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Housing Alliance. Secondly, there are programs that they are trying to continue to study such as HOME Consortium, The Narthside Initiative, Durham Homebuyer Program for Teachers and Police, Town of Cary Program, and Raleigh's 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness. Another Baal was to have same members attend the Affordable Housing Alliance meeting to gain more information. She said that so much happens in an AHA meeting and the benefits of collaborating with them is that they have come up with a joint application process and someone could just fill out one application to acquire a home. John Link arrived at 6:51 p.m. The second collaboration issue is the Rental Housing Manager Position and this is an excellent opportunity for collaboration. They strongly encourage the Board to support this. She said that they are an advisory board but they have felt like a research board and they would like guidance from the Board of County Commissioners about what kind of advice the Board would like. Chair Jacobs said that the Rental Manager Position was going to be a budget request and Allan Rosen said that they have discussed this and the specific motion they as a board passed was that they supported this in concept but they did not necessarily endorse the very specific dollar proposal. c. Land Use Policy Committee Jabrina Robinson Jabrina Robinson said that this subcommittee has tasked itself with being educated on potential land use policies to develop and protect affordable housing in Orange County. They have looked at inclusionary zoning policies in general in North Carolina and throughout the country to see what would be viable in Orange County. They also want to integrate themselves into the comprehensive plan and to make sure affordable hauling voices are being heard through this process. Chair Jacobs said that they are reconstituting the land use plan update process, but there will be a recommendation from the Planning Board about how to proceed. He said that they have discussed having advisory boards create a vision of what they think in their area of expertise should be the goals and objectives. In regards to research, he would like to see what others are doing to preserve manufactured housing as a viable option of the housing stock and what the County's options are under the law. Commissioner Foushee made reference to the articles distributed by Chair Jacobs and said that in some cases the renters of the land are given first option to collaborate and purchase the land that may be sold. She said that in Chapel Hill, there are owners of mobile homes in mobile home parks, but they do not own the land. She said that if these parks are closed, these people will no longer be homeowners. Commissioner Halkiotis said that these people are on borrowed time and the County needs to advocate for these people in mobile homes. Alejandro Hansen asked Chair Jacobs to forward this article to them. Allan Rosen said that the reason he skipped the presentation that he was going to give was that the subcommittee is coming to some level of closure. He wants to make sure that these subcommittees are going forward. The important question for him is how the AHAB will integrate into the emergning new strategies for the comprehensive planning process. He asked that they focus on this for the rest of the meeting and how to flesh out this charge. Planning Director Craig Benedict said that they are reconstituting the process of the land use plan update and last night the Planning Board met and they discussed looking at the charge of the Planning Board and other advisory boards as it relates to the land use plan. One of the questions is whether this plan is going to be a policy document or a growth management document. There will be more Planning Board meetings about this issue.