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Comprehensive Guide Plan - Housing Element <br />City of Mounds View <br />A housing maintenance code, used in conjunction with rehabilitation grant and loan programs to <br />address housing maintenance, was identified as a tool to identify deterioration and blight of the <br />city's housing stock. This involved the scheduling of routine inspections of the city's housing to <br />identify housing in need of rehabilitation. <br />Innovative Housing <br />The Comprehensive Guide Plan identified standards for innovative housing types such as solar <br />and earth sheltered housing. These guidelines assisted the city in developing development <br />standards which did not restrict innovative housing styles. <br />Housing Assistance <br />The Comprehensive Guide Plan identified the need for housing to accommodate low and <br />moderate income families. In 1979, 55 families were assisted by Section 8 rental vouchers or <br />certificates. The Metropolitan Council established goals or allocations of the number of units <br />and funding a community could expect to received for the provision of low and moderate income <br />housing. The Metropolitan Council identified 211 housing units be provided over 10 years as <br />Mounds View's goal. The Comprehensive Guide Plan promotes a diverse housing stock and <br />identified the three large mobile home parks and Section 8 subsidy programs as providing low <br />and moderate income housing. In addition, several State and Federal financing programs were <br />identified as resources to assist with the community's housing needs. <br />II. City of Mounds View <br />Focus 2000 Project Housing Goals - 1995 <br />A comprehensive Housing Stock Analysis was conducted by the City and reviewed by the <br />Neighborhoods committee of the Focus 2000 Project in 1995. The report provided current <br />information relating to demographics, housing characteristics and housing programs and funding <br />sources. The conclusions of the committee's findings are as follows: <br />1. Encourage and assist multi - family property owners to apply for housing <br />rehabilitation assistance. <br />2. Continue to explore funding possibilities, both loan and grants, that the City could <br />use for single- family or multi - family housing rehabilitation projects. <br />3. Establish revolving loan fund for citizens of Mounds View to use for single - <br />family housing rehabilitation. <br />4. Promotion of first -time home buyers and closing cost/down payment assistance <br />programs. <br />Page 2 <br />