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MN SF2410

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/8/2016

Primary Sponsor

David Tomassoni

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Origin

Senate

89th Legislature 2015-2016

AI Summary

  • Authorizes the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency to issue an additional $110,000,000 in housing infrastructure bonds for supportive housing, affordable rental housing, community land trusts, and federally assisted rental housing.

  • Adds senior housing (for persons 55+ with income at or below 50% of area median income) as an allowable use of housing infrastructure bonds, with priority given to projects demonstrating affordability commitments, leveraged funding, and aging-in-place services.

  • Defines "senior housing" as housing with at least 80% of units occupied by at least one senior per unit, which may be mixed-income developments and include efficiency, one, and two-bedroom units.

  • Appropriates $20,000,000 in bond proceeds for rehabilitation costs to preserve public housing owned and operated by public housing authorities and agencies, limited to authorities with a public housing assessment composite score of 80 or above.

  • Authorizes the sale and issuance of state bonds up to $20,000,000 to fund the public housing preservation appropriation.

Legislative Description

Public housing preservation and additional housing infrastructure bonds issuance and senior housing addition bond issue and appropriation

Last Action

Author added Hayden

4/27/2016

Committee Referrals

Capital Investment3/8/2016

Full Bill Text

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