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TDhe City of Albany received $555,000 in funding rom the Department of Trade and EconoYnic evelopment (DTED) to rehabilitate 25 single-family owner-occupied homes. The City of Annandale received $890,000 in funding from DTED to rehabilitate 20 owner-occupied units, 10 renter- occupied units, and 15 commercial units. Bi. County CAP was awarded $10,000 from the Open Your Heart Foundation and $81,266 from the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (MHFA) for the rehabilitation of transitional housing units in Cass Lake and Walker. The Central Minnesota Housing Partnership (CMHP) was awarded $200,000 in gap financing from MHFA for the 5-City Life Cycle Housing Project in St. Cloud, Sartell, Sauk Rapids, St. Joseph and Waite Park. Additional funding was also awarded from the Central Minnesota Community Foundation for $3,000 and Bremer Bank for $37,000 for this effort. CMHP received $50,000 from the Initiative Foundation to provide housin9 plannin9 and technical assistance to communities in the region. It also received $150,000 in funding from the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund (GMHF) for 24 affordable rental units in Zimmerman. CMHP completed the development of 11 homes in Monticello and is coordinating the gap financing for nine homes in Sauk Rapids. Three affordable single-family homes are for-sale in Long Prairie.. The Community Housing Development Corporation was awarded $200,000 towards the Veterans' & Community Housin9 Initiative in St. Cloud. The project will provide 60 units of permanent supportive housing. The City of Little Falls and Little Falls HRA received $50,000 in Community Revitalization Funds for the removal of four blighted single-family homes and the rehabilitation or construction of four replacements homes. The Mille Lacs Reservation Housing Authority received $341,000 to provide subsidized rehabilitation loans to members of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwa living on the reservation and within a thirty mile radius of the reservation. At Ottertail Wadena Community Action Council, Larry Barber received his Building Official Limited license and Sandy Metzdorff is now certified as an Accessibility Specialist. They will be contracting with local rural communities to help them adopt and regulate Minnesota building codes and deal with accessibility issues in public buildings. OTWCAC has received Minnesota Housing Partnership Central Report provided by Central Regional Network Coordinator Lisa Graphenteer) Central Minnesota Housing Partnership 320.259.0393 lisa@cmhp.net licensure as a Residential Mortgage Originator through the state and will originate loans in order to better serve its clientstl~lI Tri. Cap has started its spring/summer single-family detached"""' construction with four homes in Sauk'Centre, four homes in Albany, and one home in Paynesville. Tri-Cap~ current MURL proJect will produce five affordable homes in the communities of Melrose and Sauk Centre. These homes will be available in the early fall. Tri-Cap has alsojoined the Central Minnesota Builders Association, the Builders Association of Minnesota, and the National Association of Homebuilders. Volunteers of America received $350,000 from MHFA and GMHF for Our Home permanent supportive housing for homeless persons with disabilities. The St. Cloud H,qA received $580,000 from MHFA and $500,000 from GMHF for construction and gap financing of Meadows Edge Townhomes. Infrastructure construction on this 72 unit for-sale townhome development will begin in Summer 2003, with construction of the units starting in Spring 2004. The HRA also received $360,000 in construction financing and $240,000 in gap financing from GMHF for a redevelopment proJect at the Anderson Trucking site ir downtown St. Cloud. The building will be demolished an~ replaced with 24 for-sale single-family homes with construction starting Summer 2004. 10