No. 2023 amending and re-adopting the dept. of redevelopment relocation policy and policy of management of acquired property to include the SSDA and the NNDA

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2. Personal interviews will be conducted to determine the relocation needs and preferences of displaced persons and businesses, to explain further those relocation payments and other assistance for which they may be eligible, and the procedures for obtaining such payments and assistance. These interviews will be conducted, to the extent possible, at a reasonable time convenient to the displaced person or business. 3. Current information on the availability, location, purchase price, and rental costs of comparable replacement commercial properties shall be provided to displaced businesses. 4. Current information on the availability, location, purchase price, and rental costs of comparable replacement dwellings shall be provided to displaced persons. The Department will provide information as to the criteria for identifying a comparable replacement dwelling and the estimated purchase price or rental cost to be used as the basis for establishing the upper limit of the replacement housing payment. 5. Inspections will be performed by the Department or its representative to ensure that the housing meets the requirements of being decent, safe, and sanitary as described at 49CFR 24.2 (f). 6. Counseling and referral services will be provided with regard to housing, financing, employment, health, welfare and other assistance to minimize hardship. 7. Relocation assistance payments will be applied to the purchase or rental of a comparable replacement dwelling, to moving expenses, to bringing a purchased dwelling up to local, state and federal codes and towards miscellaneous costs eligible under the Uniform Act. Relocation services shall be carried out in a manner that will promote maximum choice within the community's total housing supply. Services shall be provided to assure that the relocation process will not result in different or separate treatment on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or source of income. Any person having a grievance resulting from alleged discrimination, violation of federal, state or city codes and laws may follow grievance procedures established by both federal and state law by contacting Legal Services Program of Northern Indiana, Inc., the South Bend Human Rights Commission, or the United States Department of . Housing and Urban Development (Indianapolis office). Further information on the subject of grievances and equal opportunity is available at the City of South Bend, Department of Redevelopment, 1200 County -City Building, South Bend, Indiana 46601, 219 - 235 -9371. -2- Re- adopted: 12/19/03