On April 13, 2022, HOME Line hosted a webinar on Minnesota tenant/landlord law. In this webinar Jesse Anderson, the Deputy Director of Community Development with the city of Brooklyn Center, and Fadumo Mohamed, a housing organizer with ACER, gave an overview of the new Brooklyn Center Tenant Protections ordinance. They shared about how the ordinance came to […]
Tenant Hotline Statistics for February 2022
The Tenant Hotline keeps track of a lot of statistics from our callers in our database, which has advised over 277,000 total new calls since beginning in 1992. One of the key stats we keep are the issues that the tenants call us about. Here are the top 10 reasons why tenants contacted us in […]
Renters Share Why More Emergency Rental Assistance Is Needed
HOME Line’s main program is a free and confidential legal hotline for renters that has advised over 277,000 households since opening 30 years ago. Each month, in particular since the pandemic began, we’ve been taking around 1,500 calls per month. In January alone we had over a 50% increase in clients as compared to January […]
HOME Line celebrates 30 years of advocating with Minnesota renters
HOME Line’s tenant hotline first opened on January 13, 1992. Back then, it covered the suburbs of Hennepin County, as it was a program of a local community action agency. Now, 30 years later, HOME Line serves the entire state of Minnesota, offering timely, accurate, and confidential legal advice to any Minnesota renter free of […]
Seniors organize to fight eviction at Newport Assisted Living Facility
On October 21 of 2021, Zumbro House Inc. issued residents of a 200 unit assisted living facility (Wings of Newport, at 2300 Hastings Ave, Newport, MN) notices to vacate for November 30th. The senior residents, many disabled and dependent on services, say they have no time to find alternative housing as winter weather sets in. […]