Preserving Housing: A Best Practices Review

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Preserving Housing: A Best Practices Review

April 16, 2003
This report recommends best practices for local governments to preserve housing in their jurisdiction and features local agencies that use the practices.

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Summary, 4 pages, PDF format
Summary, plain text format
Full text of report, 100 pages, PDF format
Individual chapters, PDF format

*Supplemental Items (These do not appear in the printed report. All are available here in PDF format.)

Surveys
- Local housing organizations
  (Aggregate results) (Table of questionnaire recipients and respondents)
- Sample of cities from among those with the State Building Code
  (Aggregate results) (Table of questionnaire recipients and respondents)
- Sample of cities from among those without the State Building Code
  (Aggregate results) (Table of questionnaire recipients and respondents)
Links to Web sites related to preserving housing
Checklist of performance measures in preserving housing
Supplemental materials from examples of best practices
- Cottage Grove's rental inspection checklist
- Faribault's building code handouts (select examples only)
- Mounds View's pre-inspection information
- St. Paul's Neighborhood Housing and Property Improvement Rules and Procedures (select excerpts)

The evaluators for this report: Jody Hauer, Project Manager, Phone (651) 296-8501, Carrie Meyerhoff, and Lori Sakk