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Appendix 4: Definition of Terms • Affordable Housing is ownership or rental housing affordable to households earning 80% or less of Area Median Income (AMI). To be considered affordable, all LCA affordable housing grant applications including affordable housing must have a minimum 15-year affordability term, and a mechanism in place to ensure this term. • Community Engagement: A thoughtful and intentional way to build and maintain effective relationships over time. Community engagement involves active listening, learning or mutual exchange of ideas and information, identification of common interests and goals, and translation of those interests into collective efforts to achieve the goals. It can be described as "doing with" instead of "doing for" or "doing to". • Developed Communities (Urban Center and Urban Community Designations in Thrive) are cities where more than 85% of land is developed, infrastructure is well established, and efforts must go toward keeping it in good repair. Projects awarded grants in developed communities will be focused on maintaining and improving infrastructure, buildings and land to support adaptive reuse, infill development and redevelopment. • Developing Communities (Suburban, Suburban Edge and Emerging Suburban Edge Community Designations in Thrive) are cities where the most substantial amount of new growth — about 60 percent of new households and 40 percent of new jobs — will occur. Projects awarded grants in developing communities will be focused on accommodating growth by supporting local efforts and policies to plan for growth that efficiently uses transportation and transit infrastructure and regional services, promotes land use patterns with clear distinctions between urban and rural areas, and by supporting activity centers along corridors that encourage the development of communities where shopping, jobs and a variety of housing choices co -exist by design. • Communities designated Rural Center in Thrive are local commercial, employment, and residential activity centers serving rural areas. Projects awarded grants in rural centers will be focused on the efficient use of land and existing infrastructure, encouraging innovative approaches to development where existing infrastructure and capacity can support increased density, and improving land use patterns to reduce carbon emissions. • The Development Project is the development or redevelopment project that provides the deliverables upon which the grant application is scored. Note that in most cases, the grant -funded activities, in and of themselves, do not comprise the development project. • Equitable Development creates healthy vibrant communities of opportunity where low income people, people of color, new immigrants and people with disabilities participate in and benefit from systems, decisions and activities that shape their neighborhoods. • Fair Housing Policy A written statement regarding the local municipality's commitment to fair housing, typically including the policy's purpose, procedures for complaint identification and referral, designating a fair housing officer, and outlining internal and external actions the municipality will undertake to advance fair housing. A best practices guide including a model local fair housing policy can be found here: https://metrocouncil.orq/Handbook/Files/Resources/Best-Practices/Fair- Housinq-Policy-Guide. aspx. • The Grant -Funded Activities are components of the development project described in the application. The grant -funded activities do not, in and of themselves, comprise the development project for which grant funds are awarded. • A Living Wage is 1 30% of the poverty guideline for a family of four within the 48 contiguous states established annually by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 2019 this annual wage is $33,475. 22