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Blandin grant aims to spur affordable housing in northern Minnesota

September 23, 2023 8:00 AM

By Dan Gunderson

A $1 million grant from the Blandin Foundation is intended to help communities around Grand Rapids and Leech Lake build affordable housing.

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Duluth office-to-apartment conversion sparks downtown revitalization hope

September 22, 2023 1:37 PM

A Duluth developer announced plans this week to convert a 50-year old downtown office building into apartments. It’s the first of what the city hopes will be several office-to-housing conversions in the next several years as Duluth works to revitalize its downtown post-pandemic.

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Minneapolis considers building second tiny-home village for homeless people

September 19, 2023 4:00 AM

On Monday, the 12 council members present at a budget meeting voted to take $1 million from the city’s contingency funds that could lead to additional state money for another such village near the recently cleared encampment.

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'Can’t trust them’: U students displaced by building delays testify to lawmakers

September 14, 2023 5:50 PM

More than 100 University of Minnesota students have signed leases and many have paid first months rent to move into the apartment by Aug. 27, but the building has delayed opening for a month.

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First Rondo descendent buys home using St. Paul's Inheritance Fund

September 14, 2023 4:00 AM

A young St. Paul man is the first person to buy a home using the city’s Inheritance Fund. The goal of the new program is to rebuild intergenerational wealth for the descendants of people in the historically Black Rondo neighborhood who lost their homes and businesses to Interstate 94 in the 1950s.

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Rochester eviction rates show no sign of slowing

September 8, 2023 4:00 AM

By Catharine Richert

Evictions in Olmsted County are moving faster than housing advocates expected this year. That's putting a strain on emergency services available to people facing eviction. The city is a microcosm of a trend playing out statewide.

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State shuts down South Minneapolis’ ‘Wall of Forgotten Natives’ encampment

August 25, 2023 3:15 PM

By Olivia Stevens

State officials forced about 100 people from a homeless encampment in Minneapolis’ East Phillips neighborhood Thursday.

A maintenance worker sweeps the street in front of a row of new homes in Fairfax, Va., on Aug. 22. Sales of new homes are taking off as current homeowners are reluctant to sell their houses, because they would face a higher mortgage for their next one.

These are 5 ways surging mortgage rates are reshaping the housing market

August 25, 2023 4:00 AM

By Scott Horsley

The housing market is showing a split: Sales of existing homes were down last month, but sales of newly built houses were up.

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Stearns County board rejects proposal to help property owners get rid of racial covenants

August 23, 2023 1:43 PM

By Kirsti Marohn

The proposal stemmed from research conducted last spring by students at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University, who uncovered dozens of discriminatory covenants in Stearns County. The measure failed after some board members seemed confused about what it would do, and questioned whether it’s needed.

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Duluth celebrates first 'cottage village' to provide mixed-income housing

August 23, 2023 11:14 AM

Fairmount Cottages takes advantage of a 2019 zoning change in Duluth that allows clusters of homes grouped together on a single parcel of land.