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HED-6 HOUSING POLICY AND PRODUCTION SURVEY HED-7 STATE ROLE IN HOUSING •Metropolitan Council planning and policies must be more closely aligned to help ensure that resources for transportation and transit are available to assist communities in addressing their local share of the regional affordable housing need and to ensure that all populations have adequate mobility to reach jobs, education and other destinations regardless of where they live; •The Metropolitan Council will not hold cities responsible if a city does not meet its affordable housing need number. However, efforts to produce affordable housing may be considered when awarding grants; •The Metropolitan Council, with input by local government representatives, should examine the allocation of need methodology with respect to the relationship between the regional allocation and the local share of the need. The formula should also be routinely evaluated to determine if market conditions have changed or if underlying conditions should prompt readjustment of the formula; •The Council should use a methodology that incorporates data accumulated by individual cities and not limited to census driven or policy driven growth projections; •The formula should be adjusted to better reflect the balance and breadth of existing subsidized and naturally occurring affordable housing stocks; and •The Council should work with local governments through an appeals process to resolve any local issues and concerns with respect to the need allocations and the plan review process. The Metropolitan Council annually calculates a city’s housing production. Production information is collected through an annual city survey as well as Council data. Cities participating in Livable Communities programs are required to include their housing action plan and ALHOA funding amounts in their survey responses. Beginning in 2022, the Council began compiling the data in a report to share city practices and funding sources that support the creation of new affordable housing units. Metro Cities supports a regular review of the survey questions and use of data, with city input. Any proposed new, deleted, or expanded uses or programs in which data from the Housing Policy and Production Survey would be used should be reviewed by local officials and Metro Cities. Metro Cities supports a consistent schedule for sending the annual housing production survey to cities. The state must be an active participant in providing funding for housing, including direct funding, financial incentives, and initiatives to assist local governments and developers to support affordable housing and housing appropriate for people at all stages of life. 44