Anticipation is high for completion of the Central Corridor Light Rail Line running between Downtown Minneapolis and Downtown St. Paul, scheduled to open in 2014. While surrounding neighborhoods and local residents stand to benefit in many ways from this new...
Local governments play a critical role in setting the table for affordable housing development. This includes helping with site identification and acquisition, providing needed zoning and regulatory flexibility, and contributing to filling financial...
Inclusionary housing policies, also referred to as Inclusionary Zoning or Mixed-Income Housing, are local government policies where market-rate housing developers are either required or incented to include affordable units in market-rate apartment...
The former Twin Cities Army Ammunition plant site (TCAAP), located in Arden Hills, is slated for redevelopment. Following removal of all structures and environmental cleanup, this “blank slate” site is the size of all of downtown St. Paul—the largest...
Should funds to build affordable rental housing be targeted to “high opportunity” suburban neighborhoods or to low income inner city neighborhoods? This debate between advocates of mobility strategies versus in-place strategies has continued for...
Local governments play a key role in affordable housing development; they can block it altogether through exclusionary zoning or other practices; they can delay or discourage such developments or make them smaller or less affordable; or they can proactively facilitate...
