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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 /> lnforma '. . - • - ;- ;t•-; : -; , I. .k I • .f c eri •cs an. ouslnprograms <br /> sources. The conclusions of the committee's findings are as follows: g and funding <br /> 1. Encourage and assist multi-family property owners to apply for housing <br /> rehabilitation assistance. <br /> 2. Continueto 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 /> • <br /> Page 2 <br />