Edina Neighbors for Affordable Housing

Cities around the country are facilitating “co-living,” also known as single-room occupancy or rooming houses, to build more affordable housing.

Homes are on the market longer but there are higher mortgage rates, few listings, rising insurance costs and record home prices.

Housing developers say strict city zoning rules, exhaustive public hearings and aesthetic requirements make construction more expensive and reduce the number of units built.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to be slashed in half, according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.

Suburbs on the fringe of the Twin Cities metro get to plan for a little more space between houses under the Met Council 2050 plan.

The Twin Cities region will add 650,000 people by 2050, if the latest Metropolitan Council forecast holds true.

Since 2021, St. Paul has quietly passed some of the best zoning and land use reforms in the nation, and some developers are already taking advantage of new rules governing housing development.

The East Edina Housing Foundation’s “Come Home 2 Edina” program helped 183 families buy homes over the past 18 years.

The question is raised because this type of housing is built on church properties to help the unhoused.

For a variety of reasons, the two cities just had two of the worst housing years anywhere in the Midwest.

In Toronto, where housing prices are racing ahead of inventory, residents are building homes in their yards and moving their children or their parents into them.

From loosening local zoning rules that limit density to reforming homeowners associations and curbing corporate ownership of multifamily buildings, the goal is to spur new construction and reduce consumer costs.

Millions of rents across the United States may now be set using one company’s algorithmic software, according to a federal lawsuit and a Washington Post analysis. Enter your county to see local information.

Homelessness soared to the highest level on record this year, driven by forces that included a surge in migrants seeking asylum, a national housing crisis and the end of pandemic-era measures to protect the needy.

Readers respond to a roofer’s plan to end the housing crisis, and builders offer insights.