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Housing Justice Center receives two year LSAC grant
A first time grantee of LSAC funding, HJC has received two years of support for our impact litigation to protect tenants and prevent displacement, support our efforts to expand the supply of affordable housing through effective use of public resources, and support...
read moreHJC Announces Leadership Transition
Margaret Kaplan The Housing Justice Center is pleased to announce that our new President is Margaret Kaplan. Margaret took the helm of HJC July 1st and will help lead the organization as it celebrates 20 years of successful legal and policy advocacy for the right to...
read moreHJC preserves affordable units in Willmar
Beginning in 2005, the for-profit owner of the Cardinals Apartments in Willmar, seven separate projects under the RD Section 515 program, sought to take the properties out of the federal program by engaging in an illegal end run around the prepayment process...
read moreHJC advocacy for Inclusionary Housing policies paying off
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 buildings.
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