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Council role • Develop and provide tools, including competitive rent limits in higher -cost communities, to enable Housing Choice Voucher holders to choose the location that best meets their needs. • Encourage ongoing coordination among metro agencies administering voucher programs to promote greater Section 8 mobility for voucher holders. • Develop and provide mobility counseling for participants of the Metro HRA's Housing Choice Voucher Program to help ensure access to opportunity -rich communities and neighborhoods. • Make project -based Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers available through the Super RFP process to support project feasibility and provide stability in long-term operation for select projects in opportunity -rich locations. Local opportunities • Market the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program to local landlords and provide program information when issuing rental licenses and/or conducting property inspections. • For local governments that distribute tenant -based rental assistance —including Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers —implement approaches that create mobility options for recipients. These include offering competitive rent limits in higher -cost neighborhoods and providing mobility counseling. so Metropolitan Council, 2010 Travel Behavior Inventory. 31 Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.G. §3601. 32 https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/AFFH-Final-Rule.pdf, p. 305. 33 http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2015/HUDNo_15-084 sa For a full definition of entitlement communities, see the Glossary in the Appendices. Entitlement communities in our region are Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, and Washington counties and the cities of Bloomington, Coon Rapids, Eden Prairie, Minneapolis, Minnetonka, Plymouth, St. Paul, and Woodbury. "TW0. t VICOmes.