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Recommendations for Usin!! This Study with the Comprehensive Plan The housing element of the Comprehensive Plan will include the following components: 1. An inventory of the community's housing stock and related demographic information. 2. An analysis of the community's current and future housing needs, including affordability, type, condition, relationship to employment, ages of the population, and comparisons to housing in neighboring communities and the region. 3. Housing goals, to correspond to the goals adopted for the Livable Communities Act. 4. Housing policies, which will cover such subjects as housing costs and types, housing for all stages in the life cycle, housing density and use of resources, housing to meet the special needs of various population groups, home maintenance and neighborhoods, and access to employment and transit. 5. An Action Plan, or implementation program, with the steps needed to achieve the city's housing goals and policies. Much of the information included in this Life Cycle Housing Study can be used to meet these requirements, as follows: 1. The data in this study on the - housing supply and population groups can be used as part of this section. 2. The recommendations in Tables Nine and Ten of this study, as well as the supporting information leading up to them, go a long way toward meeting the requirements of this section. Perhaps additional information can be added related to employment, which was not covered extensively in this study. Additional information on housing in neighboring communities will be provided under separate cover. 3. The recommended changes in Table Ten of the study translate into, first, revised Livable Communities goals, and then numerical housing goals for the comprehensive plan. It is, of course, up to the city to decide if it wants to meet the needs identified in the Life Cycle Study, or if it would prefer to move in other directions. 4. The city will adopt housing policies covering a number of important areas, including everything fTom equal housing opportunity to relationships between housing, transportation and employment. The recommendations in this study can lead to policies related to the need for maintenance and upgrading of the housing supply, and having a housing supply to meet the needs of all age groups and income levels. 5. The Action Plan can build on the recommendations in Table Ten, and can identify the types of programs and sources of funding that will be used to accomplish the city's housing goals. For example, the city may wish to initiate an enhanced housing maintenance and rehabilitation program, or create a demonstration neighborhood housing association program, or contribute local funds to a rent assistance program. Because the comprehensive plan update is required so late in the decade, the city may wish to update its numerical housing goals and policies as needed after the 2000 Census, probably in 2002 or 2003, when the newer data is available. 24