• Support of effective administration and coordination of planning functions.
• Support of long-range planning goals and programs.
• Support of governmental responsibility for emergency housing needs.
• Support of policies that provide for a variety of housing that meets the needs of a diverse population.
• Support of the use of an Affordable Housing Trust Fund in order to preserve and expand the supply of affordable housing in Minneapolis.

League of Women Voters Mpls

Housing Positions changes approved by consensus

Housing Committee, May 16, 2008

Positions

All references to the “MCDA” will be changed to “CPED”, the City’s Planning and Economic Development Dept.  All references to Development or Planning Districts will be dropped as they no longer exist.  Any reference to “the homeless” will be changed to “homeless people”.

The LWVMpls supports:

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5. Urban renewal and low-rent housing.

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5. Urban renewal and affordable housing.

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9. Limitations on the power of the city to utilize development districts.

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9. Limitations on the power of the city to utilize development.

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10. Granting the power of eminent domain to the city for acquiring land in development districts.

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Granting the power of eminent domain to the city for acquiring land.

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11. A requirement that low-income housing units be included in residential or commercial-residential development districts.

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A requirement that units affordable at 30-80% of MMI be included in residential or commercial-residential city-assisted development.

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13. Continued limited MCDA reliance on local property tax.

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Dropped position, no longer applicable.

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18.     Efforts by Minneapolis to raise its percentage of homeowners.

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18.  Efforts by Minneapolis to provide affordable apartments and home-ownership opportunities.

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26.    Shelters should not be available to anyone on request with “no strings attached”.

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Dropped position

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27.    “Strings” which should be demanded of those using shelters

1. Users should actively search for a permanent place to live
2. Users stay should be limited in duration.
3. Users should participate in treatment programs of chemical dependency, mental illness, etc. as appropriate to their situation.

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Dropped position

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31. The following solutions for housing the homeless:

a. the use of vacant units in public high-rises.

b. development of non-treatment residential facilities for the chemically dependent or the mentally ill.

c. development of publicly subsidized transitional housing programs.

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31. The following solutions for housing homeless people:

a. the use of vacant units in public high-rises.

b. development of non-treatment residential facilities for chemically dependent people or people living with mental illness.

c. development of publicly subsidized supportive housing programs.