Neal St. Anthony reported in his Sunday column in the Star Tribune that the NOAH Impact Fund will officially launch on Tuesday, June 6. The Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, which helps finance affordable housing for the swelling ranks of the working poor, will announce Tuesday a $25 million fund that is expected to acquire up…
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Article by Hank Long in Finance & Commerce. Last July when CommonBond Communities paid $16.3 million for the 112-unit Boulder Ridge apartments in Apple Valley, it marked the nonprofit housing provider’s entry into the market-rate multifamily category. The St. Paul-based organization — which owns and operates more than 100 properties offering affordable housing in Minnesota…
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It’s a scenario that plays out again and again, in every corner of The Corridor: a developer announces plans to create affordable housing units outside “those” neighborhoods where such units already are relatively plentiful, and neighbors start complaining. The torpedoing last month of a 45-unit, mixed-income housing complex along Edgewood Road in Cedar Rapids was…
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Gabriel Corbesia works as a security guard and recently graduated from Summit Academy near the top of his carpentry class. Corbesia, a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa who grew up in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis, has wrestled with alcoholism and homelessness. Today, he is a thankful, productive citizen…
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