Housing
NEWS DAY | Minnesotans losing homes
A record 92,500 Minnesota homes are either in foreclosure or in danger of foreclosure, reports the Star Tribune.MORE »
zAmya Theater Project: Housed and homeless actors telling their own stories
This week the zAmya Theater Project's sixth season debuts in honor of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.MORE »
Help for homeless veterans
Veterans have long represented a sizable percentage of the homeless population - approximately one-fifth of all homeless people. New data from the Department of Veterans Affairs shows that while the number of homeless veterans seems to have decreased, the need for more proactive intervention and action grows.MORE »
NEWS DAY | Home prices down – and up
The Star Tribune reports that median home prices fell across the country during the third quarter of 2009, compared to the third quarter of 2008, despite rising home sales. The median price nationwide was $177,900, about 11 percent below 2008 third quarter prices.MORE »
NEWS DAY | We’re number one!
Forbes magazine has just named the Twin Cities the safest place to live, and Twin Cities home price increases lead the nation, with 3.2 percent in August, on top of 4.6 percent from June to July.MORE »
Front porch forecast: housing market set to tumble without intervention
After new data show foreclosures on the rise in Minnesota and nationwide, and the mortgage portfolio at many lenders to be weakening, it is time to revisit ways to prop up home values and help people stay in their homes. MORE »
Architect hopes to give new life to funeral home property
A vacant mortuary that's been on the brink of foreclosure for more than a year is now getting a new life as an office and community space.
Architect John Harriss owns the property at 3207 Central Ave. NE. His firm was originally hired to design a condo project at the site.
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NEWS DAY | Mortgage foreclosures dead ahead
In 2008, Minnesota saw a record 26,251 mortgages, and, while 2009 numbers are down from that record, we are not out of the woods yet,reports the Pioneer Press:MORE »
State, national moratoriums urged
The foreclosure crisis seems to have been pushed to the back of the national discussion of important issues, says U.S. Representative Keith Ellison. He thinks that needs to change.
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Local women fight loss of homes
Leslie Parks is mad about seeing longtime Minneapolis homeowners finding themselves out of their homes because of foreclosures. Unless her situation soon changes, however, she too will join the growing list. MORE »
