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AFFIRMATIVE MARKIsTING The City will adopt appropriate procedures and requirements for affirmatively marketing units in rehabilitated projects through the provisions of information regarding the availability of units that are vacant after rehabilitation or that later become vacant. Affirmative marketing steps consist of good faith efforts to provide information and otherwise to attract eligible persons from all racial, ethnic and gender groups in the housing; market area to the available housing. (These affirmative marketing procedures will not apply to units rented to families with ,housing assistance provided by PHA). The City will establish procedures, requirements and assessment criteria for marketing; units in the rental rehabilitation program in the rental re- habilitation program that are appropriate to accomplish affirmative marketing objectives. The City will annually assess the affirmative marketing program to determine: good faith efforts that have been made to carry out such procedures and requirements; objectives that have been met; corrective actions that are required. The City will develop and adopt procedures on Lheifollowing: Methods for informing the pubic, owners and PyLentia.l tenants about Federal fair housing laws and the grantee's affirmative marketing policy (such as the use of the Equal. Housing Opportunity logotype or slogan in press releases and solicitations for owners, and written c o loll U Q u a L i o n S Lo fair housing and other groups. Requirements and practices each owner must adhere to in order to carry out the grantee's affirmative marketing procedures and requirements (e.g.,use of commercial media, use of community contacts, use of the Equal Housing; Opportunity logotype or slogan, display of fair housing poster). Procedures to be used by owners to inform and solicit appli- cations from persons in the housing market area who are not likely to apply for the housing without spec:i_al. outreach (e.g., use of community organizations, churches, employment centers, fair housing groups or housing; counseling agencies). Records that will be kept describing efforts taken by the r grantee and by the owners to affirmatively market units and records to assess the results of these actions. A description of how the grantee will assess the affirmative efforts of owners, and the results of those efforts, and what corrective actions will be taken where an owner fails to follow these affirmative marketing requirements. So Cer fled. Ci y Manager 6r 3.1 N.T��j li.1, iiil7J �d4+� Di, M.