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City Council Regular Meeting — 08/23/04 DRAFT Minutes - Page 21 ➢ Decreasing enrollment in both local school districts — loss of young family housing ➢ College student housing and parking issues ➢ Single-family detached non-homestead situations ➢ Public infrastructure maintenance Discussion included research performed by the school district and negative impacts to students based on the more transitions required of those students when not prepared for (i.e., military families saw less impact); frustrations of teachers when in a given school year they may have 30 — 35 in transition and dealing with the instability of families and academic achievement; low-income, first generation Americans and communication and income issues; nutrition concerns; adult-support or supervision impacts for high-risk students; required additional outreach programming for multi-family units with high turnover; recent Ramsey County study completed, with over 1,000 children in Ramsey County daily who are considered "out- of-home placements" and risk factors identified (i.e., in 70% of the cases, a major factor was a change in housing in the last year); family troubles exacerbated by housing issues; public safety issues (calls for service per capita higher in multi-family units); creation of the City's crime- free multi-housing program to assist landlords in various issues; increased rental of single-family, marginal homes; and over-extension of families in purchasing homes (i.e., no food or furniture). TOOLS AND COSTS/REVENUES � Rental Licensing � Housing Maintenance Code ➢ Sale of City Property � Incentives � Public Information Carolyn Olson, of the Greater Minnesota Housing Corporation, spoke about some of the resources available and being implemented by her organization (i.e., purchase of homes at market rate, and sold for less than their value with the GMHC rehabilitating the homes to bring them up to code, and offering second mortgages with various options). TOOLS AND COSTS/ REVEN UES