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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.
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.
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.
Trump Seeks to End Permanent Supportive Housing for the Chronically Homeless
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.
Low-Income Renters Can’t Get the Housing Vouchers They Need
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.
White House Eyes Overhaul of Federal Housing Aid to the Poor
New York Times · 17 April 2025
The Trump administration has considered sharply curtailing vouchers as part of its budget for the 2026 fiscal year.
Bloomington eyes modern rooming houses for budget-conscious renters
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.
Now is the best time in years to go house-hunting in the Twin Cities
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.
Here’s what’s in the bipartisan housing bills that are making cities nervous
Minnesota Reformer · 11 March 2025
Housing developers say strict city zoning rules, exhaustive public hearings and aesthetic requirements make construction more expensive and reduce the number of units built.
HUD cuts expected to worsen America’s housing crisis, staffers say
Washington Post · 23 February 2025
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to be slashed in half, according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.
Met Council scales back plan for more density after suburbs on edge of the metro complained
StarTribune · 16 February 2025
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.
Met Council forecasts where population will grow across Twin Cities: Look up your city
StarTribune · 11 February 2025
The Twin Cities region will add 650,000 people by 2050, if the latest Metropolitan Council forecast holds true.
Opinion: St. Paul can hang its hat on some recent development successes
MinnPost · 13 February 2025
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.
Edina down payment assistance program runs out of money as housing market tightens
StarTribune · 8 February 2025
The East Edina Housing Foundation’s “Come Home 2 Edina” program helped 183 families buy homes over the past 18 years.
Do ‘sacred settlement’ tiny houses in Minnesota have a religious requirement for residents?
MinnPost · 29 January 2025
The question is raised because this type of housing is built on church properties to help the unhoused.