Edina Neighbors for Affordable Housing (ENAH) is an all-volunteer organization of Edina residents who believe that Edina should be an equitable, welcoming, and sustainable community with senior and workforce housing available for people of all income levels at all stages of life.

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In Nebraska, Makeovers for Buildings That Don’t Price Out the Locals

New York Times · 7 December 2025

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.

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Fewer Working Class People Can Afford Homes

StarTribune · 18 November 2025

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.

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The Hidden Cost of ‘Affordable Housing’

The Atlantic · 29 October 2025

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

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Mamdani has a point about rent control

The Atlantic · 2 November 2025

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.

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‘Everything on pause’: Interest rate cut can’t spark housing market burdened by uncertainty

MinnPost · 6 October 2025

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.

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Hundreds of Minnesota homes neglected by hedge fund are now in hands of nonprofits

Minnesota StarTribune · 1 October 2025

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.

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Opinion: What’s really depressing America’s young men

Washington Post · 7 August 2025

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

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Homeownership: Not Enough Supply for Middle-Income Buyers

New York Times · 26 June 2025

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

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Tiny houses provide a home for those struggling with housing instability

MPR News · 6 June 2025

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.

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New study on affordable housing rekindles long-simmering debate

MinnPost · 18 June 2025

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

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Minnesota cities to legislators: Don’t tell us how to fix the housing shortage

StarTribune · 8 May 2025

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.

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Bloomington’s ordinance requiring affordable housing in multi-unit developments has brought mixed results

StarTribune · 21 March 2025

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

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Takeaways from AP’s report on affordable housing disappearing across the U.S.

StarTribune ·

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.

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Roofs, repairs, and rodents: How housing quality has climbed in the Twin Cities

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis · 29 April 2025

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

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Would the Housing Crisis Ease if Boomers Rented Out Their Empty Rooms?

New York Times · 4 May 2025

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

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