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other soda[ service agencies, this should assure that very low income, minority or homeless families would have the opportunity to be informed of available rental units. 4. Documentation by County and owners to assess results of efforts to affirmatively market units. a. The Housing and Community Development Department will maintain an Affirmative Marketing File in which all notices to the media, public service announcements, news articles, and paid advertisements are kept. b. The Housing and Community Development Department ha,s,, developed a rental rehabilitation application form to be used by landlords in accepting applications from prospective tenants. The purpose of this form is: i. To assist the landlord in gathering information such as .rent history and employment, etc. 2. Ta provide notice that the owner adheres to fair housing practices and to encourage citizens to report any d~scrir~ination :to the Housing end Community Development Department. This w~l~ lie another means of notifying the public of their fair housing ~igh~S,',.:. 3. Data concerning the family's race, ethnic`group, sex and age of head of household will be requesteb with an explanation; that the information is being collected voluntarily~fo ass~ren~n~discr~m~r~tion in leasing the unit. 4. To provide the owner a means ;of docurnen~ing~~compliance with affirmative marketing, th,e ov~ner will be regui~ed to retain these applications and submit they ~~ the .Housing and ;Community Development office as each vacancy ~s:illed. c. Dwners are ~e~ured to st~brnit a: cepy of all published rental or resale advertisements :as d;ocumentat~on' of compliance with the Affirmative Ma.rke~n~ Plan. - 5. ,.,Description of ,' low an owners efforts will be assessed and what corrective actioni~ will be taken when an owner fails to follow affirmative marketing. a. Initial le~~;ng of a~ units will be monitored closely to assure that lower income families ~i~nitially v~cupy all units and that affirmative marketing was used. In those units ~~sed to tenants unassisted through Section 8 vouchers, the rental application ~fl`rms will be reviewed to determine the effectiveness of advertisements and outreach attempts. Annually, the tenants in each HOME rental rehabilitation unit will be recertified as an eligible low ar moderate income household. First time homebuyers assisted through the HOME program will be required to comply with all fair housing practices in the sale of their property. Homeowners will be monitored annually during their periods of affordability for compliance with all HOME program requirements. b, Each owner`s affirmative marketing attempts will be assessed annually. If a blatant disregard of the policies has been demonstrated, the Housing and FY 2011W~a12 Action Plan 41