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MINNESOTA HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY June 28,_1984 WITMQ JUL 2 1984 CITY OF LITTLE CANADA Dear Municipal Official: Several weeks ago, the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (MHFA) sent information to your community regarding the new federal Rental Rehabilitation Program. Based on generally positive responses to that letter, the Governor has notified the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that the MHFA will administer the Rental Rehabilitation Program. MHFA is in the process of developing a program description which must be submitted to HUD by early August. Included in this program description will be an identification of the participating local munici- For this reason the MHFA must have, by July 20th, a firm commitment from those communities that intend to work with the state in implementing the Program. The following information identifies the specific responsibilities which the local community must agree to accept. The outline indicates that the municipality will carry out some functions and the local Public Housing Authority (PHA) will carry out other functions. However, in some communities it may be most practical for one entity to carry out all program responsibilities. Communities and PHAs should discuss this and identify their appropriate roles; however, the Program cannot operate in any community where the PHA is unwilling to administer the Section 8 certificates and vouchers. Public Housing Authorities and municipalities wishing to be identified as participating in the Program must complete and return the enclosed Participation Commitment Form to MHFA. Community and /or PHA. Responsibilities: 1) Initially, communities will be responsible, in conjunction with MHFA, for promoting the Program to building owners. This may be an opportunity for communities to solicit proposals from building owners whose buildings are occupied by low income tenants, yet the buildings do not meet Housing Quality Standards. 2) MHFA will provide an application packet to interested property owners which will include a list of the participating communities and a contact person within that community. The building owner will be asked to provide to MHFA a certification (the form for which will be included in the packet) completed by the community indicating that the building is in an "eligible neighborhood ". The community will be certifying that: a) The building is in a neighborhood where the median income of the neighborhood does not exceed 80% of the median income for the area.* The "neighborhood" boundaries will be identified by community staff. A site location map, identifying the building and the surrounding eligible neighborhood., must,accompany the certification. A neighborhood must, at minimum, contain one square block. The median income of the area is the 333 Sibley Street, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 (612) 2967608 p f.. Fnu^>1 flnnnrt tt,itv l fnT,nri,. .,l tv