Minnesota HF 1252: Housing finance agency policy provisions adopted; affordable housing, workforce housing, and disaster recovery program eligibility requirements expanded; agency debt limit increased; community land trust program individual and family household income limit increased; rehabilitation loan program requirements and use expanded; and technical and conforming changes made.

Status: Introduction and first reading, referred to Housing Finance and Policy (as of 2021-02-18)

State: Minnesota · Session: 2021-2022 · Bill: HF 1252

Subjects: Disasters, Housing and Housing Finance Agency

Sponsors: Hausman

Bill Text

1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to housing; housing finance agency; adopting housing finance agency
1.3policy provisions; expanding eligibility requirements for certain affordable housing,
1.4workforce housing, and disaster recovery programs; increasing the agency debt
1.5limit; increasing the individual and family household income limits under the
1.6community land trusts program; expanding requirements and uses for the
1.7rehabilitation loan program; making technical and conforming changes; amending
1.8Minnesota Statutes 2020, sections 12A.09, subdivision 3; 273.11, subdivision 12;
1.9462A.05, subdivisions 14, 14a; 462A.07, subdivision 2; 462A.204, subdivision 3;
1.10462A.22, subdivision 1; 462A.30, subdivision 9; 462A.37, subdivisions 1, 2;
1.11462A.38, subdivision 1; 462A.39, subdivisions 2, 5.
1.12BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.13ARTICLE 1
1.14AFFORDABLE HOUSING ELIGIBILITY
1.15Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 12A.09, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
1.16Subd. 3.Capacity building grants.Grants may be made under section 462A.21,
1.17subdivision 3b,:
1.18(1) to local units of government, including regional consortia, in the disaster area and;
1.19(2) to nonprofit organizations; and
1.20(3) to federally recognized American Indian tribes or subdivisions located in Minnesota,
1.21and tribal housing corporations
1.22working in the disaster area to assess housing and related needs, develop and implement
1.23community or regional plans to meet those needs, and provide capacity to implement recovery
1.24plans.
1Article 1 Section 1.
REVISOREB/KA21-0035401/25/21
State of Minnesota
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H. F. No. 1252
NINETY-SECOND SESSION
Authored by Hausman02/18/2021
The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Housing Finance and Policy

2.1EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2021.
2.2Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 462A.07, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
2.3Subd. 2.Technical assistance; residential housing.It may provide general technical
2.4services and support to assist in the planning, processing, design, construction or
2.5rehabilitation, and inspection of residential housing for occupancy by persons and families
2.6of low and moderate income and to increase the capacity of entities to meet the housing
2.7needs in the state.
2.8EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2021.
2.9Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 462A.204, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
2.10Subd. 3.Set aside.At least one grant must be awarded in an area located outside of the
2.11metropolitan area. A county, a group of contiguous counties jointly acting together, a tribe,
2.12a group of tribes, or a community-based nonprofit organization with a sponsoring resolution
2.13from each of the county boards of the counties located within its operating jurisdiction may
2.14apply for and receive grants for areas located outside the metropolitan area.
2.15EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2021.
2.16Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 462A.38, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
2.17Subdivision 1.Establishment.A workforce and affordable homeownership development
2.18program is established to award homeownership development grants to:
2.19(1) cities,;
2.20(2) counties;
2.21(3) tribal governments,;
2.22(4) nonprofit organizations,;
2.23(5) cooperatives created under chapter 308A or 308B,; and
2.24(6) community land trusts created for the purposes outlined in section 462A.31,
2.25subdivision 1,
2.26for development of workforce and affordable homeownership projects. The purpose of the
2.27program is to increase the supply of workforce and affordable, owner-occupied multifamily
2.28or single-family housing throughout Minnesota.
2.29EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective August 1, 2021.
2Article 1 Sec. 4.
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3.1Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 462A.39, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
3.2Subd. 2.Definitions.(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the
3.3meanings given.
3.4(b) "Eligible project area" means a home rule charter or statutory city located outside
3.5of the metropolitan area as defined in section 473.121, subdivision 2, with a population
3.6exceeding 500; a community that has a combined population of 1,500 residents located
3.7within 15 miles of a home rule charter or statutory city located outside the metropolitan
3.8area as defined in section 473.121, subdivision 2; federally recognized tribal reservations;
3.9or an area served by a joint county-city economic development authority.
3.10(c) "Joint county-city economic development authority" means an economic development
3.11authority formed under Laws 1988, chapter 516, section 1, as a joint partnership between
3.12a city and county and excludi

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