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Community Perceptions of Affordable Housing. A continuing impediment to affordable housing development is the negative perception of affordable housing held by many members of the public.The City provides local funds annually to East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO) to implement an ongoing program aimed at improving residents' perceptions and understanding of affordable housing. Pleasanton collaborated with its neighbor cities in the Tri-Valley to hold tours of affordable housing developments and issues in 2009 and 2013. The recent Housing Element update processes have provided an additional forum for discussion of affordable housing issues.. In conjunction with other Tri-Valley cities, the City of Pleasanton will work with EBHO in FY 2014 in activities related to Affordable Housing Week, held annually in May This will include media presentations, affordable housing tours, and other activities focusing specifically on affordable housing efforts past, present, and future in the Tri-Valley area. In October 2013, the cities sponsored an event for local landlords in the Tri-Valley area to promote awareness of programs that assist low-income renters (e.g., Section 8, Tri-Valley Housing Scholarship Program, Project Independence, Linkages, etc) with the goal of expanding receptiveness to these programs and clients in a harsh rental market. The City will collaborate with the Rental Housing Association of Southern Alameda County(RHA)in late April 2014 to hold a fair housing workshop for local landlords. The City collaborated with BayEast Association of Realtors in its sponsorship of a "real estate town hall meeting" in April 2011. In May 2009, a similar event also highlighted the National Association of Realtors (NAR) "Ambassadors for Cities" award to BayEast and the City of Pleasanton relative to their support of the.Tri-Valley Housing Opportunity Center (one of only five awards NAR throughout the nation). The next BayEast real estate town hall event is forecast for summer or fall 2014. Annual Action Plan 31. 2014(DRAFT) OMB Control No:2506-0117(exp.07/31/2015)