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 […]

HOME Line’s statewide tenant hotline remained historically busy in May. Prior to this year our busiest May was in 2019 when we had 1,317 client interactions (calls or emails).  This year we’ve had 1,604 new client interactions. When including follow-up client interactions, last month HOME Line had 2,807 client interactions with tenants, a 63% increase […]

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. […]