In 2014, HJC co-authored a report titled “The Space Between,” emphasizing the need for policymakers to pay more attention to the part of the affordable housing sector most low income households rely upon—unsubsidized but still affordable rental housing, or...
HJC’s work with Crossroads tenants has been featured in the TPT documentary Sold Out: Affordable Housing At Risk. Affordable housing is under constant threat from changing economic forces and urban development that break up vital communities. Low-income...
In 2016, the Housing Justice Center (HJC), together with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) and Becker Consulting, completed a study on policies which metro cities can, and should, adopt in order to reduce the cost of...
Like many other regions around the country, the Twin Cities has seen a debate for years on where best to place new affordable housing resources, in low income communities where the greatest numbers of needy households reside, or in higher income suburban areas, often...
When the Metropolitan Council committed to adopting the Region’s first Housing Policy Plan in 30 years, housing advocates seized on the opportunity the Plan provided to strengthen region-wide housing efforts. HPP and other housing advocates had long argued that...
Prior to the housing crash in 2008, HPP promoted Inclusionary Zoning, also called inclusionary Housing, as a promising policy tool to accomplish two goals gaining more affordable units beyond the limits of public funding, and creating more mixed income housing. IZ,...
