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Eric Hauge

Eric Hauge
Executive Director
erich@homelinemn.org
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Eric Hauge is the Executive Director of HOME Line. Eric joined HOME Line as an Americorps VISTA tenant organizer after obtaining his B.A. in Political Science and Peace Studies from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2003, later earning a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs in 2009.  His research at the Humphrey Institute involved analyzing Twin Cities metropolitan regional approaches to affordable housing planning and preservation.

At HOME Line, Eric has participated in numerous community organizing efforts to improve rental housing conditions throughout Minnesota including: long-term preservation of federally subsidized housing, repair of substandard housing conditions and emergency situations, and to prevent displacement from affordable private market rentals. He’s door-knocked thousands of rental unit doors throughout Minnesota and has contributed to original research focused around challenges to Section 8 voucher placement and the implications of evictions. Eric has advocated for stronger tenants rights and meaningful Fair Housing protections on local (city licensing, inspections, and anti-displacement protections), state (improvements to Chapter 504B and increases to the MN Renters Credit), and federal (HUD and USDA) levels.

Eric serves on the Board of Directors for the Housing Justice Center.

Commentaries by Eric:

  • Counterpoint: Having 15,000 evictions a year is no ‘glimmer of positive news’
    —Eric Hauge, Op-Ed, Star Tribune, 2/21/20
  • The Problem with Crime-Free Housing Ordinances
    —Eric Hauge, blog @ ACLU MN, 6/19/18
  • It’s time to stop discrimination against Section 8 renters
    —Eric Hauge and Lael Robertson, Community Voices column, MinnPost.com, 3/21/17
  • Cities and the state should do more to protect the tenants of irresponsible landlords
    —Eric Hauge, Community Voices column, MinnPost.com, 1/30/12
  • BAD LANDLORDS: ‘Truth in leasing’ would balance things out 
    —Eric Hauge, Letter to the Editor, Star Tribune, 10/24/11

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Bloomington, MN 55425

HOME Line is a tax-exempt non-profit organization under Internal Revenue Code § 501(c)(3).

Our EIN is 41-1941115.

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