Corcoran housing funds available

By Staff, Corcoran News

Revolving Loan: For exterior, energy, and safety/security improvements. No income limits. Amount: $2,000 and $10,000; 4% interest.

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House passes bill to further protect tenants from eviction

By Susan Hegarty, Session Daily

When a landlord knows that a property’s contract for deed is being cancelled or that the mortgage is entering a foreclosure sale, the landlord is required to notify the tenants of the property. However there is no penalty for not doing so.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Success in education begins with housing: Support Homes for All!

By Chad Schwitters, Community Voices

School success is inextricably linked with housing stability. In 2011-12, over 11,000 children in Minnesota public schools were identified as homeless or highly mobile1.

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Fixing up houses

By Teresa Boardman, Teresa Boardman on TCDP

The Minneapolis Saint Paul Home Tour is this weekend. A great opportunity to see home renovations. I plan to visit a couple homes on 4th street on St. Paul's East side. They were originally part of the "4th street preservation program". Maybe they still are part of the program. At any rate they are owned by HRA which is a department of the city of St Paul.

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Plumbers' annual 'Water's Off' community service day helps 115 homeowners with plumbing repairs

By Staff, Minneapolis Labor Review

Saturday, April 6 was a day of community service for 141 volunteers from Minneapolis Plumbers Local 15, St. Paul Plumbers Local 34 and Rochester Plumbers Local 6. Altogether, the Plumbers’ annual “The Water’s Off” day of service fixed plumbing problems for 115 elderly, disabled, and low-income homeowners.

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Students protest Wells Fargo on campus, occupy Macalester president's office

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet

On Tuesday, April 23, Macalester students occupied President Brian Rosenberg's office, protesting the college's decision not to cut ties to Wells Fargo.

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Youth sleep outside on coldest night of April, advocate for help for homeless

By Lauretta Dawolo Towns, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Lauretta Dawolo Towns.

Thirteen-year-old Collin Robinson has a personal connection to homelessness.

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Dayton's Bluff residences featured in Minneapolis/St. Paul Home Tour, April 27-28, and Vacant Homes Tour, May 5

By Karin DuPaul, Dayton's Bluff Forum

The annual Minneapolis and St. Paul Home Tour and Dayton’s Bluff Neighborhood Home Tour will be held on Saturday, April 27, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Sunday, April 28, from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. During the home tour, residents in both Minneapolis and St. Paul open their homes to the public to showcase city living.

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MN VIDEOS | 268 teens sleep outside, act for homeless youth

By Staff, Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative

On record cold night in April, they're sleeping in boxes, listening to formerly homeless people share stories and advocating to fund the Homeless Youth Act in Minnesota with $8 million, not the current $239,000 -- or 13 cents per homeless youth per night.

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Minnesota's homeless are profiled in new Wilder findings

By Cynthia Boyd, MinnPost

Analysts at Wilder Research are slowly revealing the people behind the numbers of Minnesota’s homeless counted last fall. (Photo by Franco Folini/Creative Commons)

Like peeling the skin off an onion, analysts at Wilder Research are slowly revealing the people behind the numbers of Minnesota’s homeless counted last fall. They’re digging deeper into the data.

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