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Glendale

Infrastructure gap in Minneapolis public housing

By Scott Russell, TC Daily Planet
Walk around the 184-unit Glendale Townhome complex and you probably would not guess it needed an $11 million upgrade (that’s $59,000 per unit). The units don’t look that rundown.

The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) built them in 1952. Like many of the MPHA’s 1960s-era and early-1970s-era highrises, these townhomes need attention. Much of it is the kind you don’t see.MORE »

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