1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to housing; modifying the preferences for redevelopment housing 
1.3 	applicants; amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 469.021.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 469.021, is amended to read:
1.6 	469.021 PREFERENCES.
1.7 	As between applicants equally in need and eligible for occupancy of a dwelling 
1.8 	and at the rent involved, preference shall be given to disabled veterans, persons with 
1.9 	disabilities, and families of service persons who died in service and to families of veterans. 
1.10 	In admitting families of low income to dwelling accommodations in any housing project an 
1.11 	authority shall, as far as is reasonably practicable, give consideration to applications from 
1.12 	families to which aid for dependent children is payable receiving assistance under chapter 
1.13 	256J, and to resident families to whom public assistance or supplemental security income 
1.14 	for the aged, blind, and disabled is payable, when those families are otherwise eligible.