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Home My WebLink AboutHousing & Redevelopment Authority Packet 07-26-1976e AGENDA PLYMOUTH HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY July 26, 1976 I. Rdl I Cali. II. Minutes of June 28, 1976 Regular Meeting III. New Business A.. ---Dissipation in the Metro HRA of Hous:i-ng Rehabilitation Program tY. Aidfournment. CITY OF PLYMOUTH 3025 HARBOR LANE. PLYMOUTH, VINNESOTA 55441 TELEPHONE (612) 559.2800 PATE: July 23, 1976 MEMO TO: Plymouth Housing and Redevelopment Authority FROM: Charles E. Dillerud, Planning Director SUBJECT.- Housing Rehabilitation Commissioners will recall that at our last meeting, Staff had noted that the 'Retro- politan Council was working on local "quotas" for housing rehabilitation progress. These quotas would be separate from earlier adopted subsidized housing quotas and, when completed, they would have to be addressed, as to production, in the same manner as the earlier subsidized housing quotas. Since our last meeting, the Metropolitan Council has completed its work on the .rehab allocation. Plymouth has been allocated a goal of $117,500 in loans and $11,286 in grants for rehabilitated housing units for the period 1976-1978. The goal was established by calculating need, as expressed in 1970 numbers of dwelling units over a certain age and applying "available loans and grants". The Council staff believes that some 25,000,000 in loan authority and $2,970,000 fn direct grants will be available for the seven county metro area frpn the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency over -the 1976-1978 period., The progress a community is making toward the provision of low/ moderate income housing will be partly a function of how much of the $117,500 and 11,286 figures we have actually implemented through MHFA grants and loans for Plymouth housing rehab .projects. As we also earlier discussed, housing rehabilitation can be a complicated program to administer. Staff would be hesitant to suggest we immeidately start a locally administered program until we have a year of Section 8 administration experience behind us. On the other hand, rehab programs are generally well received in the community, primarily since you are aiding low/moderate income homeowners already residing in the community. Progress toward the rehab goals involves complex paper shuffling but few public rela- tions problems. The Metro HRA has offered to administer rehab programs for Local communities and file a joint application to MHFA for rehab grant funds and loan commitments. We received the invitation to join very late in June (after the last HRA meeting) with a July 15 due date for 1976 year response. The due date has since been extended to the first week of August and the option still remains. open for Plymouth to join. Staff believes that joining the Metro HRA rehab program for 1976 may be of value toward our local efforts in housing.. Since each participation contract with Metro HRA will be individually negotiated we can use the first year to "ease into" the program. In 1977, we would be prepared to operate the program locally. C • CITY OF PLYMOUTH 3025 HARBOR LANE, PLYMOUTH, MINNESOTA 55441 TELEPHONE {612) 559.2800 i DAl'E: July 23, 1976. 111EM.0 T0; James. G. Willis, City Manager FROM, Charles E. Di'll-erud.. Planning Director SUBJECT: Netro HRA --Housing Rehabilitatior, Should the Plymouth HRA recommend applying for inclusion in the Metro HRA Joint application for 1976 housing rehabilitation funds, adoption of the attached resolution is recommmnded. July 152 1976 Kr. John Bo;'Ewid, Chairman Metropolitan Cnuncil 300 Metra Square Building Seventh and Robert Streets St. Paul, MN 55101 Dear John: As we have discussed, the City or Plymot;.th is positively approaching the production of Subsidized housing units. One firia sten torard this production has been the recent action of Lhe Piymc4th Housine. and Redevelopment Authority to actively :eek the approval of the Department of Housing and Urban D6velopnent for a grant: to the Plymouth XHA to place end administe. fi'ty units of Section 8 subsidised housing within existing stru-,,tures in Plymouth. Thi:, application wa3 filed witit HUD on June 1$3 1976 and we hope to hear from HUD shortly as to their first reaction to our application. We believe our Section 8 proposal for fifty units of existing sub- sidized itousi_ng is responsive 'to the co:rbined 1975 and 1.976 produc- tion goals contained within the Housing Assistance Plan submitter. to HUD earlier, the capabilities of our local staff and with the availability of eligible existing apartment units. ?rior to our submission of the Section 8 application, our staff did a complete reanalysls of our existing rental housing market and found that some 300 unit L, representing 15 percent of our existing rental housing resources, are available at rentals at or below the maxinun:s allowed for Section 8 subs?dy eligibility. Although we realize it will require hard work on our part to match family and elderly eligible Section 8 recipients to some 17 percent of our Section 8 eligible housing units, we are committed to meeting this goal. You have been most helpful in suggesting approaches that the City of Plymouth might take toward the production of low and moderate Income or subsidized housing. The advice you, m uibers of the Council and Council staff have offered have been carefully discussed by members of our HRA and we have directed our staff to begin work on a number of these approaches within Plymouth. In fact, I just! referred a very helpful letter from Bob Hoffman to our staff for their guidance and assistance. To aid us in taking our first major step into local subsidized housing production, I must again ask for your assistance. M r . John Roland July 15, 1976 Paee 2 Perhaps even as yru are reacting this let.:ter,,your starr. ,loan Cairpbelly t full Council ray be revie�.r' rtE,� the Human Resourecs Cor,.rittee arid the 8 applications received by HUD and refe:i•red to he scvera� Spect.ion Council for co2cMent . I sincerely hope thilt in the process of this <<'!'ir¢iative roviet: they can filed good cause to provide IjUp Plymouth's Section 8 with an auplicrti.oL't,*e lso, recor.ir ndation conccrnine, seek the reaction o_ L -}r: it�n should HtIU, in soi:te other nanne.r, 6 ,a.ls, I trust I cawn rely ori your support for Council, on S�:ctiort propo Plymouths proposal. Sincerely,. Al Hilde, Jr. Mayor .AH: le cc: Robert Short., Metropolitan Council Robert Hofftan, Mletropoli,ta" Council Joan Campbell, Human resources Com::titceu Chairman Trudy McFall, Ketropolitan Couric..l Housing Director qhs, t r" Mayor Al Hilde, Jr. City of Plymouth 30 25 Harbor Lane Plymouth,, Minnesota. 55441 Dear Al: 4 July 22, 1975 R olft'l Cason 300 Nutro mare &*ong: Seventh Street and fa0W Street Saint Pout, Mi<newto 55101 %4 tete ne (612). 227=9421 R Office- oftheChairman I. am pleased to hear that Plymouth is moving ahead with a Section 8 application and that.we have been able to provide you with assistance. The Council is very concerned with assisting local communities to implement their housing assistance plans and wants to support the efforts of communities to do so.. Under federal regulation, the Council does not review Section 8 Existing Program. applications:. The A-95 review proceedings provide for area -wide reviews only when new construction or substantial rehabilitation is involved. We will not, therefore, be reviewing the 50 -unit application. In the future, if new construction Section 8 projects are proposed in Plymouth, we will be reviewing them. JB/kmr