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GUIDELINES FOR PRIORITY FUNDING FOR HOUSING PERFORMANCE <br /> <br /> POLICY 39 EVALUATION CRITERIA <br /> <br />The following are the factors which the Metropolitan Council <br />uses to evaluate a community's housing performance. The <br />relative weight of each factor is indicated. <br /> AFFORDABLE AND DIVERSE HOUSING <br /> <br />Points <br />0 to 5* <br /> <br />0 toS* <br /> <br />0 to 6* <br /> <br />1. Low- and Moderate-Income Homeownership Units - <br /> Municipalities are ranked according to the <br /> percentage of their total homesteaded housing <br /> units in 1980 which are affordable to low- and <br /> moderate-income persons based on 1980 market <br /> value data compiled by the county. The <br /> percentage of mobile homes is added to arrive <br /> at a total percentage. <br /> <br /> 2. Low- and Moderate-Income Rental Units - <br /> Municioalities are ranked according [o the <br /> percen%age of their total rental housinK in a <br /> · price range affordable to low- and moderate- <br /> income persons based on the most current <br /> census data. The percentage of substandard <br /> rental units is subtracted to arrive at a <br /> total percentage. (For example - units <br /> renting for $149 or less, 1970 census.) <br /> <br /> 3. Subsidized Housin~ Units - <br /> ~unicipalities are ranked according to the <br /> percentage of their total housing stock that <br /> ~s eomprised of subsidized units constructed, <br /> purchased, assisted or apDroved by the funding <br /> · n <br /> agencies for construetlo , purchase or <br /> assistance in the community for low- and <br /> moderate-income persons. (Includes HUD low <br /> rent public housing, rent supplement projects, <br /> Section 8 assisted units, Section 235, 236 and <br /> 221-D3 below-market rent projects, and units <br /> financed or issued by the Farmers Home <br /> Administration.) <br /> <br /> <br />