§ 2-397. Housing.

There shall be within the department of city development a division to address matters of housing. The responsibilities of this division will be assigned by the director of the department of city development, and will include the development and administration of an active program to increase new housing construction and to expand and improve the rehabilitation of existing housing within the city; the development and administration of an active program for expanding and improving minority entrepreneurship through implementation of a community enterprise program; the planning and preparation of the grant application for the city's participation in the federal community development block grant program and the implementation and maintenance of administrative procedures for the management and monitoring of program operations conducted with funds received through the community development block grant program; serving as the principal contact with the federal government for all matters pertaining to planning and implementation of the community development block grant program. Within the division, there shall be a section 3 certification office to monitor and enforce projects implementing section 3 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1968 (as amended).

(Ord. No. 050465, § 1, 4-28-05)