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DRAFT Redlines <br />Housing Element Section 4B <br />Program 2.8 <br />Support access to rental housing for lower- and moderate-income households, and protect <br />tenants from displacement, through the following programs: <br />1. Work with the Alameda County Housing Authority and other agencies to maintain <br />funding for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program and other Federal subsidy <br />programs. <br />2. Inform owners of rental units of the requirement to accept Section 8 Housing Choice <br />certificates/vouchers and/or Project Based Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers in <br />their developments. <br />3. Apply the provisions of the City’s Condominium Conversion Ordinance, and <br />Government Code, §65863.7 (as to mobile homes) to minimize displacement of <br />renters and protect special needs households. For condominium conversions this <br />includes requirements to maintain rental units for households with special needs <br />including those with developmental disabilities, such as lifetime leases with rental caps <br />for persons with disabilities, to the extent permitted by state law; and denying <br />conversion of apartment units to condominiums if the percentage of multi-family units <br />available for rent, city wide, is below 50 percent. <br />4. Study the development of an enhanced local rental assistance program for the <br />workforce that would help to off-set the costs of market-rate rents for qualifying very- <br />low, low- and moderate-income households, when payment of those rents would result <br />in overpayment or severe overpayment as defined in Appendix A. The City will <br />implement the program unless it is determined it would be financially infeasible, or <br />would negatively affect the City’s ability to fund other housing and human services <br />programs that benefit these same income groups. <br />• Responsible Agency: Housing Division, Planning Division <br />• Time Period: Produce new outreach materials first quarterJanuary 20262025; apply <br />Condominium Conversion Ordinance (ongoing as applications are received); study <br />development of an enhanced rental assistance program by first quarterJanuary 2028 2027 <br />with implementation to follow based on study (2029 and 2030) <br />• Funding Source: Housing Division Budget, Lower-Income Housing Fund. <br />• Quantified Objective: Although Housing Choice Vouchers are portable and administered <br />by Alameda County Housing Authority, the City’s objective is to continue to have at least <br />295 Housing Choice Voucher program participants reside in Pleasanton <br /> <br />