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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />DATE: 5l 14/0 1 <br />ITEM NO: F-1 <br />p rk t Approval: Manager A proved: Agenda Section: <br />rt <br />Item escription: Consideration of Support for the Metropolitan Council's <br />Family Affordable Housing Program (PF33 13) <br />1.0 Requested Action: <br />1.1 Approval of a Cooperation Agreement with the Metropolitan Council which would <br />support the implementation of a Family Affordable Rental Housing Program on scattered <br />sites in Roseville. <br />2.0 Background and Program Goals: <br />2.1 The goal of the Met Council's Family Affordable Housing Program (FAHP) is to help <br />meet the needs of work-force and life-cycle housing in the region by providing quality, <br />stable and secure rental homes on scattered sites for eligible families in suburban Anoka, <br />Ramsey and Hennepin Counties. <br />2.2 Metropolitan Council is committed to purchasing 150 units on an open market basis in <br />these Counties and is asking the support of communities like Roseville to accept a <br />reasonable amount of those units that can help to meet the region's work-force and life- <br />cycle housing needs. <br />2.3 Other Cities committed to the program to date include Golden Valley, Blaine, Maple <br />Grove, Edina, Minnetonka and Coon Rapids. <br />2.4 The main provisions of the program are as follows: <br />♦ Metro Council will purchase and improve existing homestead or vacant non-homestead <br />single family detached townhomes, duplexes, twin homes and condominiums on <br />scattered sites in Roseville. Every attempt will be made to ensure that the units will be <br />distributed evenly throughout the community and no large concentrations of units will be <br />in one location. <br />♦ The units will be owned and operated by Metro Council. The Metro Council will retain a <br />private properiy management firm to manage all FAHI' properties. <br />♦ Metro Council will improve the homes prior to occupancy to HCJD guidelines for public <br />housing units. <br />♦ The units will be rented to families meeting affordable housing income guidelines with <br />the goal of providing 40 percent of the units at less than 30 percent of the median income <br />$22,400 for a family of four) and 60 percent of the units at less than 80 percent of inedian <br />Met Council Family Affordable Housing Program - Page 1 of 4 <br />