In the past month HOME Line’s legal, organizing, and advocacy work has been featured in or helped to provide background details for a number of recent state and national media reports on important housing and tenant/landlord topics. These stories covered a range of topics from a detailed investigation of the phenomenon of “informal” or “extrajudicial” […]
Minnesota Supreme Court Recognizes a Common-Law Defense to Retaliatory Evictions
Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that residential “tenants have a common-law defense to landlord evictions in retaliation for tenant complaints about material violations by the landlord of state or local law, residential covenants, or the lease.” (Page 18). In simpler terms, the Court said that a landlord cannot file an eviction against their tenant […]
Groundbreaking Fair Housing Settlement in Crossroads at Penn Class Action Lawsuit
Press Release: Groundbreaking Fair Housing Settlement in Crossroads at Penn Class Action Lawsuit Update October 19, 2017: Today Judge Ann Montgomery signed the order granting a Motion for Preliminary Approval of the case (click for a copy). On September 29, 2017 a group of former Richfield, Minnesota residents, from the 698 unit apartment complex called […]
Sold Out: New documentary shares tenant stories, lifts up solutions to loss of affordable housing
With alarming frequency individuals, households and whole communities are being displaced as a result of a growing wave of real estate investments upscaling formerly affordable apartments found across the Twin Cities region. Tenants who formerly lived at Crossroads at Penn in Richfield, along with HOME Line and a coalition of affordable housing nonprofits worked with […]
Press Release: Richfield residents file federal class action lawsuit alleging discrimination by landlord
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: Tim Thompson Housing Justice Center Eric Hauge HOME Line Richfield residents file federal class action lawsuit alleging discrimination by landlord On Monday, February 2nd 2016, a group of 35 current and former tenants of the 698-unit Richfield rental complex Concierge Apartments (formerly Crossroads at Penn Apartments) filed a […]