43-33-75 - Housing Task Force; membership; purpose; hearings; chairman; authorization to hire staff; funding.
§ 43-33-75. Housing Task Force; membership; purpose; hearings; chairman; authorization to hire staff; funding.
(1) The Governor shall appoint a Housing Task Force of not more than twenty-five (25) persons representing organizations or persons interested in increasing the availability of quality, affordable housing in the state. The Governor shall include at least two (2) representatives from each of the following associations: the Homebuilders Association of Mississippi, the Mississippi Association of Realtors and the Mississippi Bankers Association. At least one (1) person shall be named to represent each of the following organizations or interests: insurance, architecture, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Farmers Home Administration, regional public housing authorities, the Mississippi Municipal Association, the Mississippi Association of Supervisors, the Mississippi Housing Finance Corporation, the Mississippi Association of Planning and Development Districts, the Mississippi Manufactured Housing Association, the Veterans Home Purchase Board or its successor, private nonprofit organizations active in housing issues, and concerned citizens.
(2) The task force shall study housing conditions and needs in Mississippi and furnish to the Governor and Legislature a report on its findings, including a comprehensive policy and plan to improve housing in the state, by November 15, 1988. The task force may consider, but is not limited to, the following: the condition and affordability of existing housing in the state; current and projected demand for single and multifamily housing; methods to improve the operation and effectiveness of federal, state and local public and private programs in reducing the number of substandard housing units, increasing the number of standard units, reducing the costs, and improving the safety of housing; methods to finance the production of new, affordable units and the rehabilitation of substandard units; and the need for a single agency to implement housing policy in the state. The report of the task force shall identify changes in existing statutes and propose legislation establishing new authority where necessary to carry out its recommendations.
(3) Regional public hearings may be called by the task force to inform citizens about the work of the task force and to receive public comments about housing in the state.
(4) The Governor shall name the chairman who shall call meetings and coordinate the work of the task force.
(5) The Governor's Office of Federal-State Programs is authorized to employ or contract for the necessary professional and technical staff to support the task force in carrying out this section. The task force may request the cooperation of public or private agencies as needed to carry out this section.
(6) The Governor's office is authorized to expend monies made available to it from any source public or private to carry out the purpose of this section.
Sources: Laws, 1988, ch. 318, eff from and after passage (approved April 13, 1988).