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■ As EXHIBITS 4 and 6 indicate, most planned community improvement activities will meet or exceeded planned five -year goals. Those activities that have not met five -year goals are typically a result of the lack of projects, i.e., no funding has been requested for an eligible - CDBG project. A handful of activities have become problematic and have required staff scrutiny and additional oversight. While several projects were evaluated for funding consideration, no Neighborhood Sponsored Projects were undertaken during the report period. 2008 -2009 funds will be combined with 2009 -2010 Neighborhood Sponsored projects with the hope of identifying one or more eligible projects. CDBG funding was also allocated to fund a portion of road improvements at Centennial Park. As previously discussed, the City's CDBG- funded Multi - Family Housing Rehabilitation program continues to struggle to fund participants. Program staff continues to evaluate the program in order to find participants. After two years of negotiation, it became apparent that the CDBG- funded Orange County Natural History Museum rehabilitation program would not come to fruition. These project funds have been recaptured and will be reprogrammed. ■ Finally, the Fair Housing Council of Orange County substantially exceeded its planned goal for 2008 -2009; however, for the past three years, the Fair Housing Council had significantly underperformed (33 %, 52% and 60% annual goal attainment in 2005 -2006, 2006 -2007 and 2007 -2008 respectively). Presently this agency has only met 65% of its planned five -year service goals. 3. Are malor goals on target? 4. Barriers that have a negative impact on fulfilling the strategies and overall vision? The City has encountered some barriers as it endeavored to implement its overall vision for community improvement; the most significant include the following: ■ Perhaps the greatest barrier or obstacle impacting the City's ability to implement its community vision has been housing costs. While the cost of home buying has dropped during past 12 months homeownership still remains a challenge for lower income households. During the report period the housing market in Orange County continued to experience high property values and rents. Regionally, the median home purchase prices dropped to $425,000 (10.5% lower than a year earlier) — Santa Ana's median home purchase price dropped to approximately $268,900, 21.6% lower that a year ago.10 Despite 10 O.C. Register, August 7, 2009. Home price data as of July 20, 2009. 35 19F -41 Draft 8/26/2009