Edina Neighbors for Affordable Housing

In a struggling area of Lincoln, a program pays for repairs and energy efficiency upgrades in rental buildings. In return, landlords must keep rents affordable.

A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis found a more than 60% drop in homebuyers with modest budgets from 2021-24. Meanwhile, sales of more expensive homes rose.

Some liberal cities try to circumvent the market and use lotteries for affordable housing. This practice merits more scrutiny.

The expert consensus holds that the way to bring down housing costs is to build more housing; and the best way to do that is to remove the regulatory barriers to a construction boom.

Experts say a lack of consumer confidence has outweighed the effect of the Fed’s modest interest rate cut and kept would-be home buyers on the fence.

Neglected houses are being repaired in preparation for sale to first-time homeowners, and the landlords who once tried to profit off of them by cutting costs on maintenance have exited the Minnesota market.

The U.S. has two overlapping problems: the housing crisis and despondency in young men.

Middle-income households are being squeezed out of the market, even as listing inventory rebounds from its post-pandemic lows.

Two Twin Cities area churches — St. Paul’s Mosaic Christian Community and Roseville’s Prince of Peace — have built nine tiny homes in what are called sacred settlements.

The Phillips neighborhood in Minneapolis is the focus of an Institute for Metropolitan Opportunity report on public money and regional housing strategies.

Minnesota cities do not want state legislators to tell them how much housing to approve, what it should look like or how many parking spots to require per apartment.

City has added housing at moderately affordable prices but, like most cities, it struggles to meet needs of its lowest income residents.

While Americans continue to struggle under unrelentingly high rents, as many as 223,000 affordable housing units across the U.S. could disappear in the next five years alone.

Alongside paying higher housing costs, Twin Cities area households have bigger, better places to call home than they did in in 1997.

Millions of single-family homes are underused, on spacious lots. Refitting them for “roommate houses” or backyard cottages could make a difference.