| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the development of a long-range state low income |
|
|
housing plan. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is |
|
|
amended by adding Section 2306.0725 to read as follows: |
|
|
Sec. 2306.0725. LONG-RANGE LOW INCOME HOUSING PLAN. |
|
|
(a) The director shall prepare and submit to the board an |
|
|
integrated long-range state low income housing plan covering at |
|
|
least six years. |
|
|
(b) Not later than the 30th day after the date the board |
|
|
receives and approves the plan, the board shall submit the plan to |
|
|
the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house |
|
|
of representatives. |
|
|
(c) The plan must establish policy goals for meeting low |
|
|
income housing needs on a statewide and regional basis and |
|
|
prescribe strategies to meet those goals. The plan must include: |
|
|
(1) an estimate and analysis of the housing needs of |
|
|
the following populations in each uniform state service region: |
|
|
(A) individuals and families of moderate, low, |
|
|
very low, and extremely low income; |
|
|
(B) individuals with special needs, with |
|
|
specific emphasis on the needs of elderly individuals and |
|
|
individuals with disabilities; and |
|
|
(C) homeless individuals; |
|
|
(2) a proposal to use all available housing resources |
|
|
to address the housing needs of the populations described by |
|
|
Subdivision (1) by establishing funding levels for all |
|
|
housing-related programs; |
|
|
(3) an estimate of the number of federally assisted |
|
|
housing units available for individuals and families of low and |
|
|
very low income and individuals with special needs in each uniform |
|
|
state service region; |
|
|
(4) a description of state programs that govern the |
|
|
use of all available housing resources; |
|
|
(5) a resource allocation plan that targets all |
|
|
available housing resources to individuals and families of low and |
|
|
very low income and individuals with special needs in each uniform |
|
|
state service region; |
|
|
(6) a description of the department's efforts to |
|
|
monitor and analyze the unused or underused federal resources of |
|
|
other state agencies for housing-related services and services for |
|
|
homeless individuals and the department's recommendations to |
|
|
ensure the full use by the state of all available federal resources |
|
|
for those services in each uniform state service region; |
|
|
(7) strategies to provide housing for individuals and |
|
|
families with special needs in each uniform state service region; |
|
|
(8) a description of the department's efforts to |
|
|
encourage in each uniform state service region the construction of |
|
|
housing units that incorporate energy efficient construction and |
|
|
appliances; |
|
|
(9) an estimate and analysis of the housing supply in |
|
|
each uniform state service region; |
|
|
(10) an inventory of all publicly and, where possible, |
|
|
privately funded housing resources, including public housing |
|
|
authorities, housing finance corporations, community housing |
|
|
development organizations, and community action agencies; |
|
|
(11) strategies for meeting rural housing needs; |
|
|
(12) an action plan for colonias that addresses |
|
|
current policy goals for colonia programs, strategies to meet the |
|
|
policy goals, and the projected outcomes with respect to the policy |
|
|
goals; and |
|
|
(13) strategies for eliminating redundant and |
|
|
inefficient practices. |
|
|
(d) The priorities and policies in each housing plan adopted |
|
|
by the department must be consistent to the extent practical with |
|
|
the priorities and policies established in the long-range state low |
|
|
income housing plan. |
|
|
(e) The director may subdivide the uniform state service |
|
|
regions as necessary for purposes of the long-range state low |
|
|
income housing plan. |
|
|
SECTION 2. The executive director of the Texas Department |
|
|
of Housing and Community Affairs shall submit to the governing |
|
|
board of the department the first long-range state low income |
|
|
housing plan, as required by Section 2306.0725, Government Code, as |
|
|
added by this Act, not later than March 18, 2010. |
|
|
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |