Section 92.24. Purpose.

  The purpose of a relocation plan is to assure that an agency will provide adequate relocation payments and services and to determine whether displaced persons can be satisfactorily relocated. The department may not approve a relocation plan unless an agency submits evidence and assurances that relocation payments and services provide the following:

(1)  Displaced persons shall have an opportunity to occupy comparable, decent, safe and sanitary replacement housing;

(2)  Displaced business, farm operation or nonprofit organizations shall have an opportunity to occupy a comparable replacement and shall be assisted in reestablishing with a minimum of delay and loss of earnings;

(3)  Prompt and complete relocation payments will be made;

(4)  Project and program activities are designed to minimize displacement hardship;

(5)  Persons covered under Wisconsin's Open Housing Law shall be assisted to ensure equal opportunity to obtain housing from within a community's total housing supply.

(6)  Persons shall receive equal treatment in the relocation process;

(7)  Persons shall be given a reasonable time to move, and may not be required to move unless a comparable replacement is provided for or available;

(8)  Persons shall receive assistance consistent with needs, including referrals for social service, job and housing counseling, and transportation to available replacement dwellings.

Cr. Register, March, 1986, No. 363 , eff. 4-1-86.