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 […]
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 […]