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30.01.090 City Subsidy Projects - Long-Term Affordability Requirements.

Label: City code section

(Amended by Ordinances 186028, 187380, 188440, and 191973, effective January 1, 2025.)

  1. A.  City subsidy projects that in the future request and receive a city subsidy from Prosper Portland, PHB, or another Bureau or agency for the purpose of creating or preserving rental housing affordable to households below 80 percent of MFI are subject to a minimum of 60-year affordability contract requirements developed by PHB consistent with the implementing charge in Subsection 30.01.090 B.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, City subsidy projects that receive a Rental Rehabilitation Conditional Grant will be subject to a minimum of 10-year affordability contract requirement in accordance with the Rental Rehabilitation Conditional Grant product guidelines.
  2. B.  All bureaus and agencies administering affordable rental housing subsidy programs will be responsible for implementing this section.  As the primary agency charged by the City to negotiate and confer affordable housing subsidies, PHB will develop implementing strategies consistent with the 60-year affordability principles contained in this Section, the Administrative Procedures Implementing Title 30 and the approved 1998/99 Consolidated Plan, Principle III (Ordinance 172259).
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