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Strategies: <br />1. Explore the creation of a new countywide affordable housing bond. <br />2. Provide low -interest loans to single-family homeowners and grants to homeowners with <br />household incomes of up to 120% of the Area Median Income to develop accessory <br />dwelling units with affordability restriction on their property. <br />3. Review existing zoning policies and explore zoning changes to facilitate the development <br />of affordable housing. <br />4. Align zoning codes to conform to recent California affordable housing legislation. <br />Goal 2: Prevent displacement of low- and moderate -income residents with protected <br />characteristics, including Hispanic residents, Vietnamese residents, seniors, and people with <br />disabilities. <br />Strategies: <br />1. Explore piloting a Right to Counsel Program to ensure legal representation for tenants in <br />landlord -tenant proceedings, including those involving the application of new laws like <br />A.B. 1482. <br />Goal 3: Increase community integration for persons with disabilities. <br />Strategies: <br />1. Conduct targeted outreach and provide tenant application assistance and support to persons <br />with disabilities, including individuals transitioning from institutional settings and <br />individuals who are at risk of institutionalization. As part of that assistance, maintain a <br />database of housing that is accessible to persons with disabilities. <br />2. Consider adopting the accessibility standards adopted by the City of Los Angeles, which <br />require at least 15% of all new units in city -supported LIHTC projects to be ADA- <br />accessible with at least 4% of total units to be accessible for persons with hearing and/or <br />vision disabilities. <br />Goal 4: Ensure equal access to housing for persons with protected characteristics, who are <br />disproportionately likely to be lower -income and to experience homelessness. <br />Strategies: <br />1. Reduce barriers to accessing rental housing by eliminating application fees for voucher <br />holders and encouraging landlords to follow HUD's guidance on the use of criminal <br />backgrounds in screening tenants. <br />2. Incorporate a fair housing equity analysis into the review of significant rezoning proposals <br />and specific plans. <br />Goal 5: Expand access to opportunity for protected classes. <br />6 <br />75A-285 <br />