Bob CollinsResidents of a 30-unit apartment complex are being thrown out because too many police calls came from residents there. Not all residents, probably, but everyone goes because the city has yanked the rental permit of the building owner. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: housing
If you’ve tried to buy a home in the Twin Cities, you know the impossible task for mere mortals. If you can find a half-way decent house to buy, the price is through the roof. Read more →
Housing prices nationally have hit record highs, although that’s not the case in Minneapolis, one of the 20 cities making up the index.
The average national home price is now 0.1% above the June 2006 price, although the index does not account for inflation. Read more →
There aren’t many places in Minnesota where you can score a 30-room, 8,726-square-foot mansion with seven bedrooms and four bathrooms for a little over $150,000. But if you want to live in Crookston, this baby can be yours. Read more →
‘Almost all of the places you are seeing problems between the police the community are very segregated. You are not seeing these problems as often in more integrated places,’ Orfield tells The Atlantic.
It’s not as if we weren’t warned. Read more →
MPR News’ Matt Sepic reports today that home buyers are being squeezed in these parts because there aren’t enough home sellers. Land prices are too high so the homes that are being built may not be that affordable.
Maybe it’s just as well.
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Two-thirds of all home equity is owned by 55 and older, with a total value of about $8 trillion. They’re not giving it up.
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Here’s something you don’t hear every day. A neighbor applauding the tear-downs happening on her street.
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Who’s going to live in the McMansions the parents of millennials are building in the Twin Cities suburbs? Apparently, it won’t be the millennials.
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No matter what happens next, Jerold Young isn’t going to have a lot of money to live out his remaining years, but his Rochester, Minnesota friends are certainly looking out for the World War II vet who’s had some tough times.
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A philosophical debate that has been waged in fits and starts since people started buying, then tearing down, older homes in Edina and Minneapolis, and has flared again with last week’s announcement that Minneapolis would put a moratorium on teardowns in several neighborhoods. Read more →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has given a boost to cities who want to keep neighborhoods from being taken over by college students.
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The people who make money in the housing industry are inflating expectations. Again. Read more →
But Lake Elmo didn’t want to be like everyone else and today it finally won a battle against the Metropolitan Council’s order that it needs to get bigger. Or did it win? Read more →
As the housing crisis eases, have we learned anything? Read more →