Bruce F. Vento: “Minnesota was very quick to pick up on the assisted housing program that was enacted and put in place in the early…”

“Minnesota was very quick to pick up on the assisted housing program that was enacted and put in place in the early 1970s. The consequence is that we have a significant concentration of assisted housing, and this assisted housing program worked very well in Minnesota, like a lot of other public programs and other initiatives that not always have an even affect across the country, but things seem to work very well there in terms of what we are doing. And the State has made this commitment, I think the various cities and communities, and what is happening is some of the best low-income housing that has a market approach without a certain contract with regards to Section 8, my colleagues, and those contracts for 1 year are somewhat uncertain, and without the type of notice requirements and the implementation of LIHPRA, we are losing it. So we basically have a crisis.”