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Loan Agreements with <br />Townsend & Raitt, LLC and <br />Authorization of Relocation Plan <br />817 and 821 S. Townsend Street and <br />834 S. Raitt Street <br />January 7, 2008 <br />Page 3 <br />residential property located at 834 S. Raitt Street in an amount <br />not to exceed $1,365,662 and authorize the Executive Director or <br />designee to execute all required documents. <br />Tl T C f`TTC C T!'1T~T <br />The City of Santa Ana has recently formed an interagency task force <br />comprised of the Police Department, Public Works, Planning and Building <br />and the Community Development Agency for the purpose of addressing the <br />multiple quality of life issues that exist in the Townsend-Raitt area. <br />This area is bounded by Raitt Street on the east, McFadden Avenue on the <br />south, an alley on the west, and Monta Vista Street on the north. In a <br />survey conducted by the task force, two of the major issues identified <br />by tenants as impacting the quality of their lives are the dilapidated <br />housing and the high cost of rents. Census updates indicate that in <br />2006 the median household income in this area was $33,304, while it was <br />$54,000 for the City as a whole and $78,300 for Orange County. <br />Townsend & Raitt, LLC is comprised of Orange Housing Development <br />Corporation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) (OHDC), and C & C Development Co., <br />LLC. They are currently in escrow to purchase and rehabilitate two 10 <br />unit and one 11 unit apartment buildings in this area. These units are <br />located at 817 and 821 S. Townsend Street and 834 S. Raitt Street <br />(Exhibit 1) Both OHDC and C & C Development have many years of <br />successful experience owning and operating apartment buildings in other <br />areas facing similar challenges. In Santa Ana they own and operate <br />twenty buildings in the Cornerstone Village project area and recently <br />acquired seventeen buildings in the Wilshire-Minnie area. Part of their <br />success stems from their practice of hands-on management with an <br />emphasis on fair and consistent enforcement of lease agreement <br />conditions. <br />Thirty of the thirty-one total units will be restricted to occupancy by <br />fifty percent (very low-income) of the Area Median Income (AMI). One <br />unit will be reserved for the manager. Rents for one-bedroom units will <br />be $781 and $935 for two-bedroom units. Current residents whose incomes <br />exceed eighty percent of the AMI will be allowed to remain. Rents for <br />these households will be increased to either thirty percent of their <br />monthly household income or market rent for the neighborhood, whichever <br />is lower. <br />80B-3 <br />