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Minnesota is in a housing shortage. Legislators are uniting to find a fix.
A bipartisan group of Minnesota legislators is planning to introduce a flurry of bills this session aimed at making housing more affordable.
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Home prices in this remote Minnesota county can rival the Twin Cities
Star Tribune | Aug. 2, 2025
Like the Twin Cities, Cook County is breaking sale price records this summer. [Read More]
Study: Rochester area needs 18,000 homes over the next decade
Star Tribune | July 25, 2025
The area created more than 2,000 single-family homes in the past five years, but demand keeps increasing. [Read more]
Minnesota is in a housing shortage. Legislators are unifying to find a fix.
Star Tribune | Jan. 27, 2025
A bipartisan group of Minnesota legislators is planning to introduce a flurry of bills this session aimed at making housing more affordable. From loosening local zoning rules that limit density to reforming homeowners associations and… [Read more]
Housing is too expensive. Here’s what the GOP and DFL want to do about it.
Minnesota Reformer | Jan. 22, 2025
Last year, a brand-new coalition of faith groups, housing developers, social justice advocates and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle united behind a set of wide-ranging policies designed to make housing in Minnesota more affordable by… [Read more]
In Rochester, locals fret over housing shortage, high rents and expected population boom
Star Tribune | Dec. 31, 2024
Developers say current applicants make too much money for apartments they promised to keep affordable… [Read more]
Where are all the starter homes?
MSP Magazine | Nov. 1, 2023
Despite desperate demand for affordable, smaller homes, Minnesota is missing the mark. So why are so few available? (Spoiler: It’s not because builders don’t want to build them.)… [Read More]
Looking for an affordable starter home in the Twin Cities area? Good luck
Star Tribune | March 10, 2023
Twin Cities area starter houses seem to have never been more expensive. Or elusive. Last year, sellers listed just 20,000 houses affordable to most first-time buyers… [Read More]
How Twin Cities housing rules keeps the metro segregated
Star Tribune | Aug. 7 , 2021
Liz Stroder has dreamed of owning a home since she was a teenager. Definitely a garden. Maybe some chickens. More than anything, the St. Louis Park apartment dweller wants to give her 14-year-old son the stability… [Read More]
Racial homeownership gap in the Twin Cities highest in the nation
Star Tribune | June 27, 2021
The racial homeownership gap in the Twin Cities is the highest in the nation and has only widened over the past two decades, especially in neighborhoods where… [Read More]
Why do Twin Cities homes cost so much? We went to find out
Pioneer Press | April 17, 2017
Mary Kay Curtis wrinkled her nose at the window. It wouldn’t go up. After three inches, it was just stuck. The salesman for the new Woodbury home she toured last fall explained that, no, it wasn’t broken. It would only open so far because of a state regulation… [Read More]
