An official website of the POLICY 5: Connected housing and neighborhoods
This policy states:
Enhance residents’ ability to keep their housing, amenities, health, social networks, and sense of belonging within their neighborhoods.
ACTIONS
Provide
Actions that describe how the Met Council will direct actions and support regional housing goals through programs, assistance, and funding, including grant priorities and criteria, voucher programs, and technical assistance.
Plan
Actions that describe how the Met Council adopts plans under the regional development guide through its housing authority to review municipal comprehensive plan updates and plan for other integral processes that will encompass the physical, social, or economic needs of the region.
Partner
Actions that describe how the Met Council will collaborate with residents, local governments, organizations, and regional experts to improve housing choice and accessibility and reduce housing inequities. These actions also describe how the Met Council will seek national and state opportunities to engage on housing issues that further the vision and values of the region.
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Lead the development of a tool to evaluate displacement risk factors and explore the implementation of this tool in Met Council grant programs.
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When allocating Met Council funds, prioritize place-based investments that implement displacement mitigation strategies in displacement risk areas, as identified by the Met Council.
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Livable Communities Act prioritizes community connection in scoring criteria.
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Prioritize projects that preserve and/or add to the cultural landscape of the neighborhood the project is located in.
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Prioritize culturally responsive approaches, such as interest-free and Individual Taxpayer Identification mortgage products, larger units for multigenerational housing, and community-designed housing projects.
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Provide guidance and best practices, within Met Council and with external partners, on anti-displacement mitigation strategies for investment projects in collaboration with the Blue Line Anti-Displacement Working Group, other similar groups, and other anti-displacement work across Met Council divisions.
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Provide technical assistance to support development of community-level programs working to promote equitable access to stable housing such as downpayment assistance, affordable housing trust funds, and rent stabilization.
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Provide technical assistance and tools to be considered to support ways that the community can make efforts to enhance the social and economic capital of residents in newly constructed affordable and mixed-income housing, such as mental health services, job training programs, and educational support.
- Include the requirement of a community-based displacement risk assessment, developed by Met Council staff in collaboration with all Met Council divisions and community partners, for Met Council-owned investments.
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Continue collaboration with the Blue Line Anti-Displacement Work Group, as well as with anti-displacement efforts of external community partners to ensure alignment in best practices across all Met Council’s planning and operations.
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Engage with housing stakeholders such as neighborhood groups, nonprofits, and research organizations to align Met Council displacement risk assessment with other equity scorecards and anti-displacement tracking efforts around the region.
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Collaborate with partners to seek opportunities within transit-oriented-development areas to support the development of affordable housing.
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Convene regional and local housing stakeholders including practitioners, funders, and advocates, to promote greater communication, and to refine policies and processes to respond to the housing needs of historically overburdened households throughout the region.
