Fair Housing & AB987 Inventory
in Santee, CA
Under direction of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the City of Santee has a responsibility to affirmatively further fair housing.
The City’s Fair Housing program’s purpose is to reduce housing discrimination in the housing rental, sales, lending, and insurance markets on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, familial status (presence of children), or handicap, in compliance with the Fair Housing Act.
The City of Santee has contracted with CSA San Diego County (CSA) to serve as its Fair Housing Program Administrator. CSA is responsible for sponsoring public fair housing educational activities, fair housing outreach activities, and fair housing referral activities, as well as promoting the San Diego Regional Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice, as accepted by the Santee City Council on June 10, 2020.
At-Risk Housing
The City of Santee actively monitors housing at risk of losing affordability restrictions due to a termination of subsidy contract, mortgage prepayment, or expiring use restrictions. The following table is an inventory of affordable housing within the City:
| Project Name | Total Units | Assisted Units | Funding Source | Earliest Date of Conversion | # Units at Risk |
| Cedar Creek Apartments | 48 | 47 | LIHTC | Year 2025 | 47 |
| Revenue Bond | Year 2025 |
| Redevelopment Set-Aside | Year 2065 |
| Forester Square Apartments | 44 | 43 | LIHTC | Year 2025 | 43 |
| Revenue Bond | Year 2025 |
| Redevelopment Set-Aside | Year 2068 |
| Laurel Park Senior Apartments | 133 | 132 | CDLAC Bond | Year 2031 | 132 |
| Woodglen Vista Apartments | 188 | 188 | HFDA/Section 8 | 12/31/2025 | 0 |
| Carlton Country Club Villas | 130 | 121 | Section 236 | | 0 |
| Section 8 | 4/30/2038 |
| Shadow Hill Apartments | 81 | 81 | CDLAC Bond | Year 2065 | 0 |
| Total Assisted Units | 624 | 612 | | | 222 |
| Source: City of Santee, 2020; and the HUD Multifamily Assistance and Section 8 Contracts Database, as of 8/24/2020. |
During the 2021-2031 “at-risk” housing analysis period, three assisted housing projects in Santee are at risk of converting to market-rate housing. As of April 15, 2021, 222 units were at risk of converting to market rate rents. Of these units, 47 are within the Cedar Creek Apartments, 43 within the Forester Square Apartments, and 132 in the Laurel Park Senior Apartments. The Cedar Creek Apartments and Forester Square Apartments units are not in immediate risk of conversion. While the use of LIHTC gives them the relief option of converting to market-rate by 2025, because of the use of redevelopment set-aside funding, these projects are locked into a 55-year affordability period, ending in 2065.
The City proactively monitors these units and, should a notice of intent to convert to market rate be filed, the City will work with potential purchasers to preserve the units, and ensure that tenants were properly notified of their rights under California law.
AB 987
In accordance with the provisions of Assembly Bill (AB) 987, a worksheet describing existing housing units that were either developed or otherwise assisted with Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Funds, has been prepared and posted for public review. Pursuant to AB 987, below is the database of affordable rental units assisted by the former City of Santee Redevelopment Agency.
Also, in accordance with the law, this database does not include any property used to confidentially house victims of domestic violence.
Please be aware that this is simply a listing of affordable housing that has been assisted with low- to moderate-income housing funds: it is not a listing of currently available housing. To determine whether there are vacancies at any of the rental locations, please contact the apartment complexes directly
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