The tenant hotline continues our streak of record month-over-month call volume.  This was our busiest August—we just had our busiest July, etc. all the way back to last October. In August, we took 2,008 new calls and 1,542 follow-up calls for a total of 3,550 total calls, all higher than our records from June of […]

Evictions are a confusing, traumatic, and stressful process for most tenants and having an eviction on record has a lasting negative impact on a tenant’s ability to find and maintain stable housing. In January 2019 HOME Line began proactively contacting renter households in the seven-county Twin Cities metro area that had evictions filed against them […]

In June 2021 the Minnesota Legislature passed a temporary law that slowly ended or “phased out” the statewide COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium restrictions that had been in place since March of 2020. (For more information on the mortoria and the phase out see HOME Line’s previous COVID-19/Eviction Moratorium webinar recordings). The last phase out restriction expired […]

Continuing our series of posts outlining how many Minnesota renters are contacting our free and confidential legal hotline, and about what topics, below is an overview of the first half of 2022. Previous 2022 month reviews are here: May, April, March, February. 2021 was the tenant hotline’s busiest year on record. However, we are on […]