DATE: November 27, 2018
TO: Members of the Housing & Redevelopment Authority
FROM: Janine Atchison, Housing Coordinator
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Community Development Block Grant Allotment Fiscal Year 2019-2020
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SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED:
The Housing & Redevelopment Authority (HRA) to consider allocation of 2019 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding.
BACKGROUND:
Each year the Housing & Redevelopment Authority (HRA) receives approximately $61,000 in CDBG funds through the Dakota County Community Action Agency (CDA). The HRA must make application for the funds in early January. The application must outline how the funds are to be used.
Current Northfield CDBG programs are:
? Down Payment Assistance
? Residential Rehabilitation
? Rental Rehabilitation (downtown)
? Northern Oaks Rehabilitation
Considerations for CDBG Projects
Staff is currently working with Growing Up Healthy, Three Rivers Community Action and others to create a viable program to ensure decent, safe & healthy housing for the residents of Northfield's two manufactured home communities. The program is scheduled to be kicked off in late spring 2019. Some of the benefits of the program could include smoke & C/O detectors, inspections for energy efficiency, health & safety education. It may be advantageous for the HRA to allocate CDBG funding to provide opportunities for manufactured homeowners to rehab existing homes, purchase replacement homes and/or remove and demolish existing substandard manufacture homes. In previous years, the HRA utilized CDBG funds for manufactured home rehabilitation, replacement, clearance and demolition programs.
Suggestions for 2019 CDBG Funds:
* Manufactured Home Rehabilitation Grant Program $25,000
o The HRA could provide a grant of up to $5,000 to income qualified manufactured home owners for repairs and updates of their manufactured home.
* Manufactured Home Down Payment Assistance Grant Program $16,000
o The HRA could provide a grant of up to ...
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