Press Release: Statewide rule change protects thousands of tenants from harmful rent increase practices and arbitrary evictions FOR RELEASE 1/15/2020For more information contact:Tenant: Pamela Cutting, Legends of Columbia Heights: 612-859-3002Tenant: Judith Kroening, Legends of Silver Lake Village: 612-789-9104Tenant: Pam MacDonald, River North Apartments: 651-271-8417Margaret Kaplan, President, Housing Justice Center: 612-600-4028Ivory Taylor, Lead Tenant Organizer, HOME […]
Sign-on to support Minneapolis tenant protection ordinances
UPDATE 11:20am 8/28/19: WE’VE SENT THIS FINAL VERSION OF THE SIGN-ON LETTER TO THE COUNCIL PRIOR TO THEIR 8/28 1:30pm COMMITTEE PUBLIC HEARING. IF ADDITIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS SIGN-ON BETWEEN NOW AND WHEN THE FULL COUNCIL CONSIDERS THE POLICIES, WE’LL ADD AND RE-SEND AGAIN. Click here to sign-on to the letter as an individual or […]
The Problem with Crime-Free Housing Ordinances
The Problem with Crime-Free Housing Ordinances (cross-posted from ACLU-MN) As a Minnesota-based statewide tenant rights organization that advises roughly 15,000 renter households annually, our organization has witnessed numerous Minnesota cities adopting rental housing disorderly conduct, nuisance, and/or crime-free ordinances (hereafter abbreviated CFOs) over the past 20 years. In general these types of ordinances provide cities the ability […]
Minneapolis and St. Paul Section 8 Reports
HOME Line’s tenant advocates frequently hear from renters who have difficulty finding, securing, and maintaining descent, safe, affordable housing. In particular, we often hear from tenants who have rental housing subsides such as Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers who are unable to locate a housing unit where the landlord will accept the voucher. For 15 […]
When is my landlord required to turn the heat on?
PLEASE NOTE: As of January 1, 2024, there is now a statewide minimum heat requirement in Minnesota tenant/landlord law: MN Statute 504B.161 Subd. 1 (a) (5). This law requires landlords to “supply or furnish heat at a minimum temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit from October 1 through April 30, unless a utility company requires and […]
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