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~ Me~~~~~=i~~:':~~ October 5, 2005 TO: Local Officials FROM: Guy peterso~irector, Housing and Livable Communities llECEIVED U~l 0 6 200~ The 2005 housing performance score for your community is enclosed. It is being sent to both the community's administrative officer and the person that completed the survey. The scores were determined based on several factors set forth in the Council's Guidelinesfor Priority Fundingfor Housing Performance. Seventy percent of the score came from the survey you completed about housing activity in your community during the past two years. It included information about: · local fiscal, regulatory, and housing rehabilitation initiatives to facilitate workforce housing development and preservation · the density of residential development · the approval of affordable or life-cycle housing that has not yet been developed The other 30 percent of the score was determined from the following data about your community's housing: · the affordability of owned housing units (a combination oflocal government information about the number of mobile homes, and homestead tax valuation data from the Minnesota Department of Revenue) · the diversification of housing (based on local housing permit data Council research staff gathers annually from local governments) · the number of affordable rental units (from data provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency and local and county HRAs) · the availability of housing in your community for persons with special needs (based on information provided by the Minnesota Departments of Education, Corrections and Human Services) The performance scores are intended to reflect both the amount of affordable and life-cycle housing in the community and the community's efforts to facilitate affordable and life-cycle housing development and preservation. Scores range widely, reflecting the variety of metropolitan area communities. The sparse population and scattered housing locations of rural, unsewered communities tend to result in lower scores, while the affordability and diversification of existing housing stock in urban, sewered communities, combined with efforts to add and/or preserve such housing, yield higher scores. As indicated in the Council's grant request solicitation materials, the housing performance scores will be one of the factors considered in the evaluation and ranking of applications for Council competitive funding programs this fall as follows: · For the Tax Base Revitalization and Livable Communities Demonstration Accounts, the scores represent nine percent of the total possible evaluation. · For the Local Housing Incentives Account, when the housing score factor is considered, applications for funding from communities with lower housing performance scores are generally given priority over proposals from communities with higher scores in order to encourage and support local efforts by these communities to facilitate affordable housing. If you have any questions or want to discuss your community's score, please call me at 651-602-1418. Thank you. Enclosure ! ;~~>:l www.metrocouncil.org Metro Info Line 602-1888 230 East Fifth Street . St. Paul. Minnesota 55101-1626 . (651) 602-1000 . Fax 602-1550 . TTY 291-0904 An Equal Opportunity Employer