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Page 14 as High HOME units. This is subject to change based upon a final HOME Cost Allocation Analysis to be completed after the HOME Subsidy Layering Review has been performed. General Provisions: The City's obligation to provide the City Assistance to the Project is subject to each of the following conditions: • Developer must provide proof that it has secured all of its remaining financing for the development of the Project in the form of enforceable funding commitments, which may include 9% or 4% Federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits, State Housing Tax Credits, a commitment of affordable housing funds from the County of Orange or State of California, Section 8 project -based vouchers from the Orange County or Santa Ana Housing Authority, or any other funding source needed in the Project's capital stack to develop the Project and close on the financing, before staff will return to the City Council for consideration of the Loan Agreements for the City Assistance. • At least 75% of the affordable units (less one (1) managers unit) in the Project will be restricted to extremely low-income households at 30% of the Area Median Income. • The Project consists of twenty-six (26) permanent supportive housing units for chronically homeless individuals and families. All individuals and families shall be referred from the Orange County Coordinated Entry System, and preference should be given to residents of the City of Santa Ana based upon: o Proof of strong ties to the community, to include current residency of an immediate family member — mother, father, sibling, or grandparent in the City of Santa Ana; o Proof that the individual attended a K-12 school in Santa Ana; o Proof that the individual resided on property zoned for residential use in Santa Ana and the individual was on the lease and/or paid utilities necessary for legal use of the property for residential purposes; or o Knowledge — either first-hand or recorded — by the Santa Ana Police Department that the individual has been a member of the Santa Ana homeless community. • The rent standards for the Project must comply with the strictest of the standards imposed by TCAC and the HOME Program regulations, or other funding sources contributed to the Project, as applicable. • All provided funding and Project requirements shall conform to the City's most recently adopted Affordable Housing Funds Policies and Procedures, unless alternative requirements are expressly provided in the executed Loan Agreements for the City Assistance or any other documents related to the development of the Project.