This year, MPHA invested more than $4.3 million to repair its portfolio of nearly 800 deeply affordable family homes. Specifically, the agency completed major exterior enveloping renovations at 65 homes and “deep turns” at 35 more. With 100 newly renovated homes, MPHA is better equipped to serve families for generations to come.

This year’s repair work was funded both by MPHA sources and a direct one-time cash grant of $5 million as a part of the state legislature’s 2023 billion-dollar housing budget. This work follows a nearly $5 million repair effort in 2024 as the agency works to secure and deploy the funding to repair its entire family housing portfolio.

For the 65 homes receiving exterior enveloping renovations, work included replacing roofs, soffit/fascia and gutters, drafty windows, and/or outdated siding. For the 35 “deep turns,” work includes kitchen and bath renovations, furnace and water heater replacements, and repairing electrical, plumbing, and mechanical systems. Because “deep turn” work occurs when one family moves out and before the next family moves in, more cosmetic repairs like floor refinishing or replacement, replacing doors and trim, and painting walls is done at this time as well. This year, the agency is completing an average of four to five “deep turns” a month.

Restoring these homes comes at a critical time for the agency. Last year, MPHA opened its family housing waitlist for five days—the first time in three years—and received more than 3,300 applications. With nearly 4,000 families currently on the agency’s family housing waitlist, the need for this type of housing is significant. In addition to pursuing the necessary resources to preserve its portfolio of nearly 800 deeply affordable family homes, MPHA continues to explore opportunities to add new family homes with larger bedroom counts, including the possibility of adding additional family homes as a part of any future Glendale redevelopment and construction project.

In the last two years, MPHA has fully deployed  a one-time $1.3 million grant from Minnesota Housing and nearly all of a $3.7 million investment from the City of Minneapolis, while spending an estimated $2.2 million of the $5 million direct appropriation from the 2023 state legislative session—in addition to millions from MPHA sources repairing its family housing portfolio.

Looking ahead, MPHA intends to deploy the remaining $2.8 million of the legislative grant on exterior enveloping renovations at five homes, extensive structural and/or foundation repairs at two homes, roughly 20 additional “deep turns,” and radon testing and mitigation throughout the portfolio. This remaining grant spending and construction work is anticipated to be completed in the spring of 2026.