Housing

Alliance wants more U-area homeowners

By Anna Ewart, Minnesota Daily
The community hopes home-ownership will make the neighborhood a better place to live.

Rental properties vastly outnumber owner-occupied homes in neighborhoods around the University, but some people

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4,000 foreclosures in Minneapolis—what is being done to help people?

By Dennis Geisinger, Southside Pride
Ward 2 Council Member Gary Schiff says the foreclosure crisis causes “damage to our city [that] is far greater than the crack epidemic.”

“This is the biggest challenge facing the City of Minneapoli

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Pawlenty's veto of Foreclosure Deferment Bill is based on 'threat of class warfare'

By Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Monitor

Home in foreclosure in south Minneapolis. (Photo by James Sanna)

In a move that political analysts say could hurt Tim Pawlenty's VP chances, the governor vetoed the Foreclosure Deferment Bill on Thursday.MORE »

Homeless no more

By Mary Thoemke, TC Daily Planet

Two years ago Nichole Shaver was living in a homeless shelter in Saint Paul. She visited Project Homeless Connect where made the connection to access the resources she needed to find a job and safe housing for her family. (Photo by Mary Thoemke)

All her life, 25-year-old Nichole Shaver has considered herself a survivor. Her angry, abusive parents were also survivors, as a result of the circumstances of their own past lives.MORE »

Neighborhood watch: mortgage fraud, copper theft, and now house stealing?

By Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Monitor
In late March, the FBI warned of the newest form of identity theft: house stealing. The crime often works like this: A group or an individual finds a vacant home. They look up the deed information.MORE »

Pawlenty accused of “class warfare”

By James Sanna, TC Daily Planet

A foreclosed house for sale in Powderhorn, Minneapolis. A bill before the legislature could help some homeowners avoid this fate. (Photo by James Sanna)

As a bill to help homeowners in foreclosure reaches the desk of Governor Tim Pawlenty, many doubt the bill will make it into law.MORE »

What does green building mean for Minnesota?

By Erin Boeke Burke, Minnesota 2020
In the ever-evolving lexicon of the public good, one of the popular new acronyms is LEED.MORE »

Deluxe vacant-home tour: executives are the newest squatters

By Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Monitor
Sure, it's no secret that the Twin Cities metro area is suffering from a serious glut of homes for sale, most of which are seeing a price drop of 10 percent this year.MORE »

Northside Opportunities Home Tour shows possibilities for home ownership

By Anissa Hollingshead, Northside Opportunities Blog
Are you or someone you know thinking about buying a home? Have you always wanted to own your own home but didn't know how to make it happen? Have you considered living on the Northside?MORE »

Foreclosures and short sales make up nearly 30 percent of all Twin Cities home sales

By Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Monitor
A new report by the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors reveals that foreclosures and short sales accounted for 27.6 percent of all closed sales in the first quarter of 2008.MORE »
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