In 2013, HPP co-authored a report entitled “The Space Between.” This report examined the supply of unsubsidized but still affordable rental housing in Minnesota, arguing that policymakers should focus more attention on this critical supply of rental...
Like most housing authorities running public housing programs, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) has to work very hard to make their funds stretch far enough to provide the quality public housing their tenants deserve, in light of chronic underfunding by...
For decades HUD has been frustrated that as it hands out millions in assistance to the nation’s metropolitan areas, it sees too little change in patterns of racial and economic segregation. To try to change this pattern, HUD has required local governments to...
“What happened to all the people who used to live here?” This is the question that St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman recently voiced as a question he hopes he never has to ask about the Central Corridor and the new LRT Line opening in June 2014. He was...
When Congress directs federal agencies to cut funding under federal programs, the ways those cuts are imposed can get highly complicated, and in some cases, also disastrous, unfair, and illegal. In one case, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) lost $2.8...
Minnesota housing policymakers have tended to focus, deservedly so, on how to preserve and expand the supply of subsidized rental housing. The fact is, however, nearly two thirds of low income Minnesota households rely on unsubsidized affordable apartments...
