SF969 Summary

• Appropriates $57,798,000 for fiscal years 2022-2023 to the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency for various programs including challenge grants, workforce housing, manufactured home park infrastructure, family homeless prevention, and affordable rental investment.

• Creates new law allowing manufactured homes affixed to real property owned by nonprofits, cooperatives, or individual owners to be converted from personal property to real property through affidavit of affixation and certificate cancellation.

• Modifies housing policy by encouraging municipalities to permit duplexes through fourplexes and mixed-use development in comprehensive plans, and prohibits municipalities from conditioning building permits on aesthetic requirements beyond State Building Code standards.

• Increases maximum rehabilitation loan amounts from $27,000 to $40,000 for owner-occupied housing and modifies income limits for low and moderate income persons from 80% to 115% of median income for certain housing programs.

• Phases out eviction moratorium by voids Executive Order 20-79, prohibits new moratorium orders for 30 days, and allows evictions for non-payment of rent after 60 days for tenants ineligible for COVID-19 rental assistance, with protections for pending assistance applications through June 1, 2022.