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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The City of Santa Ana is the recipient of federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME), Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG), and Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS ( HOPWA) funds.' The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides these funds to the City on a formula basis. As a recipient of these funds, the City is required to prepare a five -year strategic plan that identifies housing and community needs of the City, prioritizes these needs, identifies resources to address needs, and establishes annual goals and objectives to meet needs. This five -year strategic plan is known as the Consolidated Plan. In addition to updating the Consolidated Plan on an annual basis, through an annual action plan, the City of Santa Ana is required to provide the public and HUD with an assessment of its accomplishments utilizing these funds at the end of each fiscal year. This annual assessment is known as the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). This CAPER has been prepared to meet HUD's requirements for annual performance evaluation. This document provides a review and evaluation of the City's performance over the 2003 -2004 Fiscal year (a.k.a. report period), and the five -year timeframe of the 2000 -2004 Consolidated Plan. The 2003 -2004 report period began July 1, 2003 and ended June 30, 2004. This report includes summaries of the City's accomplishments for the CDBG, HOME, ESG and HOPWA programs, and a summary of the process the City implemented to ensure the public had the opportunity to review a draft of this document prior to its submission to HUD. The CAPER also incorporates a summary of public comments received by the City during a 15 -day comment period held from August 24 through September 7, 2004. Also incorporated into this document are reports generated by HUD's Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS). These HUD reports provide information that has been entered into the national database and summarizes the City's accomplishments for the 2003 -2004 report period. During the 2003 -2004 report period, the City continued efforts to address the priority housing and community needs identified in the 2000 -2004 Consolidated Plan. For example, the City's supply of affordable housing was expanded and upgraded during the report period. Funding was provided to rehabilitate 37 owner - occupied housing units. Public funding was also provided to assist with the rehabilitation of 74 rental units; a portion of these units are owned and managed by a Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO).3 Additionally, a partnership between the City of Santa Ana and Habitat For Humanity provided homeownership opportunities for two very low- income households. Five additional first time homebuyers were assisted with ' As Orange County's most populous city, Santa Ana is the recipient of HOPWA funds on behalf of the entire Orange County region. 2 Fifteen units rehabbed with CDBG, 15 units rehabbed with HOME and 7 units rehabbed with Redevelopment funds. 3 Rehabilitation of these units was initiated during the previous report period and completed during the 2003 -2004 reporting period. Rehabilitation of these units utilized a variety of funding sources including HOME, state and Multi - Family Housing Revenue Bonds. 4 19E -7 9!9!04