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Browsing by Subject "affordable housing"

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    The Community Land Trust Model: Toward Best Practices for Promoting, Sustaining, and Growing
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Clowdus, Gabrielle
    This project was completed as part of a year-long partnership between Carver County and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). The Carver County Community Development Agency (CDA) administers the Carver County Community Land Trust to provide affordable homeownership options. The CDA received a grant to develop four land-trust units in the City of Waconia, and hopes to expand the land-trust program to other cities in Carver County. However, the CDA has faced opposition in the past from city elected officials. The goal of this project was to explore how the CDA can creatively promote community land trusts to resistant or skeptical elected officials and residents in cities throughout Carver County. In collaboration with project lead Brenda Lano from the Carver County CDA, a Ph.D. student in PA 5261: Housing Policy, identified policies, marketing strategies, and outreach tools successfully used by other land trusts to promote affordable housing goals. A final report from the project is available.
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    Creating a Community Land Trust in Scott County
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2019) Fitzgerald, Cassie; Jenkins, Gwendolyn
    This project was completed as part of a year-long partnership between Scott County and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). The goal of this project was to provide information and recommendations to the county in advance of its launching of a Community Land Trust (CLT) program in 2019. Scott County project lead Linda Janovsky collaborated with students in Dr. Edward Goetz’ course, PA 5261, to research best practices for CLT programs and interview staff currently working with the Carver County CDA, which has operated a CLT program since 2011. A final student report from the project is available.
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    Deeply Affordable Housing in the Twin Cities Metro: Who produces it, where, and how?
    (2024-05-01) Abdullahi, Abdullahi; Koch, James; Maxwell, Harrison; McEnery, Griffin
    Despite a vibrant affordable housing industry in the seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area, little research has focused specifically on the challenges in developing deeply affordable housing. This capstone project shines light on the local landscape of deeply affordable housing, through data analysis, mapping, and stakeholder engagement. Over the past decade, deeply affordable housing development in the Twin Cities metro has been concentrated in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and supply trails far behind demand. Amid a decades-long disinvestment in public housing at the federal level, non-profit developers are overwhelmingly responsible for providing deeply affordable housing. These developers operate on razor-thin margins and rely heavily upon subsidies from all levels of government, including tax credits, project based vouchers, tax increment financing, and various loans and grants. Currently available subsidy is highly competitive and falls short of adequately supporting both new developments with deeply affordable units and preserving already existing deeply affordable units. Further, as construction and operating costs rise and interest rates remain elevated, the subsidy available is stretched thinner still. With little hope for significant investment at the federal level, public entities at all levels of government in the state can enact policy interventions to increase development, which could include state sponsored vouchers, a robust state housing tax credit, inclusionary zoning, and more. To address concerns over the need for sustained investment in housing, a statewide constitutional amendment has been proposed at the legislature. This could provide needed and ongoing funding to meet the metro-wide demand for deeply affordable housing.
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    Framework for Measuring Sustainable Regional Development for the Twin Cities Region. Final Report.
    (Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota., 2010) Center for Urban and Regional Affairs; Center for Transportation Studies
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    Healthy and Equitable Development: Trends and Possibilities in the Suburbs
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2017-04) Wardoku, Maria; Brown, Peter Hendee; Greco, Mike; Rockwell, Sam
    What prevents Minnesota communities from building healthier, more equitable developments? In this report, researchers share the thoughts of community members, elected officials, city staff, and developers in first-ring suburbs of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul on problems and opportunities around affordable housing and active transportation. Their experiences offer insights into the challenges and barriers that first-ring suburbs face, including community opposition to active transportation infrastructure and new developments, including market rate and affordable housing; lack of tools for preserving unsubsidized affordable housing and building mixed-income housing; thinking only in terms of affordable housing, not affordable living; limited funding for affordable housing; meeting the needs and desires of residents who are currently car-dependent while working towards becoming more walkable and bikeable; and retrofitting streets with sidewalks—and deciding who will pay for and maintain them. Although many of these problems may seem intractable, there are ways to move forward. In this report, cities, developers, and other stakeholders will find suggestions for overcoming obstacles to healthier, more equitable development in the suburbs.
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    Housing Hurdles Carver County: Addressing Barriers to Development of Affordable Housing
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Martin, Karina; Schuettler, Karl; Kramer, Jacquelyn
    This project was completed as part of a year-long partnership between Carver County and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). Carver County contracted with Maxfield Research to complete a comprehensive housing needs assessment, which assessed the market supply for senior housing, workforce housing, and housing for homeless populations. Although Maxfield identified a clear need for affordable housing throughout the county, many market and regulatory barriers make it difficult to develop such housing. The goal of this project was to identifying strategies to assist in the development and preservation of affordable housing. In collaboration with project leads Brenda Lano and Allison Streich from the Carver County CDA, a team of students in PA 5261: Housing Policy, identified regulatory tools and policy choices, both traditional and unconventional, that can create and preserve affordable housing in Carver County. The students' final report from the project is available.
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    Housing Hurdles: Strategies for Combating Public Opposition to Affordable Housing in Carver County
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Mercil, Trevor; Reddi, Ravi
    This project was completed as part of a year-long partnership between Carver County and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). Carver County contracted with Maxfield Research to complete a comprehensive housing needs assessment, which assessed the market supply for senior housing, workforce housing, and housing for homeless populations. Although Maxfield identified a clear need for affordable housing throughout the county, many residents and public officials are opposed to affordable housing. The goal of this project was to identifying strategies to address affordable housing opposition and promote policies to develop and preserve affordable housing. In collaboration with project leads Brenda Lano and Allison Streich from the Carver County CDA, a team of students in PA 5261: Housing Policy, identified strategies and gathered evidence to dispel affordable housing myths and increase support for development of such housing. The students' final report from the project is available.
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    Long Term Affordability for LIHTC Properties in Minnesota
    (Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), 2021-08) Anderson, Emily
    The purpose of this report is to compile and analyze the nature and effects of the end of affordability restrictions of 4% and 9% low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC) in Minnesota. Policy options for continued affordability in properties that had used low-income tax credits will be examined to determine their viability in the state of Minnesota. The report will cover both Year 15 LIHTC exits and the traditional Year 30 completion of program obligations and identify properties nearing these critical time points where affordability could be lost. These identified properties can be targeted for use of policy alternatives or to identify communities that will soon be experiencing the loss of affordable housing units. While there is the potential for a large exodus from the program for LIHTC properties in Minnesota, further research is needed to determine the exact amount given other extenuating circumstances that affect the financing of affordable housing properties.
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    North End Rental Census.
    (2000) Pazandak, Sarah
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    Preservation or Redevelopment: Options, Conditions, and Risks Facing Mobile Home Parks in Anchorage, Alaska, and the Case for Affordable Housing
    (Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 2009-07-24) Robinson, Tyler
    According to the Municipal Assessor’s Office, 5% of Anchorage’s housing units, or 4,700 units, are mobile homes. Mobile homes represent an important affordable housing resource in the community; however, market forces and aging infrastructure in older parks have resulted in numerous closures that have eliminated at least 535 lots in the past six years. Units are often more than forty years old, and unable to be moved without incurring significant damage. Evicted tenants of those parks can lose their lifetime housing investment in a single notice, a result of the tenuous scenario of owning a home but having no control over the land on which the home sits. Public investment in mobile homes, through housing grant and rehab programs, has too often been directed to substandard mobile homes in leasehold communities. While these programs address health and safety issues, they do little to improve the overall quality of housing stock, much less contribute to asset building potential that comes from traditional homeownership investment. The Municipality of Anchorage would like to better understand the existing conditions of its mobile home parks, as well as the condition of manufactured homes within those parks. Some parks, based on zoning, condition, size, and location, may be viable neighborhoods that should be preserved as long-term housing. Park preservation examples from around the country, through conversion to cooperatively-owned or land trust models, have demonstrated the benefits of helping residents achieve safe, secure, and asset building potential in housing. A cooperatively owned park would also provide an opportunity for public grant programs to invest in new housing units for low- and moderate-income households, in a location in which long-term land control has been secured. Alternatively, given that mobile homes in Anchorage are one of the most affordable forms of housing, consideration should be made to enact inclusionary zoning policies on mobile home park land; in other words, when the parks themselves are redeveloped, incentives and requirements should be considered so that affordable housing is developed once the old “trailers” are vacated. This paper examines the number and condition of Anchorage mobile home parks, and creates an index identifying those parks most at risk for closure. It examines the regulatory and market forces that serve as impediments to park preservation. Utilizing lessons learned from other parts of the country, the paper examines the tools, resources, and strategies for preserving and improving parks. Finally, a general discussion of inclusionary housing is included in order to examine redevelopment alternatives that preserve the units of affordable housing, if not the mobile homes themselves.
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    Reaney Feasibility Study.
    (2002) Berglund, Nina; Chatfield, Nathan; Johnson, Andy; Marohn, Chuck; Martin, Marcus; Millet, Eduardo