A bill to amend 1933 (Ex Sess) PA 18, entitled “An act to authorize any city, village, township, or county to purchase, acquire, construct, maintain, operate, improve, extend, and repair housing facilities; to eliminate housing conditions which are detrimental to the public peace, health, safety, morals, or welfare; and for any such purposes to authorize any such city, village, township, or county to create a commission with power to effectuate said purposes, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such commission and of such city, village, township, or county; and for any such purposes to authorize any such commission, city, village, township, or county to issue notes and revenue bonds; to regulate the issuance, sale, retirement, and refunding of such notes and bonds; to regulate the rentals of such projects and the use of the revenues of the projects; to prescribe the manner of selecting tenants for such projects; to provide for condemnation of private property for such projects; to confer certain powers upon such commissions, cities, villages, townships, and counties in relation to such projects, including the power to receive aid and cooperation of the federal government; to provide for a referendum thereon; to provide for cooperative financing by 2 or more commissions, cities, villages, townships, or counties or any combination thereof; to provide for the issuance, sale, and retirement of revenue bonds and special obligation notes for such purposes; to provide for financing agreements between cooperating borrowers; to provide for other matters relative to the bonds and notes and methods of cooperative financing; for other purposes; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” by amending section 44a (MCL 125.694a), as amended by 1996 PA 338.
This act originally authorized cities, villages, townships, or counties in Michigan to create commissions for managing housing facilities and addressing housing conditions detrimental to public welfare. The amendment proposed by H.B. 5757 specifies that a project management or local housing commission can only terminate a tenancy or contract for just cause. Just cause is defined as non-compliance with lease obligations, unlawful use of the unit, or maintaining unsafe or unsanitary conditions. The bill is designed to take effect 90 days after its enactment and is contingent upon the enactment of related legislation, House Bill No. 5756.
Co-sponsored by Reps.
Referred to the Committee on Economic Development and Small Business
