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Goal 3. Assist low income homeowners with rehabilitation expenses <br />Strategy 1. Provide funding for homeowner occupied rehabilitation programs. <br />Strategy 2. Maintain a list of organizations that may provide assistance with minor rehabilitation <br />or accessibility projects and make it available to persons needing assistance. <br />Impediment 3. Lack of public awareness of fair housing rights <br />Goal 1. Provide fair housing education and outreach activities <br />Strategy 1. Host an annual Fair Housing Workshop targeted toward those working in the housing <br />industry. <br />Strategy 2. Host or participate in homebuyer education workshops that include fair housing as <br />one of the covered topics. <br />Strategy 3. Increase public awareness of their fair housing rights through a number of outreach <br />actions including maintaining an up -to -date Fair Housing section on the website, adding contact information to <br />all housing brochures; publishing information ads periodically; and issuing an annual Fair Housing Month <br />proclamation. <br />Strategy 4. Periodically survey the community to assess any changes in general knowledge and <br />familiarity with fair housing rights. Review fair housing complaint data from all available sources to see if any <br />new patterns emerge. <br />Goal 2. Develop fair housing outreach activities targeted to youth <br />Strategy 1. Host a Fair Housing Poster Contest and provide participants with fair housing basics. <br />Strategy 2. Offer bilingual Fair Housing posters to SMCISD to post in each school. <br />Goal 3. Maintain an up -to -date City of San Marcos Fair Housing policy <br />Strategy 1. Conduct a periodic review of the City's Fair Housing Ordinance /Policy to ensure that it <br />complies with current federal fair housing policy guidelines. <br />Strategy 2. Provide opportunities for City staff to participate in Fair Housing training programs. <br />Strategy 3. Ensure that all personnel who work with housing programs have a thorough <br />understanding of fair housing regulations. <br />Goal 4. Increase awareness of fair housing rights and resources in the young adult population <br />Strategy 1. Work with Texas State University and apartment locator services to disseminate fair <br />housing information to their clients / students. <br />Strategy 2. Make Fair Housing Rights information available to new utility customers. <br />Impediment 4. Impact of subprime lending practices /increased foreclosures <br />Goal 1. Increase public awareness of available programs that help reduce mortgage default rates <br />Strategy 1. Update "Housing' website page to add resources for people facility foreclosures, such <br />as the FHA Resource Center, contact information for housing counseling agencies, and HUD's webpage <br />regarding Predatory Lending. <br />Strategy 2. Include the Don't be a Victim of Loan Fraud fact sheet and /or brochure in all housing <br />incentive applications. <br />Al Action Plan 2 2014 <br />