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

Greta Kaul · 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

Katy Reed · 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.

Jesse Bedayn and Arushi Gupta · 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

EriK Hembre · 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?

Conor Dougherty · 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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Trump Seeks to End Permanent Supportive Housing for the Chronically Homeless

Jason DeParle · New York Times · 2 May 2025

The plan would increase money for emergency shelters but end aid for permanent supportive housing, the focus of a decades-long movement to serve society’s most vulnerable.

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Low-Income Renters Can’t Get the Housing Vouchers They Need

Samantha Latson · New York Times · 17 April 2025

A fraction of rent-burdened households receive Section 8 vouchers — and they may not even be able to use them.

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White House Eyes Overhaul of Federal Housing Aid to the Poor

Tony Romm · New York Times · 17 April 2025

The Trump administration has considered sharply curtailing vouchers as part of its budget for the 2026 fiscal year.

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Bloomington eyes modern rooming houses for budget-conscious renters

Greta Kaul · StarTribune · 5 April 2025

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

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Now is the best time in years to go house-hunting in the Twin Cities

Jim Buchta · StarTribune · 5 April 2025

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

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