HOME Line’s move toward a shared leadership model began with an identified need for greater administrative capacity to ensure the organization could continue to fulfill its mission for years to come. HOME Line operates many successful programs to empower renters across the state, including a Tenant Hotline that provides free, confidential, & multilingual legal advice; […]
Summer is the tenant hotline’s busiest time. Here’s why, and how you can help.
Every summer, we see a spike in Security Deposit calls to the tenant hotline. Most landlords charge a full-months rent (or more) for a security deposit. The vast majority of our clients are, as defined by HUD, low income. The return of these deposits are a key part of making thousands of MN families budgets […]
Retired HOME Line attorney makes substantial contribution to HOME Line to advance public policy efforts
HOME Line’s staff & board are tremendously grateful to former HOME Line Senior Housing Attorney Paul Birnberg, who recently donated $120,000 to support a variety of HOME Line’s efforts in advocating that the Minnesota State Legislature (and local cities) enact critical tenant protection legislation—Just Cause eviction restrictions and protections against Source of Income discrimination (refusing […]
Are you a SPIRE Credit Union member? Get your donation to HOME Line matched!
This holiday season, SPIRE Credit Union will be matching up to $10,000 in donations made by SPIRE members who use NetGiver to give to charities supporting housing and hunger services between Giving Tuesday, November 28, and the end of the year. The holiday season is a time when many of us think of going home […]
Record Number of Calls Taken in September
This was the tenant hotline’s busiest September ever, with 1,661 new calls and 1,385 follow-up calls, for a total of 3,046 calls. Last September (the previous record) was only 2,563 calls. As of the end of September, the hotline has actually taken more total calls this year than we did in all of 2021. For […]
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