19C - RECEIVE AND FILEL QRT HOUSING DIVISION REPORT

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Quarterly Report for Housing Division February 18, 2020 Page 3 Monitoring As part of the requirements for these funds, staff must monitor the owner -occupancy of single- family homes that have received loans, and the building code compliance of units in rental projects with long-term affordability covenants. During this quarter, 17 owner -occupancy recertification letters were mailed and 33 were returned and processed. This number includes letters sent from previous months. On -site compliance monitoring of the tenant files was also conducted at four affordable housing projects including the Triada at the Station District, Mercy House, The Orchard and American Family Housing. A total of 45 tenant files were audited. 20% of the files were reviewed for compliance at three of the projects and 100% of the files were reviewed for compliance at the fourth project. Staff also conducted building code compliance inspections for 228 units on eighteen (18) properties which represents a sampling of 20% of the total units in the properties. Regulations require that only a sample of units be selected for inspection. Staff also inspects the grounds and common areas such as laundry rooms to ensure they also meet municipal code requirements. The grounds, common areas and all of the inspected units were found to be in compliance at the time of initial inspection. Available Funds and Land Assets for Affordable Housing Development Projects The City of Santa Ana and the Housing Authority acting as the Housing Successor Agency manages multiple sources of local, state and federal funds to promote and facilitate the development of affordable housing as well as land assets held by the Housing Authority. Exhibit 1 provides a summary of the funds available as of December 31, 2019. Exhibit 2 provides a summary of available land assets. Housing Opportunity Ordinance On -Site Development: Since 2011, a total of 33 units have been developed on -site as a result of the Ordinance, including 23 ownership units for -sale and 10 rental units: Units Built On -Site Ownership Rental TOTAL 23 10 33 In -Lieu Fees Generated: All in -lieu fees, penalties and other monies collected pursuant to the Housing Opportunity Ordinance, including interest, are deposited into the Inclusionary Housing Fund. Since inception, the Inclusionary Housing Fund has generated $17,872,871 to be used for the development of housing affordable to low- and moderate -income households, with a reasonable amount spent on administrative or related expenses associated with the administration of the Housing Opportunity Ordinance. These fees were generated from a total of 12 projects that opted to pay the in -lieu fee instead of building units on -site. If those 12 projects had instead built the inclusionary housing units on -site, a total of 409 affordable housing units would have been created. By comparison, there were 2,702 market -rate units produced or are under construction. 19C-3