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Discover the barriers that discourage rental property owners and managers in Scott County from accepting Section 8 vouchers, identify opportunities to correct misinformation or misperceptions of the program or the people who participate in it, create a marketing strategy to encourage greater rental property owner and manager participation in the program in the future, and identify other strategies to increase access to affordable housing in Scott County.

Analyze different Employer Assisted Housing (EAH) models to determine effectiveness at attracting and retaining a workforce and identify specific businesses or business sectors in Scott County that would benefit from and potentially participate in an EAH initiative in the county.

Assess effectiveness of current property assessment methods, research areas that have implemented alternative property assessment methods to compare and contrast, research savings associated with alternative assessment methods, and propose policy changes to ensure, if new standards are adopted, they are able to be utilized in the future.

Explore best models and approaches to creating a community land trust (CLT) in Scott county; gauge demand for land-trust properties; research best practices for optimizing affordability; assess benefits of CLT programs for families and homeowners; research public-private implementation models and potential funding sources; generate marketing ideas for a CLT program in Scott County.

Project Goal: Investigate the use of property condition scorecards in other communities, develop a standard metric to score properties in Duluth, and pilot the scorecard to begin identifying and mapping properties in poor condition that are at risk of deterioration and demolition, and that might benefit from City investments in infrastructure, housing assistance, and targeted services

Identify barriers for residential usage of the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program, identify successful national case studies of multifamily projects that utilized PACE, and make recommendations for how PACE could be used specifically for affordable housing developments and naturally-occurring affordable housing (NOAH) in Ramsey County.

Develop a literature review on housing stability-related initiatives external to Ramsey County and local housing and homelessness research; provide recommendations to align and leverage County programs with external initiatives; provide assistance with planning and executing a 2018 community convening on housing stability.

Evaluate the effectiveness of the Stable Homes, Stable Schools pilot program. Project Brief

To identify best practices to create a program that offers affordable, owner-occupied, single-family homes. Project Brief

Update the City's Stable Neighborhood Action Plan (SNAP) to evaluate neighborhood improvements since creating the original SNAP document in 2005.