Housing Solutions: No "One Size Fits All"
2 Nov 2018
It's a wide-ranging plan to meet Minnesota's housing needs.
Governor Mark Dayton unveiled a task force report that calls for construction of 300,000 homes in Minnesota by the year 2030.
The report also focuses on preserving existing homes and keeping them affordable and assisting those at risk of eviction and recommends a public-private partnership to monitor the state's housing market.
While the task force recommendations represent a broad approach to addressing Minnesota's housing crisis, there's no "one size fits all" plan to solve the problem.
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Real estate professionals offer consumers advice on first-time buying programs and insights into market conditions
Affordability is at an all-time low for starter homes, and it’s making things tough for prospective first-time homebuyers to cross over from renting to owning.
A recent news story from Bloomberg claimed starter homes are pricier than...
Heather Cassell knows it’s cheaper to buy something that’s used.
“Pretty much everything I have is used,” said Cassell, 39, a single mother of three boys. “I don’t see why I would buy anything new. It’s a lot less expensive.”
Her landlord has learned the same lesson. Cassell...
It just isn’t that complicated.
Housing costs more than it used to for most of us, and our incomes haven’t kept up.
That’s the full explanation of what’s meant by the term affordable housing crisis.
Maybe this seems obvious to you. But through a summer of interviews...
