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home ownership opportunities, creating and preserving affordable rental and homeownership housing, and reducing housing discrimination. Our tenant legal services directly support low-income Pleasanton tenants dealing with housing discrimination. We provide fair housing and landlord/tenant services to low-income tenants on a variety of issues that involve a risk of displacement. Additionally, our services focus on anti-displacement and homelessness prevention, and therefore align very well with the second HUD Strategic Goal. One of the clients we assisted faced an eviction case after the landlord refused to accept a late rent payment. We successfully litigated the case and negotiated an agreement that resulted in additional time to move and a waiver of past-due rent to facilitate the tenants’ move. The tenants sought to move due to frustration with their landlord. The case was dismissed after our clients complied with the agreement. In another case, we negotiated an agreement that allowed the tenant to remain in their home as part of a “pay and stay” agreement. The tenant did not seek to have any rent waived since they did not want to owe money to their landlord, and both parties entered into the agreement. For the HUD Priority Needs, our project supports low-income Pleasanton tenants with legal housing issues, which includes preserving affordable rental housing and reducing housing discrimination through fair housing and landlord/tenant services. 15. Describe the original purpose for this grant. Will you spend your entire grant? If not, explain why your agency will not be able to spend the entire grant amount. The original purpose of this grant was the following: Centro Legal proposes to provide legal consultations, representation, outreach, and tenant education services to low-income Pleasanton tenants facing housing instability, eviction and potential displacement. Additionally, we will advise and assist clients with other tenant/landlord related matters and provide legal representation when appropriate. Our services model provides pre-eviction consultation in addition to eviction representation, and through outreach and education, we are able to address threats to housing stability early. Information sharing through know-your- rights workshops empowers communities to assert their rights. Centro Legal’s proposed staffing pattern for this program reflects a multilingual/multicultural team of staff, ensuring access to interpretation services for all residents participating in this program. Pleasanton tenants will access this project with the help of outreach efforts including flyering and partnerships with community-based organizations, Tri-Valley specific know-your-rights workshops that will include 1:1 consultations, and through a position we created within the Tenants' Rights team to handle direct referrals from our EFA staff when EFA applicants have questions about their rights. This helps us connect with tenants who are at increased risk of displacement. Alameda County’s housing crisis and its impact on low-income tenants is currently being exacerbated and amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even after the health impacts of COVID-19 diminish, the economic impacts will continue and low-income tenants will be vulnerable to eviction when they cannot pay rent because they have lost income due to the pandemic. This project will enable us to intervene early and provide advice and representation to prevent displacement. We do anticipate that we will spend down this entire grant.