Edina Neighbors for Affordable Housing

Minnesota comes in second to last in terms of education racial equality among the 50 states. Minnesota only loses out to its rival Wisconsin, which takes first place in terms of racial inequality.

Sixty-five percent of Americans often considered “middle class” – those earning more than 200 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) – are struggling financially today and don’t expect that to change for the remainder of their lives.

There are laws to protect people from discrimination in buying, renting and living in their homes.

Edina is the latest Minnesota city to allow secondary units (also called small apartments, guest suites or otherwise) on existing residential lots.

Each lot will house a multi-unit housing complex, and the complex will be cooperatively owned by the Black and Indigenous families occupying the units.

Having the state require more density in single-family housing zones as well as making it harder for cities to block multifamily buildings in commercial zones was portrayed as a threat to local control.

Tens of millions of families, across red and blue states, struggle with rent and home prices. The reason is a longstanding housing shortage.

Larger apartment buildings are built with two staircases, but the requirement hurts efforts to improve access to affordable housing, especially for families.

The National Association of Realtors will pay $418 million in damages and will amend several rules that housing experts say will drive down housing costs.

Legislators from both sides of the political divide are working to add duplexes and apartments to single-family neighborhoods.

A bill authored by Rep. Esther Agbaje, DFL-Minneapolis, would prevent companies from purchasing and renting out single-family homes en masse.

The push from an affluent community in South Carolina to kill a plan for 60 subsidized apartments brought into public view how hard it is to give low-income families access to opportunity-rich neighborhoods.

The court case could represent a defining moment for Massachusetts’ most ambitious
housing law in decades.

A bipartisan group of legislators want to relax local zoning rules that block apartments from being built in many Minnesota cities.

The expectation of easy and free parking is partly behind the country’s housing shortage, putting more pressure on state and local leaders to rethink the ubiquitous parking infrastructure.