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VISTA Member Harnesses Skill, Passion to Lead Creation of Duluth Tenants Union Zine

April 8, 2025 by HOME Line Organizing Staff Leave a Comment

Shi is serving with TakeAction Minnesota Education Fund as a tenant organizer with the Duluth Tenants Union. Since the union’s launch in October 2024, they’ve seen an increase in membership and have been able to help multiple Duluth residents get repairs. Last month, to better connect with Duluth tenants the union released The Pack Post, […]

Filed Under: Americorps VISTA, Newsletter

First Quarter Contacts Increased in 8 of Top 10 Categories

April 8, 2025 by Mike Vraa Leave a Comment

We’ve finished the first quarter of 2025, and the number of calls and emails are up on the hotline. For new contacts, we’re up 8% over 2024 and for total contacts (new and follow-up), we’ve seen a 9% increase over last-year’s total. Here are the top 10 reasons for contacts  in the first quarter of […]

Filed Under: Newsletter, Tenant Hotline

Recording of 4/23/2025 HOME Line Tenant/Landlord Webinar: Rental Housing Market Analysis with HousingLink

March 19, 2025 by Rachael Sterling Leave a Comment

On April 23rd 2025, HOME Line hosted a Tenant/Landlord law webinar about Minnesota’s rental market. We were joined by HousingLink Research Manager Dan Hylton who provided an overview of what trends have been impacting the Twin Cities rental housing market. HOME Line has been hosting regular tenant/landlord legal webinars since mid-April 2020, initially about COVID-19 […]

Filed Under: Webinars

Contacts to Hotline increased 12% in February from 2024

March 11, 2025 by Mike Vraa Leave a Comment

Another big month for calls/emails to the tenant hotline with a 12% increase in new contacts over February 2024. Here are the top 10 contact reasons for February, compared to February, 2024. Contact Reason Number of Contacts Change from Feb. ’24 1. Evictions 447 + 30% 2. Repairs 442 + 20% 3. Break Lease 142 […]

Filed Under: Newsletter, Tenant Hotline

VISTA member uses creativity and innovation to drive accessible renter engagement

March 10, 2025 by HOME Line Organizing Staff Leave a Comment

Savannah, a first-year VISTA member of HOME Line’s tenant organizer cohort, has been hard at work finding ways to conduct accessible outreach to the renters of West St. Paul. Savannah is serving as the Healthy Housing Organizer with the city of West St. Paul. Her VISTA position resulted from city council’s desire to address the […]

Filed Under: Americorps VISTA, Newsletter

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