Bill Text: MI HB5336 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Housing: affordable; use of certain factors in local housing ordinances to designate area median income for affordable housing determinations; require. Creates new act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-12-31 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 11/14/2023 [HB5336 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB5336-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5336
the people of the state of michigan enact:
(a) "Affordable housing" means housing for which the occupants pay no more than 30% of their income for gross housing costs.
(b) "Area median income" means the median household income, adjusted for family size, of a geographic area of this state.
(c) "Federal poverty level" means the poverty guidelines published annually in the Federal Register by the United States Department of Health and Human Services under its authority to revise the poverty line under 42 USC 9902.
(d) "Housing ordinance" means an ordinance, rule, resolution, or regulation of a municipality that governs housing-related activities.
(e) "Municipality" means a city, village, or township.
(f) "Poverty rate" means the percentage of all individuals residing in a municipality whose family income is less than the federal poverty level applicable to that family.
Sec. 2. A housing ordinance of a municipality that has a poverty rate equal to or greater than 20% must require the use of the current United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Metropolitan Fair Market Rent Area published under 42 USC 1437f that is specific to that municipality for designating the area median income applicable to that municipality in making a determination concerning affordable housing.
Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
