On Wednesday, MPHA staff will present research on the impact of a fully funded housing tax levy in the City of Minneapolis to the Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET). The agency estimates a fully funded levy would generate $12 million annually in new funding to help MPHA expand its public and deeply affordable [...]
In late March, MPHA completed a $10 million renovation of Hamilton Manor, a 220-unit senior-designated public housing high-rise in the Camden neighborhood. In close coordination with the building’s resident council, the agency worked to reduce resident disruptions with a construction schedule that sought to address needed upgrades to systems and apartments in a single, comprehensive [...]
Every year, Earth Day stands to draw attention to how the planet should be cared for. At MPHA, the focus on environmental sustainability is woven into much of the agency’s work. This includes renewable energy sources in its new developments, electrifying its maintenance operations where possible, supporting MPHA resident community gardens, and incorporating energy efficient [...]
As the largest public housing provider in the state and with a capital backlog of more than $210 million, MPHA has a lot of construction and renovation work to complete. For the most complex projects, MPHA routinely contracts with local construction companies to supplement the work of its own in-house team of skilled maintenance and [...]
Late last month, MPHA received a near-perfect 98.5 percent in the physical inspection segment of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) annual Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS). This marks the highest PHAS physical inspection scores in MPHA’s history and builds on the agency’s record of achieving “high performer” status with HUD, dating [...]
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, MPHA celebrates the women who make MPHA work every day. With more than half of all hires in the last year being women, MPHA is powered by strong, female leaders across all departments of the agency. Notably, 81 percent of MPHA property managers are women. The agency [...]
Late last year, MPHA awarded 26 project-based vouchers (PBVs) to Trellis as the company works to build 41 units of deeply affordable housing near 39th and Chicago in South Minneapolis—a block from George Floyd Square. The agency’s PBVs will help Trellis construct and operate the Calvary Apartments, two studio, four one-bedroom, 14 two-bedroom, four three-bedroom, [...]
Today, MPHA announced the appointment of Dominic Mitchell as the agency’s new Deputy Executive Director. Mitchell has spent nearly 15 years serving with the St. Paul Public Housing Agency (PHA), most recently as the Director of Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Programs. “Dominic brings both the technical skills and an energy to learn and contribute to [...]
On Monday, Minnesota State Senator Omar Fateh announced a new effort to send MPHA a one-time cash grant of $45 million from the state’s surplus to repair the agency’s portfolio of more than 700 deeply affordable family homes. This new legislation (SF 1899) would be the largest non-federal funding ever delivered to MPHA and would [...]
Every day, MPHA works to provide housing to nearly 26,000 people. The work to provide quality, well-managed units to some of Minneapolis’ most vulnerable residents can be an inspiring and enriching experience for the nearly 300 MPHA team members who carry out the agency’s critical work. But for one member of the team, the work [...]
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