HOME Line’s statewide tenant hotline remained historically busy in April. Looking at our total volume of client interactions (new clients as well as follow-up interactions with previous clients—by phone and/or email), we’ve had 10,170 client interactions through April 30, a 71% increase over 2021, which turned out to be our busiest year ever to date. […]
“Your Voice, Your Story Matters” – Amrita Vijay Jain (HOME Line, Public Policy Intern)
“Your Voice, Your Story Matters” by Amrita Vijay Jain (HOME Line, Public Policy Intern) April 27, 2022: This week opened with legislators in the Minnesota House passing an important housing policy and spending bill (HF 4366) that aims to, amongst other things, reduce housing costs for tenants, provide tenant protections that can create more stable and […]
Recording of 4/14/22 Community Organizing Webinar: HOME LINE “Depot,” Your one-stop shop for organizing tools!
On Thursday April 14th, HOME Line held an online webinar where Kara Lallman, HOME Line’s Organizing Project Director provided take-away tools for Community Organizers and Tenant Advocates. Empowering renters means bringing the community and organizing tools together, but finding best practices and examples can be overwhelming. As the Director of the VISTA volunteer program and […]
Renters Testify Again For Emergency Rental Assistance
Renters Share Why More Emergency Rental Assistance Is Needed (Part 2) HOME Line’s main program is a free and confidential legal hotline for renters that has advised over 280,000 households since opening 30 years ago. Each month, in particular since the pandemic began, we’ve been taking around 1,500 calls per month. Many of these inquiries […]
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 […]