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EXHIBIT 1 <br />Executive Summary <br />On April11, 2006, the City of Santa Ana and the former Community Redevelopment Agency of The <br />City of Santa Ana (RDA) entered into a Housing Development Loan Agreement and Affordable <br />Housing Covenants with Mercy House Transitional Living Centers (Mercy House) for the <br />rehabilitation of the Joseph House Project located at 210E. 16th Street. Mercy House operated <br />Joseph House exclusively as a transitional housing program for homeless single men with in the <br />communityfrom 1990 -2015. At the time of the loan agreement in 2006, the City provided HOME <br />Investment Partnership Program (HOME Program) and RDA tax increment funds for the <br />rehabilitation of the property. <br />In 2015, Mercy House submitted a request that was approved by the City and amended the HOME <br />Program agreement to modify the Joseph House Transitional Shelter to a dual-purpose facility <br />offering both transitional housing and permanent housing with supportive services for single, <br />homeless from the community. This included transitioning two of the transitional housing units <br />into permanent housing with supportive services, offering low rental costs in compliance with <br />HOME low rents to meet the needs of low-income and formerly homeless individuals. The <br />remaining unit was kept as transitional housing serving homeless single men. <br />In 2017, Mercy House submitted a request that was approved by the City and amended the HOME <br />Program agreement to modify the Joseph House Transitional Shelter from a dual-purpose facility <br />offering both transitional housing and permanent housing with supportive services for single, <br />homeless from the community to a facility renamed "Joseph Residence" exclusively providing <br />permanent housing with supportive services for single, homeless or low-income men from the <br />community. <br />This document demonstrates Mercy House's plan to further modify Joseph Residence from its <br />current state as a facility exclusively providing permanent housing with supportive services for <br />single, homeless or low-income men to one that provides permanent housing with supportive <br />services to homeless or low-income families. <br />Page 1 of 16 <br />