Disclaimer: manufactured home park pictured above is not the community mentioned in this post. This past winter, Housing Justice Center Community Organizer Teresa Garcia-Delcompare and attorney Shana Tomenes helped mobile home resident Anavela reach a settlement with...
Over the last few months, HOME Line VISTA Tenant Organizer Teresa Garcia-Delcompare has been working in conjunction with Pueblos de Lucha y Esperanza and Housing Justice Center to organize in her manufactured home park community. This past weekend, she combined...
The Lowry Grove Manufactured Home Park in St. Anthony Village, Minnesota, is something of a rarity. This 95 home community of mostly lower income residents, many of them Latino, is an example of very affordable housing without any public subsidy. It also happens to be...
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...
Fundamental fairness suggests that when government forces people out of their homes for redevelopment projects, people ought to be compensated. That was the impetus behind the federal Uniform Relocation Act (URA), and the Minnesota Uniform Relocation Act. In...
When residents of manufactured home parks scattered throughout Greater Minnesota encounter threats to their housing, they often turn to HPP for help. Residents of Northern Terrace MH Park in Ely found themselves faced with the closure of their park at Christmas...
