Today, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Minneapolis City Council President Andrea Jenkins, MPHA Executive Director and CEO Abdi Warsame, and MPHA resident leaders announced a new, long-term funding agreement between MPHA and the City of Minneapolis ahead of Mayor Frey’s annual budget announcement next week. This new agreement proposes to send MPHA $5 million annually to [...]
Project-Based Vouchers (PBV) are among the most effective tools MPHA has to help build new and sustain deeply affordable housing across Minneapolis. In alignment with Minnesota Housing’s annual consolidated RFP deadline, MPHA recently awarded 126 PBVs to seven different housing developments across Minneapolis. Across the seven projects, a total of 454 new homes at various [...]
Today, leaders from the City of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), and the YMCA of the North were joined by MPHA leaders and families to announce the expansion of the Stable Homes Stable Schools (SHSS) program for the 2023-2024 school year. With a new infusion of more than $4 million from the City [...]
Yesterday, MPHA staff joined leaders from Ecumen, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and local officials to celebrate the grand opening of The Hillock, a 100-unit senior-designated affordable housing development in the Longfellow neighborhood. Eleven of the units are supported by MPHA’s Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) project-based vouchers, with MPHA providing federal housing [...]
Through all the major stages of his adult life, Berra Toka was able to count on a safe, stable affordable home provided by MPHA. From arriving in Minneapolis as an immigrant, to enrolling as a student, to later becoming a husband and father, MPHA supported Berra’s life journey at every turn. And in 2021, that [...]
The Glendale Townhomes have been home to approximately 2,000 families over the past seven decades. Built in 1952, the townhomes were built to serve low-income families. Over the years, the Glendale Townhomes have become a cultural corridor for many refugee families from Southeast Asia and East Africa. Nestled in Prospect Park, the site has become [...]
Over the past two years, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) has been working with the Harvard Kennedy School’s People Lab to study the barriers to landlord participation in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. With property owner participation in the HCV program falling nationwide in recent years, the study looks to provide MPHA with [...]
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is conducting a multi-year study tracking the long-term impacts of families living in “opportunity areas” with varying levels of housing mobility-related services in the Community Choice Demonstration (CCD). Together, MPHA and the Metropolitan Council's Housing and Redevelopment Authority (Metro HRA) are one of eight sites nationwide [...]
On Monday, the Minnesota Legislature wrapped up its legislative session, establishing the state’s biennial budget for the next two years. Included in the final billion-dollar housing budget (HF 2335) was a direct one-time cash grant of $5 million from the state’s surplus to help repair the agency’s portfolio of more than 700 deeply affordable family [...]
MINNEAPOLIS—Today, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) Board of Commissioners passed a resolution seeking approval for the agency to exercise its maximum levy authority allowable under state law in 2024, an amount equal to 0.0185% of the City of Minneapolis’ Estimated Market Value. In 2023, the max allowable levy amount would have generated an estimated [...]
