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PLHA Five-Year Plan The State of California, Department of Housing and Community Development requires entitlement jurisdictions to submit a PLHA Five-Year Plan that will outline in detail the manner in which PLHA allocation funds will be used by the City. The Five-Year Plan is based on Section 302(c)(4) of the CA HCD Guidelines issued for the program in October 2019 and posted on the HCD website (https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and- fundinq/programs-active/permanent-local-housing-allocation). The Draft PLHA Five-Year Plan (Draft Plan) is also required to be available for public comment for a minimum of 10 days prior to a public hearing so that the public has adequate opportunity to review it. A public comment period for the Draft Plan (included in Attachment 2, as a component of the draft application) was held from October 21 through November 1, 2022. The Draft Plan is being presented to City Council to solicit Council and public comments on the Draft Plan, and to approve the plan's submittal along with the City's PLHA application. Note that as an established permanent funding source, there is an expectation that the PLHA program will continue as currently structured after the current five-year plan period ends in 2023. If the City remains eligible to continue to receive PLHA program funds beyond 2023, City staff expects to have the opportunity to revisit the funding allocation and determine if there are other projects, programs, or services to which these funds should be applied in future funding years. Consistency with the Pleasanton Housing Element Application of the PLHA funds must be consistent with the City's Housing Element Plan. Goal 17 of Pleasanton's Housing Element is to: "identify and make special provisions for the community's special-housing needs." Policy 43 aims to: "provide for the special- housing needs of large households, the elderly, persons with disabilities including developmental disabilities, extremely low-income households, the homeless, farmworkers, and families with single-parent heads of households." Additionally, Program 43.1 aims to "continue to provide housing opportunities for households with special needs such as studio and one-bedroom apartments for the elderly and single- person households, three-bedroom apartments for large households, specially designed units for persons with disabilities, SROs, emergency shelter and transitional housing for the homeless, and units affordable to extremely low-, low- and very low-income households with single-parent heads of households or those with disabilities (including developmental disabilities)." /Submitted • ,: Fiscal Review: Approved by: yifA' Ellen Clark Susan Hsieh Gerry Beaudin Director of Community Development Director of Finance City Manager Attachments: Page 4 of 5