§99.0101 Purpose

This chapter provides for the administration and financing of a Rehabilitation Assistance Program (RAP) in the City of San Diego. The provisions of this chapter constitute the City’s comprehensive residential rehabilitation financing program adopted pursuant to the Marks Foran Residential Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 37910, et seq., of the California Health and Safety Code. The purpose of RAP is to improve the condition of housing and the quality of life in San Diego by providing a means through which property owners in voluntarily designated residential areas in San Diego which are deteriorating may obtain financial assistance to rehabilitate their property. It shall be the policy of RAP in San Diego to preserve and improve existing residential neighborhoods. The methods to be used consist of concentrated code enforcement, relocation assistance, low–cost, long–term loans for property rehabilitation, and public improvements necessary to ensure the successful rehabilitation of the area, and it shall be the policy of the City to provide adequate funding for these purposes as funds are available.

(“Purpose” added 1–23–1975 by O–11483 N.S.)