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...
At 700 units, the Crossroads Apartments in Richfield was the largest source of unsubsidized but deeply affordable rental housing in the Twin Cities. Crossroads has been home to many low income households of color, persons with disabilities, and tenants dependent on...
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,...
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...
“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...
