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Richfield pushes tenant protections, missing-middle and permanent housing trust funding in state priorities
Summary
Community development staff recommended seeking a 30-day written notice to tenants before eviction actions, allowing some LAHA funds for administration, advancing missing-middle zoning (two-family and accessory dwelling units by right), prohibiting Section 8 discrimination, and permanently allowing pooled increment transfers to the affordable housing trust fund.
Community Development Director Melissa Palman presented the department's legislative priorities at the Nov. 25 work session, centering on tenant protections, affordable-housing funding and zoning changes.
Palman asked the council whether to ask the legislature to make a form of transition aid permanent and to clarify whether the city should ask to be "made whole" for the impacts of a prior tax-rate…
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