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 […]
Minnesota Supreme Court Recognizes a Common-Law Defense to Retaliatory Evictions
Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that residential “tenants have a common-law defense to landlord evictions in retaliation for tenant complaints about material violations by the landlord of state or local law, residential covenants, or the lease.” (Page 18). In simpler terms, the Court said that a landlord cannot file an eviction against their tenant […]
HOME Line’s 2018 Annual Report
We’re excited to share our 2018 Annual Report that provides a brief overview of the advice, advocacy, organizing, and overall impact HOME Line provided for Minnesota renters last year. Highlights include: 13,240 renter households received free and confidential legal advice, most frequently helping tenants with repairs, security deposits, and evictions. 52 volunteers and interns provided 2,090 […]
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 […]
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