Edina Neighbors for Affordable Housing

NIMBYs come in a variety of forms, but the most confounding are those who call themselves progressive yet abuse laws conceived to protect the environment in order to block desperately needed housing, driving up costs and fueling homelessness.

Soaring real estate markets have created a worldwide housing crisis. What can we learn from a city that has largely avoided it?

More than 23,000 ADU permits were issued in California last year, compared with fewer than 5,000 in 2017.

The dream of home ownership or an affordable rental is becoming unreachable for many.

The $1 billion bill is the most the state has ever spent on housing, but much of the money is one-time cash.

The first-ever tax devoted to affordable housing would raise $200 million a year for housing projects and programs in the seven-county area. It is part of a $1 billion investment in affordability that sponsors and advocates are calling historic.

Policymakers of good will face the enormous and perhaps insuperable task of restoring integration to center stage while somehow avoiding the political and logistical errors that characterized busing and affirmative action in the past.

Tax increment financing is often criticized by those who don’t understand it. You just can’t build a building that will be affordable to people with lower incomes unless the costs are subsidized somehow.

Despite the 2040 Comprehensive Plan’s elimination of single-family zoning four years ago, zoning codes have not yet been updated to align with the plan, making it hard to redevelop lots into multifamily housing.

A Duluth developer’s plans to convert part of an apartment building built with a public subsidy into a boutique hotel has prompted a public outcry.

Several states are working to increase the pace of home construction and the availability of affordable housing.

Audio interview with the author of Poverty, by America.

Cities in general, and downtowns specifically, have been organized for too long to be specialized places.

The endurance of poverty in the United States is the product not only of larger shifts such as deindustrialization and family dissolution, but of choices and actions by more fortunate Americans. This includes exclusionary zoning in suburbs.

Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity and the Minnesota Homeownership Center are launching a new down payment assistance program.