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The agency which forecasts regional housing needs is the Metropolitan Council, and it has projected a need for 100,000 new subsidized housing units over the next 10 years. Each year 10,000 new units are needed, but this area receives only 4,000 federally- subsidized units. Thus, the Metropolitan Council is attempting to encourage all communities to re- spond to this need through their housing plans. Suburban areas are especially encouraged to assess their ability to accommodate additional subsidized units, since in 1971 90% of all subsidized housing and most of the lower-priced, nonsubsidized housing was located in Minneapolis - St. Paul. With a portion of Ramsey projected to be part of the Urban Service Area, the City will be required to provide housing for a range of income levels and life- styles. This would also imply, then, a variety of housing types. As described above, the Metropolitan Council has assessed the current housing situation and defined local responsi- bilities. There are three m an areas of concern in provid- ing regional housing which each community is to respond to. They are: 1) low- and - moderate income housing 2) modest -cost housing 3) maintenance and rehabilitation of existing housing stock The first concern is housing that is affordable to low - and- moderate income persons. This housing should cost no more than 22 times the purchaser's annual income. To qualify as a low -or- moderate income person, your yearly in- come can be no more than $19,400. Therefore, low -and- moderate income housing can cost no more than 22 times that, or $48,500 per unit. The second concern is modest -cost housing or housing afford- able to persons earning $25,123 or less per year, and costing $63,000 or less per unit. The chart below breaks income groups according to family size. All those income groups to the left of the line would qualify for modest -cost housing.