Rochester’s Destination Medical Zone (DMZ) has been hailed as a groundbreaking public-private partnership to redevelop downtown Rochester and solidify the Mayo Clinic’s position as a world leader in healthcare. Extensive development is now picking up its pace,...
How landlords decide who gets to move into their buildings is a subject that has received surprisingly little scrutiny. Until recently. Two years ago, HJC and partner organizations launched an extensive research project after learning how much the standards for making...
Working with HOME Line, HJC discovered that a prominent Twin Cities developer is charging tenants too much rent in an affordable tax credit building. Under the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program (LIHTC), developers build affordable apartment buildings with the aid...
In deciding who to accept as new tenants, landlords typically use four kinds of screening criteria: previous rental history (including evictions), previous criminal history, credit scores, and whether the applicant meets a minimum income test. In the...
Across the country, many privately owned HUD-financed affordable apartment complexes include partial or 100% project-based Section 8 contracts which provide rent subsidies for the lowest income tenants. When those Section 8 contracts come up for renewal,...
There are few things more heartbreaking than when a family waits for years to get a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) but then has to give it up when they can’t find a landlord willing to accept a voucher. This is also a shame because Section 8...
