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Housing & Economic Development Metro Cities supports strategies such as sub-regional cooperation and the sharing of best practices among local governments and other entities and partners to address housing issues. The policy plan should allow for the provision of ongoing research and analysis by the Metropolitan Council to provide communities with timely and updated information on regional and local housing needs and market trends as regional and local needs change and evolve. Metro Cities supports Council solicitation and use of local data, inputs and analyses in this work and local government review of data and analyses. Metro Cities supports continued city representation and participation in further developments or updates to the housing policy plan. 3-E Allocation of Affordable Housing Need The allocation of need for affordable housing methodology determines how many affordable housing units are needed in the region, and distributes the need by assigning each city its fair share, with an affordable housing need number. State law requires cities to guide sufficient land to accommodate local shares of the region's affordable housing need. Metro Cities supports the creation of a variety of housing opportunities. However, the provision of affordable and lifecycle housing is a shared responsibility between the private sector and government at all levels, including the federal government, state government and Metropolitan Council. Land economics, construction costs and infrastructure needs create barriers to the creation of affordable housing that cities cannot overcome without assistance. Therefore, Metro Cities supports a Metropolitan Council affordable housing policy and allocation of need methodology that recognizes the following tenets: • The Council's housing policies characterize individual city and sub-regional housing numbers as a range of needs in the community; • Cities need significant financial assistance from the federal and state government, as well as the Metropolitan Council, in order to make progress toward creating additional affordable housing and preserving existing affordable housing; • Metropolitan Council planning and policies must be more closely aligned to help ensure that resources for transportation and transit are available to assist communities in addressing their local share of the regional affordable housing need and to ensure that all populations have adequate mobility to reach jobs, education and other destinations regardless of where they live; 2017 Legislative Policies 23