June 15, 2020 MPHA and City of Minneapolis Launch City’s Largest-ever Public Housing Renovation Towers built in 1961 will receive $25M in preservation and improvements LEARN MORE | DOWNLOAD A PDF OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT **Media Questions about the Elliots? Email media@mplspha.org or call 612-201-0390** MINNEAPOLIS—The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) has closed on the [...]
MPHA residents, staff, board members, and a Minneapolis City Council member have returned from a two-day fact-finding trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts. MPHA and CHA resident leaders meet in Cambridge Our hosts at The Cambridge Housing Authority have been early and comprehensive adopters of tools to convert and stabilize the federal [...]
Anyone familiar with our funding situation knows that we have many more needed "capital" projects than we have $$$ to do them. However, we continue to steadily move ahead with remodeling as our current budget permits, prioritizing based upon critical need and the length of time buildings have been awaiting work. In January, for example, [...]
NEWS RELEASE: October 18, 2017 The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA), Sustainable Resources Center, Inc. (SRC), and CenterPoint Energy are pleased to announce funding and a timeline for winter weatherization and energy efficiency improvements across all 28 buildings of the Glendale Townhomes. Glendale is a public housing development of 184 family townhomes in the Prospect Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. It was [...]
This narrated slideshow provides an introduction -- for public housing residents and the general public -- to MPHA's challenges, our opportunities, and our ultimate goal of preserving our public housing across the city. The presentation also covers the protections all public housing residents will have during this process. "Pathways to Preservation" (English) [...]
The Minneapolis-based McKnight Foundation has awarded $1 million to the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority to preserve and repair the city's aging public housing. Together with a $1 million investment from MPHA's own reserves, the grant will create a $2 million "Working Capital Fund." This fund will launch a long-term effort to assure MPHA's 6,000 apartments, [...]
Update: Since approving and publishing the Guiding Principles, MPHA has added a page of frequent Questions and Answers. The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) Board of Commissioners has unanimously adopted a set of Guiding Principles for Redevelopment and Capital Investments at MPHA. The document declares the values the state’s largest housing authority will follow [...]
