STORIES OF IMPACT AND PROGRESS ON MINNESOTA’S SIX HOUSING GOALS
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New Homes in Duluth Highlight State Investments – Decker Dwellings & Garfield Square Apartments
Minnesota Housing produces videos for an occasional series called “Mobile Minnesota Housing.” These feature Commissioner Ho and other Agency leaders when they are visiting partners around the state. This video features two new construction projects in Duluth: the Decker Dwellings groundbreaking (a 9% tax credit project), and Garfield Square Apartments (financed with Housing Infrastructure Bonds).…
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Rise Modular Welcomes Tenants February 1 to First Modular Apartment Building in Minneapolis
Launched less than two years ago, Rise Modular welcomes tenants to its first completed project on February 1, 2021. MOD-42 is a 30-unit apartment building in the Standish-Ericsson neighborhood of Minneapolis with a mix of studio and one-bedroom apartments, in walking distance of the Blue Line and close to shopping and recreation. Built as a…
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Jeremiah Program Completes 40 New Affordable Homes for Single Mothers with Children in Rochester
Jeremiah Program is a Minnesota-based non-profit that offers one of the nation’s most successful strategies for transforming families from poverty to prosperity two generations at a time. They provide affordable housing paired with intensive services designed to help single mothers excel in the workforce, prepare their children to succeed in school, and reduce generational dependence…
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City of Hutchinson Preserves 39 Naturally Occurring Affordable Homes (NOAH) with New Developer
To “Preserve the Homes We Have” in Minnesota, Greater Minnesota Housing Fund (GMHF) partnered with a new developer and the City of Hutchinson for preservation of 39 Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) rental homes. 907 Dale Street Apartments is a 39-unit three-building project built in 1974. The project was in dire need of upgrades to…
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Construction Revolution Advances Housing Innovation & Technology to Meet Minnesota’s Affordable Housing Needs
Construction Revolution is a movement of individuals and organizations who share a common interest in making housing more affordable for all — by dramatically reducing the cost to build it. Based in Minnesota, we are run by a Core Team of local leaders who came together organically around the call to action in the 2018…
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City of Saint Paul passes S.A.F.E. Housing Saint Paul Tenant Protections
(As of 4.21.21 there is pending litigation on this program.) In 2017, the City of Saint Paul developed a Fair Housing Work Group to outline potential pathways for the city to advance fair housing. The Fair Housing Work Group identified goals to create the infrastructure needed to support policy and strategy work around changing the…
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Habitat for Humanity Home provides an Accessible New Beginning in Faribault
The first time Faribault High School freshman Lul Ahmed steps inside her completed new home on Willow Street, she glows with satisfaction. Her eight brothers — seven of them younger than her — dash from room to room and marvel at everything that makes this dwelling so different from their old house. There’s a laundry…
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Rebuilding Duluth
The City of Duluth, in collaboration with the Duluth Economic Development Authority and the Duluth HRA, released the Rebuild Duluth Program in November of 2019 and a second round of was released during the fall of 2020. The Program provides free infill lots throughout Duluth to applicants interested in building new housing. Applications are scored…
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St. Louis Park Offers Lease Incentive Payments to Landlords Participating in Housing Choice Voucher Program
A lack of participation by landlords combined with low vacancy rates makes it challenging for Housing Choice Voucher/Section 8 holders to find suitable housing in St. Louis Park. To spur participation by landlords, the St. Louis Park Housing Authority introduced two incentive payments for leases signed between October 2020 and May 2021. The incentive payments…
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St. Louis Park Inclusionary Housing Policy Helps Ensure Addition of Affordable Housing Units
Since 2015, the City of St. Louis Park’s inclusionary housing policy has required developers to include affordable housing units in multi-unit, market-rate residential developments that receive financial help from the city and require land use approvals or amendments to the comprehensive plan. The intent of the policy is to create affordable units in market-rate developments…
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St. Louis Park Enacts Ordinances to Protect Tenants
Rental properties make up about 44 percent of available housing in St. Louis Park. A 2017 study showed that of those rental properties, about 45 percent was naturally occurring affordable housing (NOAH). It’s suspected that figure has decreased more since 2017, which is indicative of the overall decline in NOAH properties in the Twin Cities.…
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Broad Partnership Creates New, High-quality Public Housing for Homeless Families
The Twin Cities, like most parts of Minnesota, faces a dire shortage of safe, permanent housing options for families with children experiencing homelessness. In 2019, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) opened the Minnehaha Townhomes, 16 townhomes dedicated to these families, who are referred directly from the Hennepin County homeless shelter system. MPHA developed, owns,…