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 [...]
This month, MPHA officials joined city, state, and nonprofit partners at the grand opening of The Louis, 70 units of affordable family housing built by Aeon in Prospect Park. With MPHA’s $3 million, 20-year commitment of project-based vouchers (PBVs), 10 apartments at The Louis will serve families below 30 percent of area median income. PBVs [...]
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 [...]
On September 26, MPHA joined Mayor Jacob Frey, Council Member Cameron Gordon, Minnesota Housing, Metropolitan Council, Hennepin County Government, U.S. Bank, Prospect Park Association and supporters for the groundbreaking of Aeon's newest development, The Louis. Aeon, a nonprofit affordable housing developer, is building 70 new tax-credit, affordable homes in the Prospect Park neighborhood. MPHA has [...]
With our partners from all levels of government, MPHA broke ground on the first new public housing built in Minneapolis since 2010: the Minnehaha Townhomes. When they open in 2019, these 16 townhomes will be dedicated to families experiencing persistent homelessness. The four buildings will revitalize this long-vacant site, donated by the City of Minneapolis. [...]
MPHA was excited to join lead partners Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative and Better Futures Minnesota to turn some dirt and kick off construction of Great River Landing. From the Beacon web site: Great River Landing [supports] stability for people committed to positive change and recovering from the traumas of unemployment, homelessness and incarceration... [It] will [...]
The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) is pleased to announce $1.57 million dollars in proposed funding from the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (MHFA) to enable the construction of Minnehaha Townhomes. The 16-unit townhome development will provide permanent housing for families exiting Hennepin County homeless shelters. The MHFA contribution would be by far the largest [...]
