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<br /> - ------- ---------- <br />ROLE OF CITIES/COMMUNITIES . <br />* Cities and other regulatory agencies should be encouraged to minimize development costs <br /> in order to create qualified low income projects. <br />* Housing policies should encourage the ties that enhance households' ability to solve their <br /> own problems and build civic infrastructure for a regional community. <br />* Cities should encourage the creation of scattered-site, low income and affordable housing. <br /> Cities should not repeat past errors by building traditional large-scale low and moderate <br /> income housing projects which have a tendency to perpetuate the economic segregation of <br /> the poor. <br />* Work with communities in their sub-region, with Metropolitan Council assistance, in <br /> developing a sub-regional affordable housing strategy to provide practical economic <br /> opportunities on a sub-regional basis, taking into account land use and "real estate <br /> economics. .. <br />* When utilizing economic development tools such as Tax Increment Financing or Industrial <br /> Revenue Bonds to create employment opportunities, an affordable housing strategy <br /> element should also be implemented with state and regional assistance. <br />* Consider jointly entering into agreements with county housing authorities to assist in . <br /> developing and implementing strategies and acting as the sub-regional levy authority to <br /> provide sub-regional wide resources to be combined with state and other resources, in <br /> providing sub-regional, affordable housing opportunities. <br /> [Ii] Urban Strategies Task Force Report 16 . <br />