Greater Housing Density Would Mean a Better Shot at Grants Under New Biden Plan
Kery Murakami · Route Fifty · 16 May 2022
A White House initiative would give extra points for transportation dollars to states and localities that allow more multifamily housing in areas reserved for single-family homes.
Housing shortage, soaring rents squeeze US college students
Janie Har · StarTribune · 26 April 2022
Nationally, 43% of students at four-year universities experienced housing insecurity in 2020, up from 35% in 2019.
Minnesota eviction filings soared in April
James Walsh and MaryJo Webster · StarTribune · 7 May 2022
Court filings in April 2022 were not only higher than March, but far above pre-pandemic levels.
Opinion: Stop blaming millennials for the housing crisis
Catherine Rampell · Washington Post · 21 April 2022
Where, exactly, are millennials supposed to live these days?
The prescription for healthy communities: Investing in housing
Bukata Hayes, Dr. Rahshana Price-Isuk and Diane Tran · MinnPost · 1 April 2022
By providing access to stable housing, we would not only leverage better health outcomes, but also reduce health care costs.
Rents reach ‘insane’ levels across US with no end in sight
R.J. Rico · AP News · 20 February 2022
ents have exploded across the country, causing many to dig deep into their savings, downsize to subpar units or fall behind on payments and risk eviction now that a federal moratorium has ended.
When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord
Heather Vogell · ProPublica · 7 February 2022
Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, with the help of government-backed Freddie Mac. Meanwhile, tenants say they’re the ones paying the price.
St. Paul zoning changes pave the way for smaller homes, cottage clusters
Katie Galioto · StarTribune · 20 January 2022
“People have talked about ‘missing middle housing’ as being something that American cities could provide more of or support,” St. Paul Planning Director Luis Pereira said in a presentation to the St. Paul city council. “We’re talking about the lower-density scale of that — duplexes, triplexes, townhomes, cottage or courtyard housing options.”
More and more Twin Cities suburbs are creating programs to help people of color buy homes
Solomon Gustavo · MinnPost · 14 Jan 2022
Woodbury, St. Louis Park and Edina have launched programs, and Minnetonka is considering one.
Cities Need More Robust Data and Analysis to Better Address the Eviction Crisis
Andre Claudio · Route Fifty · 6 December 2021
A new report says that localities should build partnerships with courts and organizations to capture more types of data to spot and stop evictions.