1998 Minnesota Code
Chapters 245 - 267 Public Welfare and Related Activities
Chapter 256 Human Services
Section 256.973 Housing for persons who are elderly, persons with physical or developmental disabilities, and single-parent families.

256.973 Housing for persons who are elderly, persons with physical or developmental disabilities, and single-parent families.

Subdivision 1. Home sharing. The home-sharing grant program authorized by section 462A.05, subdivision 24, is transferred from the Minnesota housing finance agency to the department of human services. The housing finance agency shall administer the current grants that terminate on August 30, 1995. The department of human services shall administer grants funded after August 30, 1995. The department of human services may engage in housing programs, as defined by the agency, to provide grants to housing sponsors who will provide a home-sharing program for low- and moderate-income elderly, persons with physical or developmental disabilities, or single-parent families in urban and rural areas.

Subd. 2. Matching owners and tenants. Housing sponsors of home-sharing programs, as defined by the agency, shall match existing homeowners with prospective tenants who will contribute either rent or services to the homeowner, where either the homeowner or the prospective tenant is elderly, a person with physical or developmental disabilities, or the head of a single-parent family. Home-sharing projects will coordinate efforts with appropriate public and private agencies and organizations in their area.

Subd. 3. Information for participants. Housing sponsors who receive funding through these programs shall provide homeowners and tenants participating in a home-sharing program with information regarding their rights and obligations as they relate to federal and state tax law including, but not limited to, taxable rental income, homestead credit under chapter 273, and the Property Tax Refund Act under chapter 290A.

Subd. 4. Technical assistance. The department of human services may provide technical assistance to sponsors of home-sharing programs or may contract or delegate the provision of technical assistance.

Subd. 5. Using outside agencies. The department of human services may delegate, use, or employ any federal, state, regional, or local public or private agency or organization, including organizations of physically handicapped persons, upon terms it deems necessary or desirable, to assist in the exercise of any of the powers granted in this section.

HIST: 1995 c 207 art 3 s 16