Community Development Director This position will provide strategic leadership, financial planning and marketing, and operational planning and leadership to MHP’s Community Development Team. Community Development department works directly with rural communities and organizations to achieve the community’s housing and development goals. Most of the work is…
Author: Jenny Jones
What You Need to Know: Tax Credit Webinar
MHP hosted a virtual learning opportunity on the new MN Affordable Housing Tax Credit (AHTC) on Thursday, July 14, 2022. This new housing tool invests $10 million annually to affordable and workforce housing. Passed in 2021, it will go into effect in 2023. It is the only new…
Housing Institute 8: Four Teams from SE MN to Address Housing Challenges in their Communities
On a windy Rochester day, Housing Institute 8 teams gathered to learn how to achieve more affordable housing in their community. MHP established the Housing Institute in 2010, bringing together housing leaders and stakeholders to share experiences and best practices to catalyze the development of affordable housing throughout the state.
Market Watch Issue #8: Mankato, Moorhead & St. Cloud
Across the state, growing ranks of renter households are facing an increasingly challenging housing market with rising rents and declining vacancy rates—a problem which has been exacerbated by the impacts of COVID-19. Current owners of unsubsidized rental properties lack the tools to preserve and improve aging properties necessary to maintain…
Job Posting: Community Development Associate
MHP seeks someone interested in and committed to affordable housing that wants to start at the ground level assisting our Community Development department. You’ll provide support for our team’s work of planning, coordinating, delivering and reporting on Community Development projects across the country. This is a…
Special Session Hopes for Housing
Minnesota is so close to legislative deal – let’s get all sides together to get the job done! As time (and the legislative session) passes, the needs for housing have only grown. Minnesota families need safe, stable housing to thrive Star Tribune on the possibility of…
Renter Snapshot Series: May 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated housing insecurity for millions of households, especially for low-income, Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) households. However, the solutions are not elusive—when given access to emergency rental assistance, the renters most in need experienced housing stability. Households of color have been more likely…
Emerging Developer Initiative for Northwest Minnesota
Dedicated to the professional support of new housing developers from rural communities & Native Nations MHP’s Emerging Developer Initiative (EDI) was created to support the emergence and professional development of new housing developers from rural communities and Native Nations in Northwest Minnesota. The only program of its kind in Minnesota’s…