Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City of South Portland seeks to cultivate a safe, equitable,inclusive,sustainable, resilient, and vibrant community that reflects the goals set forth in the City’s Comprehensive Plan, and other official plans and policies adopted by the City Council. The City recognizes that in order to succeed and grow in a healthy manner,it must understand its current and future housing conditions, as well as unmethousingopportunities and needs. To that end, the City is issuing a Request forProposals (RFP) for a Housing Needs Assessment and Strategy (HNAS). TheHNAS willdocument existing housing conditions in the community; identify market and other forces that affect housing supply and demand now and over the next 10 years; and identify gaps or deficiencies in maintaining equitable access to safe, resilient, and reliable housing to as many community members as possible.The HNAS will identify opportunities for improvingand expandinghousing optionsto meet the community’s needs.An implementation strategy is a critical outcome of the HNAS and will chart the course for policy, procedural, and administrative changes that the City pursues to ensure housing equity and accessthat tracks with the city’s ability to serve.
