Edina Neighbors for Affordable Housing

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.

Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are on the rise.

Lilo, a 4-year-old German shepherd-Great Pyrenees mix, was found wandering inChattanooga, Tennessee, alone. Her family was homeless. The shortage of pet-friendly shelters and affordable housing presents a challenge to those seeking to reunite the family with their beloved pet.

A national housing crunch is spurring governors around the country to venture into debates that typically consume local officials: regulating where new housing can go and figuring out how to entice developers to build more of it.

Empty office space could be turned into housing.

Richfield and Bllomington are looking at zoning changes to improve the affordability of homes.

This article allows the reader to zero in on graphics showing neighborhood-by neighborhood climate impact. Higher density housing is associated with less climate impact.

THe Minnesota Housing board of directors approved funding selections of $165.5 million to create and preserve 2,156 homes, apartments and manufactured home community lots.