Res 2025-140 adopting the Community Development Block Grant (“CDBG”) 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan

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City of San Marcos Five Year Consolidated Plan for the 2025-2029 Program Years— FINAL—Last Updated 08/08/25 Executive Summary ES-05 Executive Summary - 24 CFR 91.200(c), 91.220(b) 1. Introduction-The Five-Year Consolidated Plan The Consolidated Plan serves as a five-year road map with goals and strategies to address housing and other needs of low- and moderate-income residents. This plan is a result of input from citizens, community partners, and research to determine needs. The Community Initiatives Division of the Planning and Development Services Department of the City of San Marcos administers and supports programs and projects selected though public processes for the expenditure of federal grant funds. The Five-Year Consolidated Plan serves as the application for funding that is required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Entitlement Funds. This Consolidated Plan will provide guidance for San Marcos for the period of October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2030, for those funds. The City of San Marcos must submit a consolidated plan every five years to illustrate not only its housing and public services needs but also a coordinated plan to meet those needs. The City partners with non-profit entities to implement specific actions associated with the strategies and goals in this Consolidated Plan for CDBG Entitlement Funds. 2. Summary of the objectives and outcomes identified in the Plan The Needs Assessment section covers in detail the housing affordability and social service needs found in the City of San Marcos through public surveys and research of available data. Many apartments in San Marcos are marketed to students using a "rent by the room" model. When the rooms are totaled the cost of the apartments is higher than would be achieved by renting the apartment as a whole. The prevalence of this model reduces the supply of apartments geared toward families,thereby increasing its cost as well.The high cost of rental housing in San Marcos creates instability and an increased risk of homelessness as a by-product. The most common housing problems in San Marcos are: • High rent with low incomes (housing cost burden) Consolidated Plan SAN MARCOS 3