HomeMy WebLinkAboutHousing & Redevelopment Authority Resolution 81-01CITY OF PLYMOUTH
HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a speciil meeting of the Housing and
Redevelopment Authority of Plymouth, Minnesota was held on the 23d day of
februaCy , 1981. The following members were present:
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ng members were absent: Non!,
Lpmmissigner Neils_ introduced the following Resolution and moved its
adoption:
NRA Resolutem No. 81-01
AMENDING PLYMOUTH'S SECTION 8 REWT ASSISTANCE. PROGRAM REGULATIONS
FOR ADMISSIONS AND ACCUPANCY POLICIES
WHEREAS, there is a real need to provide immediate loAg-range housing for those
women and their children who live -in a ife—threatening %ittlation as a reult of
physical violence done to them by their mates; and
WHEREAS, there is a Section 8 Rent,Assistance Program in Plymouth that could pro-
vide rent subsidy help to make it financially possible for those abused women to
move to separate, more secure quarters; and
WHEREAS, the present Section 8 waiting list in Plymouth would require those abused
women to wait several months before they would be given rent subsidy assistance;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE PLYMOUTH HRA that the City's Section 8
Regulations for Admission and Occupancy Policies (Section II, D. Preference in
the Selection of Persons to Receive a Certificate) be amended to include the
following:
4. Those battered women and their children who are referred by a
battered women's shelter and who live in Plymouth,
IMThe motion for the adoption of the foregoing Resolution was duly seconded by
ommissioner , and eipon vote being taken thereon, the
0 ow ng vote n favor thereof:Commissioners Bakke, Erickson, Hoyt end
The following voted aganst oaxx9 edc Chairman Hiiis
Whereupon the Resolution was declared duly passed and a c