Housing

Many landlords take active role in St. Paul's Union Park neighborhood

By Karintha Lowe, TC Daily Planet

Photo by Charleston's TheDigitel's Photostream, published under Creative Commons license

Densely populated with rental properties, St. Paul's Union Park neighborhood is often home to clashes between homeowners, tenants, and landlords. Some landlords have taken an active role in the neighborhood, and many residents see the involvement as important in defusing tensions.

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Commercial use, then housing proposed for 201 Lowry NE in Minneapolis

By Margo Ashmore, Northeaster

Viewed from the back corner of the parking lot, the back of the former Little Jack’s property is in context; industrial buildings along Second Street, a former grain elevator on California Street. A few blocks away is the new Lowry Avenue Bridge. To the north, a vacant lot owned with the house next to it. Part of the parking lot is cleared, serving two smaller business buildings that are not included in the redevelopment. (Photos by Margo Ashmore)

Is there life after Little Jack’s?

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Minneapolis: Housing boom affects crime in Marcy-Holmes and Southeast Como

By Kelsey Shirriff, The Minnesota Daily

Two neighborhoods are starting to see the effects of a campus housing boom.

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How about a better state budget for housing?

By Colleen OConnor Toberman, Minnesota 2020

Anna is a resident in the shelter at which I work. Despite having disabilities, Anna volunteers at a thrift store, takes care of her health, and hopes to attend college next fall. Anna’s grown son is educated and working, despite his own mental disabilities. Anna’s greatest wish is to have a home where her son can visit her, and see her as an example of success. She doesn’t need the expensive “crisis care” that a shelter provides—she just needs a modest apartment she can afford on her limited income.

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OPINION | Residential downtowns missing some residents

By Agata Miszczyk, Minnesota 2020

After becoming deserted wastelands past 6pm, cities nationwide have embarked on a two-decade effort to revitalize downtowns. From coast to coast, projects aimed to spur both economic and social vitality in metropolitan area core's, with residential development as a driving force. A Brookings Institute study stated that “by definition, a downtown recovery means more residents.” The same Brookings study reported that from 1990 to 2000 the number of households living in downtown increased by 13 percent. This trend has continued in the last 12 years.

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Youth advocates take aim at homelessness, ask House committee to create fund for Homeless Youth Act

By Sarah Lemagie, Session Daily

Deaundre Dent (Photo by Andrew VonBank)

Deaundre Dent was 14 when he became homeless. He and his mom didn’t see eye to eye because of what he described as his own questionable decision-making, and he was kicked out of his home, he told state lawmakers.

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St. Paul Challenge: "Love the House. Hate the Neighborhood"

By John Tanur Badgley, TC Daily Planet

The  recently developed duplex rental house by the Greater Frogtown Development Corps at the intersection of University Ave. and Grotto St. (Photo by Tanur Badgley)

Wearing an oversized winter coat with his hood up and gloveless hands in his pockets Tim Goss stood on the front porch of the newly renovated house he calls home – for now.

“I love the house. Hate the neighborhood.”

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Governor Dayton's budget proposal, part four: Economic development, housing, assistance for low-income Minnesotans, veterans

By Caitlin Biegler, Minnesota Budget Bites

Governor Dayton’s budget seeks to put the brakes on more than a decade of budget deficits, gimmicks and deep cuts to services, and instead create a fairer tax system that invests in our future. We’ve talked about some of his plans to reach those goals in earlier blog posts, like health care reform, education and tax reform.

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Saint Paul's Union Park still coming to terms with student housing ordinance

By Karintha Lowe, TC Daily Planet

Student housing zoning map, from Saint Paul City Council's Student Zoning Study

Bordering the University of St.

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The demolition problem

By Jeff Skrenes, North by Northside

Last summer I was asked, as a Jordan resident, what I thought about a house at 2637 Emerson Avenue North. It was a vacant property on the MLS for a song, and the City of Minneapolis was contemplating acquisition for demolition. I maintained that the built form of the house was intact, that the interior wasn't beyond repair, and that the block already had four vacant lots and would not be improved with a fifth. My position as a resident was that this house should be purchased to keep it out of the hands of a slumlord, but that it should not be demolished.

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