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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, 17 studios, three one-bedroom, 12 two-bedroom, eight 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 [...]
Last week, the MPHA Board of Commissioners approved a new, five-year strategic plan to guide the agency’s work through 2027. This plan arrives on the heels of the agency’s previous strategic plan enduring through a tumultuous five years. From a global pandemic shuttering communities to an international reckoning on race and injustice igniting in Minneapolis, [...]
Today, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Minnesota Housing Commissioner Jennifer Ho, and Minneapolis City Councilmember Robin Wonsley joined MPHA staff and residents to celebrate the agency securing the final funding necessary to install fire suppression systems in all 42 agency high-rises. This includes a $2.4 million contribution from Minnesota Housing in 2021, a $2 million direct federal [...]
![A picture of Mary Vang, Regional Property Manger. An air quote reading: "[MPHA] housing was critical for my family because it provided us stability in our new country. Public housing made my family feel secure. Knowing there was always going to be a roof over our heads allowed my parents to work hard and save up enough money to buy their own home after only living in public housing for a few years."](https://mphaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/02-07-23-Mary-Vang-Employee-Profile.jpg)
