Housing aid could cover shelters, with separate construction deadlines

Recipients may use local affordable housing aid for emergency shelter construction, operations, and services. This applies to recipients of local affordable housing aid under this section. The aid must be spent on a qualifying project. This section applies to aid payable in 2027 and later.

Recipients must commit aid to qualifying projects by the stated deadline. This applies to recipients of local affordable housing aid under this section. A separate deadline applies to recipients planning qualifying affordable housing or emergency shelter construction, if they document that intent in their latest annual report to the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency. The year counts for the construction deadlines are missing from the text. For the separate construction deadlines, the deadline runs from the year the recipient received the aid, but the number of years is missing. This section applies to aid payable in 2027 and later.