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• Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Page 3 September 5, 1997 Housing Rehabilitation Community Development Block Grant/HOME Grants: Each year the Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD)provides Ramsey County with an allotment of CDBG and HOME funds. These funds are available to cities within Ramsey County on a competitive basis. When the applications are released, staff sends out letters to all multiple family property owners to encourage them to apply for the funds. We are currently working with Greenfield Estates to assist them with their application which will be due in January, 1998. A portion of the allocated funds Ramsey County receives are placed into two revolving loan funds: (1) a single-family rehabilitation programs; and(2) a multiple-family (for properties with 2 to 8 units) rehabilitation program. Each year staff markets these programs through newsletter articles and letters to multiple family property owners. First Tier Suburbs Planbook: A collaborative effort between several first-tier suburban cities is being made to create a Planbook. The purpose of the Planbook is to provide ideas, inspirations,tools and encouragement to homeowners and to promote the advantages of living within the inner-ring suburbs and inspire homeowners to remodel their homes. The Planbook will address specific housing styles such as the cape cod, rambler and post-war homes and provide ideas on how each style of home can be upgraded to meet the needs of today. First Tier Housing Rehabilitation Program: On behalf of the first tier suburbs, the City of Fridley submitted to Minnesota Housing Finance Agency a proposal to create a specific housing rehabilitation program which would address the needs of the first tier suburban communities. This program is in the initial stages, and it is hoped legislation will be passed to support it. •