Evictions, regardless of outcome, can limit a renter’s available housing options. While the number of evictions in Minnesota has decreased slightly over the last few years, approximately 16,000 evictions were still filed in 2017. An eviction action can lead to the short term disruption of a household, including a forced unplanned move. It can also […]
HOME Line Welcomes new Executive Director
HOME Line is excited to announce that Eric Hauge, HOME Line’s Director of Public Policy and Organizing will be taking over as Executive Director on May 1, 2018. Eric is well known in the housing advocacy community and has worked tirelessly at the organization for the past 14 years, first as an Americorps VISTA volunteer, then […]
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 […]
CRP forms for Renters Credit were due to tenants on 1/31/18
The Minnesota renter’s credit/refund is a state property tax refund for tenants. This refund assists renters with the tax burden they pay directly to their landlord because of the property taxes imposed on rental housing. Landlords are required to provide Certificate Rent Paid (CRP) forms to tenants no later than January 31, 2018. If you rented at any point […]
MN Supreme Court Gives Cities Right to Inspect
Written By:Paul Birnberg and Mike Vraa Golden Valley, like many MN cities, wants to have the power to inspect every rental unit in the city on a regular basis (annually or once every two or three years). Why? The inspector wants to make sure every landlord is keeping up on repairs. Without inspections some repairs […]
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