of four
housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
TOTAL Percent with
one or more of
four housing
problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 2,855 1,880 0 4,735 60.2
White 1,695 1,140 0 2,835 59.7
Black / African American 275 175 0 450 61.1
Asian 425 245 0 670 63.4
American Indian, Alaska
Native 20 4 0 24 83.3
Pacific Islander 40 10 0 50 80
Hispanic 260 195 0 455 57.1
Edited Table 19 - Disproportionally Greater Need 50 - 80% AMI Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than one person per room, 4.Cost burden greater than 30 percent
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80%-100% of Area Median Income (Edited - including percent with one or more of four housing problems)
Housing Problems* Has one or
more of four
housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
TOTAL Percent with
one or more
of four
housing
problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 1,510 2,505 0 4,015 37.6
White 890 1,310 0 2,200 40.4
Black / African American 100 305 0 405 24.6
Asian 300 490 0 790 37.9
American Indian, Alaska
Native 4 0 0 4 100
Pacific Islander 0 0 0 0 0
Hispanic 180 250 0 430 41.8
(Edited) Table 20 - Disproportionally Greater Need 80 - 100% AMI Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than one person per room, 4.Cost burden greater than 30 percent
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NA-20 Disproportionately Greater Need: Severe Housing Problems – 91.205 (b)(2)
Assess the need of any racial or ethnic group that has disproportionately greater need in comparison to the needs of that category of need as a whole.
Introduction
The four severe housing problems are: 1) the lack of complete kitchen facilities, 2) the lack of complete plumbing facilities, 3) more than 1.5 persons per room, and 4) a cost burden greater than 50 percent. 0%-30% of Area Median Income
Severe Housing Problems* Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has no/negative
income, but none of the
other housing problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 7,360 2,335 1,165
White 3,585 960 345
Black / African American 1,025 670 85
Asian 1,740 355 574
American Indian, Alaska
Native 60 35 0
Pacific Islander 55 0 0
Hispanic 575 215 100
Table 21 – Severe Housing Problems 0 - 30% AMI
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four severe housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than 1.5 persons per room, 4. Cost burden over 50 percent
30%-50% of Area Median Income
Severe Housing Problems* Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has no/negative
income, but none of the
other housing problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 2,195 2,375 0
White 1,225 1,315 0
Black / African American 225 410 0
Asian 340 415 0
American Indian, Alaska
Native 15 0 0
Pacific Islander 0 0 0
Hispanic 310 190 0
Table 22 – Severe Housing Problems 30 - 50% AMI
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*The four severe housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than 1.5 persons per room, 4. Cost burden over 50 percent
50%-80% of Area Median Income
Severe Housing Problems* Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has no/negative
income, but none of the
other housing problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 1,130 3,605 0
White 775 2,060 0
Black / African American 120 330 0
Asian 190 475 0
American Indian, Alaska
Native 4 15 0
Pacific Islander 0 50 0
Hispanic 24 425 0
Table 23 – Severe Housing Problems 50 - 80% AMI
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four severe housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than 1.5 persons per room, 4. Cost burden over 50 percent
80%-100% of Area Median Income
Severe Housing Problems* Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has no/negative
income, but none of the
other housing problems
Jurisdiction as a whole 480 3,535 0
White 295 1,905 0
Black / African American 60 350 0
Asian 40 750 0
American Indian, Alaska
Native 0 4 0
Pacific Islander 0 0 0
Hispanic 85 340 0
Table 24 – Severe Housing Problems 80 - 100% AMI
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four severe housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than 1.5 persons per room, 4. Cost burden over 50 percent
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Discussion
There are two problems that distinguish “severe housing problems” from “housing problems”:
• Overcrowded households with more than 1.5 persons per room instead of 1 person per room, not including bathrooms, porches foyers, halls, or half-rooms. • Households with cost burdens of more than 50 percent of income instead of 30 percent.
The following groups have disproportionately greater needs (10 percent higher than the percentage experiencing one of four severe housing problems of the jurisdiction’s income level as a whole), as demonstrated by the modified tables below (originally tables 17-20, marked “Edited”), which include the percent experiencing one of four severe housing problems:
• In the 0-30 percent of Area Median Income category 67.7 percent overall have one or more severe housing problem. Pacific Islanders had disproportionately greater need in comparison to the needs of that category of need as a whole, with 100 percent of 55 households experiencing have one or more of four severe housing problems.
• In the 30-50 percent of Area Median Income category 48 percent overall have one or more of four severe housing problems. American Indian, Alaska Natives had disproportionately greater need in comparison to the needs of that category of need as a whole, with 100 percent of 15 households experiencing one or more of four severe housing problems.
When applicable to fair housing law, Berkeley is working to address disproportionately severe housing problems when they can be addressed by landlords through continuing to fund fair housing outreach, education, investigation, and enforcement. Alameda County’s Draft 2020 Regional Analysis of Impediments catalogues Berkeley’s efforts with limited resources. In FY17, a city funded community agency provided fair housing services and a majority of tenants served had housing-related issues related to their disabled status; however, gender, family status, national origin, race, and age discrimination were also reported.
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0%-30% of Area Median Income (Edited - including percent with one or more of four housing problems)
Severe Housing
Problems*
Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of the
four housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
TOTAL Percent with
one or more
of four
housing
problems
Jurisdiction as a
whole 7,360 2,335 1,165 10,860 67.7
White 3,585 960 345 4890 73.3
Black / African
American 1,025 670 85 1,780 57.5
Asian 1,740 355 574 2,669 65.1
American Indian,
Alaska Native 60 35 0 95 63.1
Pacific Islander 55 0 0 55 100
Hispanic 575 215 100 890 64.6
Edited Table 25 – Severe Housing Problems 0 - 30% AMI
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four severe housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than 1.5 persons per room, 4. Cost burden over 50 percent
30%-50% of Area Median Income (Edited - including percent with one or more of four housing problems)
Severe Housing
Problems*
Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of
the four
housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
TOTAL Percent with
one or more
of four
housing
problems
Jurisdiction as a
whole 2,195 2,375 0 4,570 48
White 1,225 1,315 0 2540 48.2
Black / African
American 225 410 0 635 35.4
Asian 340 415 0 755 45
American Indian,
Alaska Native 15 0 0 15 100
Pacific Islander 0 0 0 0 0
Hispanic 310 190 0 500 62
Edited Table 26 – Severe Housing Problems 30 - 50% AMI
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*The four severe housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than 1.5 persons per room, 4. Cost burden over 50 percent
50%-80% of Area Median Income (Edited - including percent with one or more of four housing problems)
Severe Housing
Problems*
Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of
the four
housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
TOTAL Percent with
one or more
of four
housing
problems
Jurisdiction as a
whole 1,130 3,605 0 4,735 23.8
White 775 2,060 0 2,835 2
Black / African
American 120 330 0 450 26.6
Asian 190 475 0 665 28.5
American Indian,
Alaska Native 4 15 0 19 21
Pacific Islander 0 50 0 50 0
Hispanic 24 425 0 449 5
Edited Table 27 – Severe Housing Problems 50 - 80% AMI
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four severe housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than 1.5 persons per room, 4. Cost burden over 50 percent
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80%-100% of Area Median Income (Edited - including percent with one or more of four housing problems)
Severe Housing
Problems*
Has one or more
of four housing
problems
Has none of
the four
housing
problems
Household has
no/negative
income, but none
of the other
housing problems
TOTAL Percent with
one or more
of four
housing
problems
Jurisdiction as a
whole 480 3,535 0 4,015 11.9
White 295 1,905 0 2,200 13.4
Black / African
American 60 350 0 410 14.6
Asian 40 750 0 790 5
American Indian,
Alaska Native 0 4 0 4 0
Pacific Islander 0 0 0 0 0
Hispanic 85 340 0 425 20
Edited Table 28 – Severe Housing Problems 80 - 100% AMI Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
*The four severe housing problems are:
1. Lacks complete kitchen facilities, 2. Lacks complete plumbing facilities, 3. More than 1.5 persons per room, 4. Cost burden over 50 percent
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NA-25 Disproportionately Greater Need: Housing Cost Burdens – 91.205 (b)(2) Assess the need of any racial or ethnic group that has disproportionately greater need in comparison to the needs of that category of need as a whole.
Introduction:
The following table displays cost burden information for the jurisdiction and each racial and ethnic group, including no cost burden (less than or equal to 30 percent), cost burden (greater than 30 to 50 percent), severe cost burden (more than 50 percent), and no/negative income.
Housing Cost Burden
Housing Cost Burden <=30% >30-50% >50% No / negative
income (not
computed)
Jurisdiction as a whole 25,875 8,065 10,705 1,265
White 18,100 4,750 5,890 360
Black / African
American 1,825 775 1,340 85
Asian 3,415 1,180 2,140 644
American Indian,
Alaska Native 35 55 70 4
Pacific Islander 10 40 55 0
Hispanic 1,650 935 840 105
Table 29 – Greater Need: Housing Cost Burdens AMI
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
Discussion:
When individuals of all incomes are combined by race or ethnicity, based on a housing cost burden of 30-50 percent or >50 percent of Area Median Income, the disproportionately greater needs compared to the needs of the jurisdiction as a whole are evident and described below (as demonstrated in the table below based on Table 21):
• For Black/African Americans: A cost burden of 50 percent or more of their income impacts 33.5 percent of Black / African Americans, compared to 23.3 percent of the City as a whole. • For American Indian, Alaska Native: A cost burden of 30 percent up to 50 percent impacts 33.5 percent of American Indian, Alaska Native, compared to 17.5 percent of the City as a whole. A cost burden of 50 percent or more of their income impacts 42.6 percent of American Indian, Alaska Native, compared to 23.3 percent of the City as a whole. • For Pacific Islanders: A cost burden of 30-50 percent impacts 38 percent Pacific Islanders, compared to 17.5 percent of the City as a whole. A cost burden of 50 percent or more of their Attachment 4
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income impacts 52.3 percent of Pacific Islanders, compared to 23.3 percent of the City as a whole.
Housing Cost Burden (Edited- including percent of total group within each burden category) Housing Cost
Burden
<=30% Percent
of total
with
<=30%
30-50% Percent
of total
with 30-
50%
>50% Percent
of total
with
>50%
No /
negative
income (not
computed)
TOTAL
Jurisdiction as a
whole 25,875 56.3 8,065 17.5 10,705 23.3 1,265 45,910
White 18,100 62.1 4,750 16.3 5,890 20.2 360 29,100
Black / African
American 1,825 45.3 775 19.2 1,340 33.2 85 4,025
Asian 3,415 46.2 1,180 15.9 2,140 29 644 7,379
American Indian,
Alaska Native 35 21.3 55 33.5 70 42.6 4 164
Pacific Islander 10 9 40 38 55 52.3 0 105
Hispanic 1,650 46.7 935 26.4 840 23.7 105 3,530
Edited Table 30 – Greater Need: Housing Cost Burdens AMI Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
As previously mentioned in NA-20, Berkeley, in partnership with a community based agency, works to address fair housing with a partner community based agency. Efforts include housing and income discrimination through housing outreach, education, investigation, and enforcement. Alameda County’s 2020 Regional Analysis of Impediments catalogues Berkeley’s efforts with limited resources.
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NA-30 Disproportionately Greater Need: Discussion – 91.205(b)(2) Are there any Income categories in which a racial or ethnic group has disproportionately greater need than the needs of that income category as a whole? At the 0-30 percent of Area Median Income category, among those with one or more of four severe housing problems, Pacific Islanders have a disproportionately greater need than the needs of the income category as a whole. At the 0-30 percent of Area Median Income category, among those with one or more of four housing problems, American Indian, Alaska Natives and Pacific Islanders have disproportionately greater needs than the needs of the income category as a whole.
In the 30-50 percent of Area Median Income range, among those with one or more of four severe housing problems, American Indian, Alaska Natives and Hispanics are experiencing a disproportionate need. At the 30-50 percent of Area Median Income category, among those with one or more of four housing problems, American Indian, Alaska Natives and Hispanics also face a disproportionate need.
At the 50-80 percent of Area Median Income category, among those with one or more of four severe housing problems, no one group has a significant need above the percent impacted within the jurisdiction as a whole. At the 50-80 percent of Area Median Income category, among those with one or more of four housing problems, American Indian, Alaska Natives and Pacific Islanders have disproportionately greater needs than the needs of the income category as a whole.
At the 80-100 percent of Area Median Income category, among those with one or more of four severe housing problems, no one group has a significant need above the percent impacted within the jurisdiction as a whole. At the 80-100 percent of Area Median Income category, among those with one or more of four housing problems, only American Indian, Alaska Natives had a significant need at 100 percent, however that was with only four households as a total in that category.
Across all income categories, among those with one or more of four housing problems, American Indian, Alaska Natives consistently have disproportionately greater needs than their income categories as a whole.
If they have needs not identified above, what are those needs? No additional needs have been identified.
Are any of those racial or ethnic groups located in specific areas or neighborhoods in your community?
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Native populations are scattered throughout the City, but the number of American Indian and Alaskan Native households are too small to determine whether they’re concentrated in a specific area.
According to Alameda County’s 2020 Regional Analysis of Impediments, segregation between white and non-white residents has increased for every jurisdiction since 1990 except for Oakland, Berkeley, and Union City. Segregation between black and white residents has increased for every jurisdiction except for Alameda and Oakland. Segregation between white and Hispanic residents has increased for every jurisdiction. Segregation for white and Asian or Pacific Islander residents has increased for every jurisdiction except Fremont and Union City. In general, participating jurisdictions, except for the County, Berkeley, and Oakland, have low levels of segregation.
A Racially or Ethnically Concentrated Area of Poverty (R/ECAP) is a neighborhood (census tract) with a poverty rate of 40 percent or more and a racial or ethnic concentration (50 percent or more of the tract is minority). The Regional Analysis of Impediments identifies the Berkeley’s R/ECAPs. In Berkeley, 40 percent of R/ECAP residents are white, 39 percent are Asian, and 11 percent are Hispanic. By comparison, in Oakland, 37 percent of R/ECAP residents are Hispanic, 37 percent are black, and 15 percent are Asian or Pacific Islander.
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NA-35 Public Housing – 91.205(b)
Introduction
The Berkeley Housing Authority (BHA) no longer owns public housing units, as they were transitioned to Project-based Section 8 via a disposition process in 2014. The BHA Board is appointed by the Mayor of the City of Berkeley and confirmed by the City Council. BHA updated the following data for inclusion in this Plan from PIC (PIH Information Center) since the populated data from HUD was outdated.
Totals in Use
Program Type
Certificate Mod-
Rehab
Public
Housing
Vouchers
Total Project -
based
Tenant -
based
Special Purpose Voucher
Veterans
Affairs
Supportive
Housing
Family
Unification
Program
Disabled
*
# of units vouchers in use 0 93 0 1,495 300 1,195 20 0 20 Table 31 - Public Housing by Program Type
*includes Non-Elderly Disabled, Mainstream One-Year, Mainstream Five-year, and Nursing Home Transition
Data Source: PIC (PIH Information Center)
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Characteristics of Residents
Program Type
Certificate Mod-
Rehab
Public
Housing
Vouchers
Total Project -
based
Tenant -
based
Special Purpose Voucher
Veterans
Affairs
Supportive
Housing
Family
Unification
Program
Average Annual Income 0 $8,843 0 $16,981 $17,991 $15,971 $20,943 N/A Average length of stay 0 11 0 7.5 7 8 7 N/A
Average Household size 0 1 0 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 N/A
# Homeless at admission 0 All 0 33 6 27 20 N/A
# of Elderly Program
Participants (>62) 0 45 0 691 138 553 0
N/A
# of Disabled Families 0 98 0 900 180 720 20 N/A
# of Families requesting
accessibility features
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
# of HIV/AIDS program
participants 0 0 0 15 15 0 0 0
# of DV victims 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 0
Table 32 – Characteristics of Public Housing Residents by Program Type Data Source: PIC (PIH Information Center)
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Race of Residents
Program Type
Race Certificate Mod-
Rehab
Public
Housing
Vouchers
Total Project -
based
Tenant
-based
Special Purpose Voucher
Veterans Affairs
Supportive
Housing
Family
Unification
Program
Disable
d
*
White 0 26 0 404 81 323 8 0 14
Black/African American 0 64 0 978 196 781 8 0 10
Asian 0 4 0 76 15 60 0 0 0
American Indian/Alaska
Native 0 1 0 16 3 12 1 0 1
Pacific Islander 0 1 0 21 4 16 0 0 2
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
*includes Non-Elderly Disabled, Mainstream One-Year, Mainstream Five-year, and Nursing Home Transition Table 33 – Race of Public Housing Residents by Program Type Data Source: PIC (PIH Information Center)
Ethnicity of Residents
Program Type
Ethnicity Certificate Mod-
Rehab
Public
Housing
Vouchers
Total Project -
based
Tenant
-based
Special Purpose Voucher
Veterans Affairs
Supportive
Housing
Family
Unification
Program
Disabled
*
Hispanic 0 19 0 136 58 78 2 0 4
Not Hispanic 0 79 0 1,359 242 1,118 15 0 23
*includes Non-Elderly Disabled, Mainstream One-Year, Mainstream Five-year, and Nursing Home Transition Table 34 – Ethnicity of Public Housing Residents by Program Type Data Source: PIC (PIH Information Center)
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Section 504 Needs Assessment: Describe the needs of public housing tenants and applicants on the waiting list for accessible units:
Berkeley Housing Authority (BHA) disposed of its 61 units of low income public housing and is now a voucher-only Housing Authority. Related California acquired all of the public housing units and now operates them as affordable housing. Most of these units currently receive Project-based vouchers. In the Section 8 Program, the waitlist last opened in 2010, with over 37,000 applicants (1,500 were selected randomly for the Tenant-based waitlist; 1,500 were selected randomly for the Project-based waitlist). Twenty percent of applicants indicated on their application that they were disabled. There is a lack of affordable fully accessible units, specifically with roll in showers for wheelchair-reliant individuals and others with significant mobility impairments. The Center for Independent Living, located in Berkeley and funded by the City of Berkeley, has limited funds to offer minor remodeling of current homes including rentals (ramps, grab bars, hearing and visual impaired door bells and alarms), but the demand outweighs the supply.
Most immediate needs of residents of Public Housing and Housing Choice voucher holders The most immediate need of voucher holders is an adequate supply of affordable rental housing units for the demand of low income households that wish to participate in the Housing Choice Voucher Program in Berkeley. Even with a Payment Standard at the maximum allowable of 110 percent of the Fair Market Rent (FMR), there are still challenges with attracting landlords willing to rent to extremely low income households. For tenants needing accessible units, it is even more difficult. Finding those accessible units in the limited pool of affordable units limits options even further. BHA would like to implement a landlord retention program to attract new landlords and encourage currently participating landlords to work with BHA again. One option is piloting a damage claim program to provide funding to landlords to make repairs upon a vacancy. This would necessitate obtaining funding from outside sources, such as the City of Berkeley.
How do these needs compare to the housing needs of the population at large There is a significant shortage of accessible housing units for households of all income ranges. Professionals earning high salaries are better able to pay higher market rents, and this drives the rental market higher in Berkeley. Data from Zumper.com shows San Francisco has the most expensive rents in the country, averaging $4,670 for a 2-bedroom unit (https://www.zumper.com/). BHA’s Payment Standard for a 2-bedroom unit is $2,336 (the 4-bedroom Payment Standard is $3,945).
Discussion
The extremely high cost rental market in Berkeley and the rest of the Bay Area poses challenges for all but the highest income households. Unfortunately, even having a Housing Choice Voucher no longer guarantees finding housing in Berkeley will be possible.
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NA-40 Homeless Needs Assessment – 91.205(c)
Introduction:
The City of Berkeley adopted the EveryOne Home Plan to End Homelessness: 2018 Strategic Update (http://everyonehome.org/about/the-plan/) in 2019 with a goal of broadening the City’s approach to services and housing to allow for better outcomes among people with long-term homeless histories and severe disabling conditions. As required by HUD, Alameda County conducts a countywide homeless count every other year but a city-level count occurs when resources permit. The most recent comprehensive data available on Berkeley’s homeless population comes from the 2019 homeless count.
In 2019 the survey found that Berkeley has 1,108 literally homeless people on any given night. HUD defines literally homeless people as those who are residing on the streets, in places not meant for human habitation, in shelters or in transitional housing programs.
The data show:
• Berkeley’s total homeless population in 2019 represents 14 percent of the County’s homeless population, while Berkeley has seven percent of the County’s overall population (2018). • Berkeley’s homeless are mostly adults in households with no children (95 percent), while adults with no children make up 93 percent of the homeless population countywide. • 35 percent (387 people) of homeless people in Berkeley met HUD’s definition of chronically homeless—a single adult with a disability, homeless for one year consecutively or 4 or more times in 3 years. In Berkeley chronically homeless adults make up a greater portion of the homeless population (35%) than chronically homeless adults do in Alameda County as a whole (28%).
• 42percent of Berkeley’s homeless have a have psychiatric/emotional conditions, compared to 39 percent countywide.
• 32 percent of Berkeley’s homeless have reported alcohol and drug use compared to 30 percent of Alameda County’s homeless population.
• Seven percent of Berkeley’s homeless population are veterans, compared to eight percent countywide.
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Homeless Needs Assessment
Population Estimate the # of
persons experiencing
homelessness on a
given night
Estimate the
#
experiencing
homelessness
each year
Estimate
the #
becoming
homeless
each year
Estimate the
# exiting
homelessness
each year
Estimate the
# of days
persons
experience
homelessness
Sheltered Unsheltered
Persons in
Households
with Adult(s)
and Child(ren) 51 104 47 20 Not Available
Persons in
Households
with Only
Children 1 20 1 10 Not Available
Persons in
Households
with Only
Adults 243 813 2,154 896 376 Not Available
Chronically
Homeless
Individuals 159 228 750 313 131 Not Available
Chronically
Homeless
Families 0 0 0 0 0 Not Available
Veterans 21 60 165 66 28 Not Available
Unaccompanied
Child 0 0 0 0 0 Not Available
Persons with
HIV 49 17 136 57 24 Not Available
Table 35 - Homeless Needs Assessment
Data Source Comments: Alameda County 2019 Homeless Count and Survey and City of Berkeley 1,000 Person Plan.
Indicate if the homeless population is rural:
Not Applicable. Jurisdiction has no rural homeless
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If data is not available for the categories "number of persons becoming and exiting homelessness each year," and "number of days that persons experience homelessness," describe these categories for each homeless population type (including chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth):
Berkeley’s total homeless population represents 14 percent of the County’s homeless population, while Berkeley has seven percent of the County’s overall population (2018). Berkeley has a greater share of chronically homeless adults (35 percent). Berkeley’s homeless are mostly adults in households with no children (95 percent), while adults with no children make up only 93 percent of the homeless population countywide. Thirty-five percent (387 people) of homeless people in Berkeley met HUD’s definition of chronically homeless—a single adult with a disability, homeless for one year consecutively or 4 or more times in 3 years. Forty-two percent of Berkeley’s homeless have a psychiatric/emotional conditions, compared to 39 percent countywide. Thirty-two percent of Berkeley’s homeless report alcohol and drug use, compared to 30 percent of Alameda County’s homeless population. Seven percent of Berkeley’s homeless population are veterans, compared to nine percent countywide.
Nature and Extent of Homelessness: (Optional)
Race: Sheltered: Unsheltered (optional)
White 104 Not Available
Black or African American 269 Not Available
Asian 9 Not Available
American Indian or Alaska
Native 5 Not Available
Pacific Islander 5 Not Available
Ethnicity: Sheltered: Unsheltered (optional)
Hispanic 63 Not Available
Not Hispanic 372 Not Available
Figure 1 – Nature and Extent of Homelessness
Data Source Comments:
Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) Shelter and Emergency Shelter Demographic Report for PY 2018
Estimate the number and type of families in need of housing assistance for families with children and the families of veterans.
According to the 2019 count, there were 51 people in 19 households. Two-thirds of the families reported living with a health condition.
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Describe the Nature and Extent of Homelessness by Racial and Ethnic Group.
Fifty-seven percent of the homeless service users during the 2019 Homeless Count and Survey were African-American even though they only make up nine percent of Berkeley’s general population.
Twenty-nine percent were white, even though they made up 60 percent of the population Berkeley had a much smaller percentage of Hispanic/Latino service users (12 percent) than the county as a whole (17 percent).
Describe the Nature and Extent of Unsheltered and Sheltered Homelessness.
The 2019 count found a total of 1,108 people homeless in Berkeley. This includes 813 people who were living on the streets, in abandoned buildings, storage structures, vehicles, encampments, or any other place unfit for human habitation and 295 who were living in a shelter or transitional housing.
Of the 1,108 literally homeless people, 813 or 73 percent, were living in unsheltered situations. The vast majority of unsheltered homeless are men. Seventy-three percent of the homeless population is between the ages of 25-59. Forty-nine percent of the unsheltered population had been homeless for more than a year. For more information see https://everyonehome.org/wp- content/uploads/2019/09/2019HIRDReport_Berkeley_2019-Final.pdf.
Discussion:
N/A
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NA-45 Non-Homeless Special Needs Assessment - 91.205 (b,d) Introduction:
The special needs population consists of persons who are not homeless but requires supportive housing and services for various reasons. This population includes (but is not limited to) persons with mental, physical, and/or developmental disabilities; the elderly and frail elderly; persons with alcohol or other drug addiction; persons with HIV/AIDS and their families; victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and transitional age youth.
Describe the characteristics of special needs populations in your community:
Persons with Mental, Physical, and/or Development Disabilities
People with disabilities often have special housing requirements due to the need for accessibility, frequently fixed low incomes, and higher health care costs associated with a disability. According to the 2018 ACS population estimate, just over nine percent (9.1%) of the total Berkeley population had one or more disabilities, compared to just less than nine percent (8.6%) in Alameda County. The ACS identifies disability as having difficulty with one or more of four basic areas of functioning—hearing, vision, cognition, and ambulation—and/or difficulty performing everyday tasks such as, bathing, dressing and/or running errands.
Elderly and Frail Elderly
The 2013-17 ACS data reports that 13.5 percent of Berkeley’s population is over 65, and that 23.7 percent of all Berkeley households are led by a senior householder. This is equivalent to 10,782 senior- headed households, 73.5 percent of which are owners 45.6 percent of seniors live alone and 22.2 percent of Berkeley households have one or more people over the age of 65 living in the home.
One of the main housing issues facing seniors is housing cost. From 2013-2017, more than 19 percent of senior-headed households had income levels below the federal poverty guidelines. Seniors often have fixed incomes so they have difficulty with increased rental and utility costs or housing maintenance costs. 27.4 percent of seniors in Berkeley received supplemental security income (SSI) and/or cash public assistance. According to the Age-Friendly Berkeley report and plan estimates from 2014 indicate that 23 percent of Berkeley residents 60 years of age and older were living under 200 percent of the federal poverty level (https://www.agefriendlyberkeley.org/).
According to the 2013-2017 ACS estimate, 73.5 percent of senior households owned homes, and 26.5 percent were renters. In terms of housing cost burden, 27.7 percent of senior homeowner households and 55.6 percent of senior renter households were overpaying for housing, which is defined as paying more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs. The Age-Friendly Berkeley plan, identifies housing as a specific area of importance with three of the top 10 concerns for Berkeley adults 60 years of age and older being 1) affordable housing, 2) being able to maintain their home, and 3) being able to stay in their home.
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Also according to the ACS 2013-2017 data, seniors also have a higher rate of disability that increases as people age, with 16.7 percent of persons 65 to 74 years of age and 42.4 percent of persons 75 years and over having a disability, compared to the total population at nearly nine percent (8.6%). Ambulatory and independent living difficulties are most common within the senior population. Between 2013 and 2017,
15.5 percent of all elderly households had ambulatory difficulty and 13.2 percent had an independent living difficulty or limitation.
Among the goals that Berkeley identified in the Alameda County Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice is to “support shared housing opportunities for seniors and other special needs populations.” To accomplish this, the City of Berkeley will consider programs to match seniors with underutilized living space with appropriate homeseekers on a voluntary basis. The Age-Friendly Berkeley webpage already notes that programs such as this are currently under consideration with UC Berkeley students and can serve a dual purpose of 1) providing seniors with minor non-medical assistance and supplemental income and 2) providing homeseekers with an affordable shared housing unit. In addition, shared rental housing can be an appropriate way to increase housing affordability for seniors and non- senior low-income single individuals or small households. Shared housing programs could be administered directly by the City of Berkeley or by contract with local fair housing service providers.
While there are not currently resources available, this is an identified priority.
Persons with Alcohol or Other Drug Addictions
Comprehensive local data on the number of people with alcohol and other drug addiction is not available. However, the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (https://nsduhweb.rti.org/respweb/homepage.cfm) estimated that seven and a half percent of the American population ages 12 or older have substance use disorder. If this statistic is accurate for Berkeley, approximately 8,804 people (based on ACS 2015 population data) have substance use disorder. The survey also estimated that 47.8 percent of current alcohol drinkers participated in binge drinking of alcohol at least once in the 30 days prior to the survey and 24.9 percent of those binge alcohol users were heavy drinkers. Estimates of self-reported alcohol and other drug addictions among the homeless population are mentioned above.
Victims of Domestic Violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking The City has seen an increase in domestic violence-related calls for assistance to the Berkeley Police Department. From 2009-2016, there was an average of 169 domestic violence-related calls per year while the most recent data (2017-2018) shows an average of 224 domestic violence-related calls per year (State of California Department of Justice, http://oag.ca.gov/crime/cjsc/stats/domestic-violence).
The increase likely means that more individuals and families will require housing assistance in order to safely relocate.
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Berkeley, 40 percent reported family/domestic violence, compared to five percent of all survey respondents. Additionally, 25 percent of respondents in the city of Berkeley reported a history of ever experiencing physical, emotional, or sexual abuse by a relative or by a person with whom they have lived, such as a spouse, partner, sibling, parent, or roommate, compared to 26 percent of respondents countywide.
What are the housing and supportive service needs of these populations and how are these needs determined?
The primary need for Non-Homeless Special Needs populations is for housing that is subsidized deeply enough to be affordable at extremely low income levels. Many seniors and people with disabilities have some form of income from the Social Services Administration, which, as described in the Housing Market Analysis, is simply not sufficient to pay for market-rate or much of the affordable housing in Berkeley. Despite Social Security Income increasing over one percent (1.6%) in January 2020 from 2019 levels (https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/SSI.html), the cost of living adjustment is not enough to match Berkeley’s region. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news- release/consumerpriceindex_sanfrancisco.htm), the consumer price index for the San Francisco- Oakland-Hayward area in October 2019 increased by three percent from 2018 and is anticipated to follow this trend in 2020. Even those who do not require supportive housing (meaning affordable housing with connected supportive services) need affordable housing.
Other needs include:
• Home rehabilitation for health and safety needs and accessibility; • Supportive services that include enough flexibility in type, intensity, and duration to support people to stay stably housed;
• Services that help people who are eligible to access entitlements such as SSI and Medi-Cal, to increase their housing and service options; and
• Education and employment programs which help people increase their income.
These needs are evidenced by applications for funding from local non-profit agencies providing services to the special needs populations listed above. The City’s last major planning initiative for homeless and special needs housing was the adoption of the update to the EveryOne Home Plan and an analysis of homeless needs presented to City Council in April 2019.
Discuss the size and characteristics of the population with HIV/AIDS and their families within the Eligible Metropolitan Statistical Area:
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is an infection that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). According to the Center for Disease Control
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increase in minorities, especially African Americans and Latino populations. Disproportionate rates of HIV in these minority groups leads to an even more disproportionate rate of AIDS for these same groups. HIV/AIDS primarily affects men who engage in male-to-male sexual contact and women who engage in heterosexual sex, and intravenous/injection drug use.
In Berkeley HIV/AIDS infections and death are decreasing. The rate of new AIDS cases occurring annually in Berkeley has fallen steadily over the last decade. The Berkeley 2018 Health Status Report (https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/City_Manager/Press_Releases/2018/2018-health- status-report-berkeley.pdf) indicates that Berkeley’s rate of new cases continues to meet the Healthy People 2020 goal of fewer than 13 new cases per 100,000 population annually. Berkeley’s 2018 Health Status Report states due to better treatment, people with HIV are living longer, and the overall number of people living with HIV is increasing. Berkeley has a higher rate of persons living with HIV than Alameda County and California. Antiretroviral drugs account for the reduction in number of HIV cases that progress to AIDS and for the decline in deaths attributable to AIDS.
Discussion:
Alameda County Housing and Community Development administers the allocation of Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) funds on behalf of the City of Oakland for the metropolitan area which includes Berkeley. Over the years, Berkeley has provided Housing Trust Fund funding to projects which include HOPWA units targeted to people living with HIV/AIDS, including to the University Neighborhood Apartments, Oxford Plaza, UA Homes, and Grayson Street Apartments projects.
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NA-50 Non-Housing Community Development Needs – 91.215 (f) Describe the jurisdiction’s need for Public Facilities:
The City of Berkeley’s General Plan adopted several policies and actions which addressed the City’s need for public facilities. Some of these policies and actions include the following:
• Ensure neighborhoods are well served by community services and facilities such as parks, schools, child-care facilities, and religious institutions; • Establish a network of community centers including school sites, neighborhood resource centers, and City facilities that offer community services such as child care, health care, and recreational programs;
• Create new open space and recreational resources throughout Berkeley and preserve, maintain, and repair the City’s existing open space and recreational resources and facilities; and • Provide properly staffed and equipped fire stations and engine companies.
How were these needs determined?
The City’s General Plan was developed through many community meetings, public workshops, and the efforts of City Council, Planning Commission, and City staff. During the drafting of the Consolidated Plan, there were several community meetings in which the need for public facilities and their maintenance were discussed. For instance, the City’s three senior centers were built in 1977, 1979, and 1980 and had not been renovated after 30 years of intensive use until recently using, in part, CDBG funding. These public facilities are critical infrastructure for the delivery of public services, and emergency shelter, and are therefore a high priority. Although the City prioritizes its CDBG resources to support public services, it has allocated funds for system upgrades at the senior centers along with the rehabilitation of community centers and the public health clinic.
Describe the jurisdiction’s need for Public Improvements:
The City’s need for public improvements is described in the City’s Capital Improvement Program, available online at http://www.cityofberkeley.info/CIP/ . Capital improvements include streets, transportation, storm drains, sidewalks, sanitary sewer, parks and marina, information technology, City facilities, equipment, fleet and other infrastructure.
How were these needs determined?
These needs were determined by the City Manager and adopted by City Council during the biennial budget process. The biennial budget cycle begins with the development of the Budget Development instructions, including policy directives. The City Manager reviews and evaluates the baseline budgets and supplemental requests to determine whether they fulfill City Council goals and objectives, improve management effectiveness and service delivery, or increase productivity.
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The City Manager then develops a balanced budget proposal for submission to the Mayor and City Council. Copies of the proposed budget are distributed to all Boards, Commissions, City Departments, and made available to the general public. City Council then holds public meetings to discuss the proposed budget, including at least two formal public hearings.
Describe the jurisdiction’s need for Public Services:
The City has historically funded a wide variety of public services for Berkeley’s diverse population.
Supporting public services will continue to be a high priority for the City. These services could include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Homeless services
• Senior services
• Disabled services
• Legal/advocacy services
• Youth services
• Transportation services
• Substance abuse services
• Services for battered/abused spouses
• Employment training
• Childcare services
• Health services
• Mental health services
• Fair housing related services
How were these needs determined?
The City has historically funded a wide array of public services based on community input. The vast majority of public services are funded with local sources, including General Fund, instead of federal funds. For public services funded with local sources, the needs are determined by the same process outlined above for public improvements. For public services funded with federal funding, the needs are determined by public hearings, commission review, consultation with local non-profit agencies providing the services, and client-level surveys.
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Housing Market Analysis
MA-05 Overview
Housing Market Analysis Overview:
The purpose of the Market Analysis is to provide a clear picture of the environment in which the City will administer its CDBG, HOME, and ESG programs over the course of this Consolidated Plan. In conjunction with the Needs Assessment, this chapter will provide the basis for the Strategic Plan and the programs and projects to be administered. Most of the data tables in this section are populated with default data developed by the Census Bureau for HUD based on 2011 – 2015 American Community Survey (ACS) Census. Other sources are noted throughout the Plan.
The Market Analysis includes the following sections:
• Number of Housing Units
• Cost of Housing
• Condition of Housing
• Public and Assisted Housing
• Homeless Facilities and Services
• Special Needs Facilities and Services
• Barriers to Affordable Housing
• Non-Housing Community Development Assets
• Needs and Market Analysis Discussion
Note: There is no Consolidated Plan generated Table 28 – 30 for Berkeley.
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MA-10 Number of Housing Units – 91.210(a)&(b)(2)
Introduction
Based on the 2013-2017 American Community Survey (ACS) data, there are 45,515 occupied households in the City with a total of 49,137 housing units. Single-units, both detached and attached structures, comprise 46.2 percent of the City’s housing units. Multi-unit structures of two to four units make up 20 percent of total households, while structures with five to 19 units comprise 18 percent, and structures of 20 or more make up 15.5 percent. At the time of the ACS data collection, less than half of one percent (0.3%) of households were mobile homes, however the City estimates that this number may have grown as a result of increasing housing instability. The 2019 Homeless Count and Survey conducted by Applied Survey Research on behalf of the City, as a part of Alameda County’s EveryOne Home effort, estimated that 20 percent of the unsheltered population is living in RVs (161 individuals).
According to Berkeley’s Planning Department annual reports to California’s Department of Finance, Berkeley’s new housing units completed since 2014 include the following:
YEAR SFH 2-4 units 5+
number of affordable
units
2018 60 (53 are ADUs) 10 161 13
2017 45 11 502 167
2016 17 4 226 14
2015 5 2 138 NA
2014 20 4 139 NA
Figure 2 - Projects with Building Permits Finaled in Reporting Year
Source: CA Dept of Finance Annual Reports (2018)
Notes: Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) tracked in 2018, but not in previous years. Affordable Housing not tracked before 2016.
The recent increase in the construction of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), which Berkeley first clearly tracked in 2018, may reflect state and local legislation that went into effect in 2017 to ease land use restrictions and encourage ADU development. Berkeley City Council is considering additional programmatic investment to encourage ADU construction, as well as an amnesty program to incentivize the legalization of existing but unpermitted ADUs to increase the supply of overall units.
Most of Berkeley’s buildings were constructed between 1875 and 1940. Densities are greatest in the areas close to the University campus and Downtown, where there are multi-unit apartment buildings and large single-family homes converted to rooming houses or apartments. Density can also be found along the main arterials of the city in both older and new apartment buildings. The majority of the city is characterized by small lots with one to four units.
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According to the 2015-2023 Housing Element (https://www.cityofberkeley.info/housingelement/), the City of Berkeley has capacity for approximately 5,328 new units on underutilized parcels throughout the City. The City identified four main areas with the greatest potential for new units and a track record of units being built. These are the downtown area, the southside area, the commercial corridors, and vacant lots in the residential districts. For the period 2014-2022, the City estimates that the capacity for 997 units can be built in the downtown, 430 units in the Southside, 1,794 units in the commercial corridors, and 237 units in the residential districts.
All residential properties by number of units
Property Type Number %
1-unit detached structure 21,585 43%
1-unit, attached structure 1,880 4%
2-4 units 9,495 19%
5-19 units 8,820 18%
20 or more units 7,765 16%
Mobile Home, boat, RV, van, etc 130 0%
Total 49,675 100%
Table 36 – Residential Properties by Unit Number
Data Source: 2011-2015 ACS
Unit Size by Tenure
Owners Renters
Number % Number %
No bedroom 135 <1% 3,455 13%
1 bedroom 1,290 7% 10,485 40%
2 bedrooms 5,510 28% 8,440 32%
3 or more bedrooms 12,640 65% 3,960 15%
Total 19,575 100% 26,340 100%
Table 37 – Unit Size by Tenure
Data Source: 2011-2015 ACS
Describe the number and targeting (income level/type of family served) of units assisted with federal, state, and local programs.
Under the City of Berkeley’s Housing Trust Fund (HTF), the City of Berkeley has assisted the development of 54 properties consisting of 1,331 rental housing units and 107 homeownership units. Of the 1,331 rental housing units, 68 percent of the units serve extremely low and low income families and individuals; 35 percent are designated specifically for extremely low and low-income seniors; and 20 percent serve a targeted special needs population, including formerly homeless, people with physical and/or development disabilities, people with AIDS and Transition-Aged Youth. Of the 107 Attachment 4
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HTF-funded homeownership units, 71 must be occupied by low- to moderate-income families and individuals. Each homeownership unit is subject to a regulatory agreement which requires long-term affordability and restricts resale of the affordable unit to another low income first-time homebuyer during the affordability period.
Since the inception of the HTF in 1990, the City has invested over $50 million, including the City’s allocation of federal HOME and CDBG funds, former redevelopment funds, City general funds and other local sources of funding. The City’s investment has enabled local nonprofit project sponsors to secure over $208 million in other financing, including low income housing tax credits, state Multifamily Housing Program funds, and in a few projects, federal New Markets Tax Credits. The majority of the City-assisted housing projects is 100 percent affordable and meets the deepest affordability levels per the City’s Housing Trust Fund guidelines. Under the City’s guidelines, project sponsors are required to set aside at least 60 percent of all the units for extremely low and very low income households, including a 20 percent set-aside for families and individuals who are extremely low-income.
Berkeley has made significant strides in expanding local funds to address the needs of displaced residents and the region’s increasingly unaffordable housing prices. Since the previous submission of the City’s Consolidated Plan, Berkeley voters approved three new sources of revenue to focus on affordable housing and programs addressing homelessness. Alameda County also created new affordable housing funding programs through which Berkeley has access to additional funding.
Berkeley’s Measure U1 was passed in 2016 as a business license tax ordinance to permanently increase the gross receipts tax on owners of five or more residential units from just over one percent (1.081%) to nearly three percent (2.880%). While tax proceeds are deposited in the City’s general funds, the City is required to consider the Housing Advisory Commission’s recommendations for the use of funds to increase affordable housing and protect Berkeley residents from homelessness. Since its passage, Measure U1 has resulted in nearly $11 million in additional tax revenue. The City has committed funds to anti-displacement programs at community based organizations, the new Small Sites loan program, affordable housing predevelopment loans, and a housing planning grant for the Berkeley Unified School District.
With $1 million set aside from Measure U1 funds collected in 2017, 2018 witnessed the start of Berkeley’s Small Sites Program, focused on the acquisition and renovation of small, multifamily rental properties with up to 25 units. In 2019 the City awarded $950,000 in Small Sites Program funds to the Bay Area Community Land Trust for the renovation of the eight unit Stuart Street Apartments, targeted for Berkeley Residents making up to 80 percent of Area Median Income.
In November 2018, Berkeley voters approved Measure O and Measure P. Measure O authorizes the issuance of $135 million of general obligation bonds to finance the acquisition and improvement of real property for the purpose of constructing, rehabilitating, or preserving affordable housing for low-, very low-, median-, and middle- income individuals and working families, including teachers, seniors, veterans, homeless students, people of with disabilities, and other vulnerable populations. Measure P increases the tax on the transfer of real property from one and a half percent to two and a half percent Attachment 4
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for property sales and transfers over $1.5 million to fund general city purposes and the establishment of a homeless services panel. Measure P will likely yield $6 to $8 million per year and has stated goals that include funding the rehousing of homeless individuals, as well as mental health needs and other wrap around services.
The City is planning on an initial issuance of Measure O bonds totaling $30 million in early 2020. The City Council decided to make those funds available through the Housing Trust Fund program guidelines.
Measure O and other available funds, including the City’s balance of HOME funds, will go two affordable housing projects with existing fund reservations—2012 Berkeley Way and 1601 Oxford Street—and additional projects selected in a 2019 Request for Proposals process. When completed, 1601 Oxford Street will be a 37-unit rental housing facility primarily for low income seniors and homeless households and 2012 Berkeley Way will include 142 permanent affordable housing units, for very low-income and formerly homeless families and individuals, as well as 32 men’s shelter beds and 12 beds for homeless veterans.
In the 2016 election Alameda County passed Measure A1, a $580 million bond to expand and preserve affordable housing options for renters and homeowners. The bond allows expenditures for down payment assistance, housing preservation loans, homeowner development programs, and the development of new affordable housing. The City received an allocation of about $15 million in A1 funds, which it awarded to Grayson Apartments (22 affordable units) and 2012 Berkeley Way (described above). Berkeley projects were also able to compete for funds in a North County pool, and the Berkeley Way and 1601 Oxford projects also received A1 funds.
Provide an assessment of units expected to be lost from the affordable housing inventory for any reason, such as expiration of Section 8 contracts.
No units are expected to be lost. As required by the State in its Housing Element, the City identified five developments containing 297 restricted units as being at risk since they are in annual renewals of their Section 8 contracts and have no other restrictions on their affordability. However, most of these properties are owned by mission-oriented non-profit organizations and the City does not have any evidence that the owners of any of these properties have any intention of converting to market rate. Of course, all of these properties would be at risk in the event of federal policy changes that reduced or eliminated Section 8 subsidies for these properties. The City informally monitors the status of these developments:
• Bonita House – 2 restricted units;
• Lawrence Moor Manor – 46 restricted units;
• Stuart Pratt Manor – 44 restricted units;
• Redwood Gardens – 169 restricted units; and
• Rosewood Manor – 36 restricted units.
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Does the availability of housing units meet the needs of the population? Despite the City’s commitment to investing in affordable housing, and the many projects and programs that the City has supported, there is not enough affordable housing to meet the needs of the population in Berkeley, throughout the Bay Area and in coastal California. In the November 2018 Measure O ballot language, the City set a goal of achieving 10 percent reserved affordable housing by 2030. The combined funds of Measures U1, O, P and the existing Housing Trust Fund seek to meet this new goal by leveraging county, state and federal funds.
The Bay Area, including Berkeley, has some of the highest housing costs in the country. Real estate website Zillow.com, using data from September 30, 2019, estimates the median rent price in Berkeley to be $3,775, which is higher than the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward Metro Median of $3,400. Using additional data from that time period, Zillow.com lists Berkeley’s median listing price for single family homes is at $998,000, and the median purchase price is actually $1,256,000. These prices do not reflect a market that includes homes easily within reach for those working minimum wage jobs or extremely low, very low, and low income households. The jump in price from the listing price to the purchase price reflects multiple bids and a competitive market.
Part of the challenge contributing to the high cost and housing demand is that the regional housing supply has not grown to meet the regional job economy. According to the San Francisco Planning Urban Research Association (SPUR), as of early 2016, the Bay Area economy had added 480,000 private-sector jobs over the previous five years, but only 50,000 housing units.
In addition to the ongoing needs for housing for extremely low, very low, and low income households, there is evidence that housing is becoming unaffordable for even households above low income levels.
As one example of the local affordability issues, it is very difficult to find housing units for rent at HUD’s Fair Market Rents (FMR) in Berkeley, impacting the City’s Shelter Plus Care program and the Berkeley Housing Authority’s (BHA) Housing Choice Voucher program. BHA reports a 49 percent success rate in leasing up. This means that only 49 percent of vouchers issued in the past 12 months were able to find a unit in Berkeley. The City has also heard from the BHA and social services providers that there are not enough accessible units which are affordable, even for Housing Choice Voucher holders.
New housing developments along the traditional downtown retail corridors are providing market rate housing for higher income residents. Several multi-unit housing projects have recently been entitled or begun construction, including the 12-story apartments at 1951 Shattuck Avenue with 156 units, the Logan Park Apartments at 2352 Shattuck Avenue (204 units), the 2067 University Avenue project with 99 units, and the Aquatic Shattuck at 2628 Shattuck Avenue with 78 units and 2,000 square feet of retail.
Each of these projects are anticipated to lease up quickly, with strong demand driven by regional economic growth as well as the increasing student population at UC Berkeley. As of September 2019, there are 2,458 additional housing units (in 36 distinct projects) in the development pipeline (currently under construction, or seeking approval of building permits or land use permits). This represents an Attachment 4
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eight percent increase from the number of units that were entitled or under construction as of December 2018 (2,268).
Describe the need for specific types of housing:
The 2013-2017 ACS data shows that 42.3 percent of all occupied households (of 45,515 households) in the City are paying too much for their housing costs. A closer look at the data shows the burden is greater for renters (56.1 percent) than owners with mortgages (35.1 percent). This shows the City has a large need for affordable rental units.
As mentioned above, affordable and accessible units have been identified as a need by the BHA. The vast majority of units housing current Section 8 program participant households are 1- and 2-BR units (approximately 80 percent). The remaining 20 percent of the housing stock utilized by our participating households are Studios (nine percent); 3-BRs (10 percent); and 4 BR units (two percent). This aligns with the City’s current rental housing stock with about 53 percent of it consisting of studios and one- bedrooms, although many of them do not have rents affordable at HUD’s FMR and thus not available to Housing Choice Voucher holders.
Discussion
Affordable housing units of all types are needed to meet local housing needs.
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MA-15 Housing Market Analysis: Cost of Housing - 91.210(a) Introduction
The very high cost of housing is Berkeley’s most critical housing issue and creates the most pressing housing need. Data in this section below show that the median home value increased two percent from 2009 to 2015, and the median contract rent rose 23 percent during this same time period. While this data reflects valuations for those years, it does not reflect the current housing market, where market resale prices have far exceeded older home tax valuations. According to Zillow.com, the median sales price percent change from December 2013 to September 2019 actually demonstrated a 42 percent increase. Similarly, Zillow.com’s December 2013 to September 2019 median rental data demonstrates an 18.1 percent increase in rent. These increases far outpace the cost of living.
While incomes have increased, they have not kept pace with housing costs. According to the National Housing Conference’s 2018 Paycheck to Paycheck report (https://www.nhc.org/wp- content/uploads/2019/04/P2P2018_Final.pdf) within Metro rankings, the San Francisco-Oakland- Hayward metropolitan area (which includes Berkeley) is now the most expensive rental market in the nation, and the most expensive ownership market. A 2019 study by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) with the Concord Group (https://www.spur.org/news/2019-02- 21/how-much-housing-should-bay-area-have-built-avoid-current-housing-crisis) found that since 2000, the Bay Area should have added 1.05 million housing units. Instead, only 380,000 units were built during this time — 316,000 market rate and 42,000 subsidized affordable units. This means the region fell short by 700,000 housing units. The study additionally found that since the 1990s, the Bay Area’s median income has grown rapidly from close to $60,000 per year to close to $90,000 (unadjusted for inflation in 2018). While the region became 50 percent wealthier, with the majority of those with higher incomes arrived from outside the region and wealthier new residents outcompeted existing residents in the constrained housing market. This fast paced competition has led to the conditions demonstrated in the Needs Assessment section of this document, particularly in regards to Housing Cost Burdens.
Cost of Housing
Base Year: 2009 Most Recent Year: 2015 % Change
Median Home Value 724,100 741,900 2%
Median Contract Rent 1,058 1,303 23%
Table 38 – Cost of Housing
Data Source: 2005-2009 ACS (Base Year), 2011-2015 ACS (Most Recent Year)
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Rent Paid Number %
Less than $500 2,705 10.3%
$500-999 5,825 22.1%
$1,000-1,499 8,245 31.3%
$1,500-1,999 5,265 20.0%
$2,000 or more 4,290 16.3%
Total 26,330 100.0%
Table 39 - Rent Paid
Data Source: 2011-2015 ACS
Housing Affordability
% Units affordable to Households
earning
Renter Owner
30% HAMFI 2,340 No Data
50% HAMFI 5,590 225
80% HAMFI 11,430 445
100% HAMFI No Data 834
Total 19,360 1,504
Table 40 – Housing Affordability
Data Source: 2011-2015 CHAS
Monthly Rent
Monthly Rent ($) Efficiency (no
bedroom)
1 Bedroom 2 Bedroom 3 Bedroom 4 Bedroom
Fair Market Rent 1,540 1,855 2,329 3,219 3,946
High HOME Rent 1,369 1,468 1,763 2,028 2,243
Low HOME Rent 1,017 1,090 1,307 1,510 1,685
Table 41 – Monthly Rent
Data Source: HUD FMR and HOME Rents
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Figure 3 - Median Home Sales Price (all for sale home types), Berkeley and Alameda County, 2010- 2019
Source: https://www.zillow.com/berkeley-ca/home-values/
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Is there sufficient housing for households at all income levels? There is probably not sufficient housing for households at all income levels, evidenced by Berkeley being situated within the metro area with the nation’s highest rents and home prices combined with a historically low vacancy rate.
How is affordability of housing likely to change considering changes to home values and/or rents?
Given recent trends in the Bay Area, it is likely that home values and rents will continue to increase.
Berkeley’s homeownership market remains particularly stable and attractive. Despite Zillow.com’s 2019 predictions that foreclosures will be a factor impacting home values in the next several years, in Berkeley 0.0 homes are foreclosed per 10,000, which is lower than the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward Metro value of 0.1 and lower than the national value of 1.2 (https://www.zillow.com/berkeley- ca/home-values/). Mortgage delinquency, a frequent indicator of potential foreclosure is a fraction of one percent (0.2%) in Berkeley, compared to the national value of just over one percent (1.1%). Nationally, as a result of the recession, home values fell by more than 20 percent from their peak in 2007 until their trough in late 2011, with many homeowners now underwater on their mortgages. Dips in home values adjusted relatively quickly after the recession in Berkeley and remain high. The percent of Berkeley homeowners underwater on their mortgage is less than one percent (0.9%), which is lower than San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward Metro at almost three percent (2.7%). This homeowner resiliency is a byproduct of high wage earners currently holding the recently sold market rate homes within Berkeley, with the continually increasing prices discussed in the prior section ($1.26 million median sales price in September 2019).
Rental stock in Berkeley, both market rate and affordable, will significantly increase if currently entitled projects are occupied in the next two years, but the demand will remain high. As mentioned in the Needs Assessment, the University of California at Berkeley increased student enrollment by 11,000 students from original projections of enrollment from 2005-2020. The influx of students from 2005- 2020, which is far greater in number than newly constructed university housing units, will continue to impact competition for rental units within the City.
Trends in regional job growth additionally point to sustained or increasing housing costs. According to the Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy (http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/bay- area-job-watch-33/), a program of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, 2018 Bay Area labor force participation rates were at record levels as residents who had previously dropped out of the workforce found eager employers. Job growth is continuing despite the lack of affordable housing, and the region has seen a notable increase in out migration (a result of the high housing costs) and an increase in high wage foreign migration.
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