New Coordinated Plan and Progress Towards Recovery Goals
Minnesota Foreclosure Partners Council
June 2011
The Minnesota Foreclosure Partners Council has released an updated Coordinated Plan and progress report highlighting efforts to address foreclosures and help families and communities succeed in the Twin Cities and the State of Minnesota.
Rethinking Housing Design Report
February 2011
In December 2010, community members and local leaders gathered to rethink affordable housing design over a two-day event featuring urban designer and former mayor Maurice Cox. Click here to view a summary report.
When Investors Buy Up The Neighborhood
May 2010
When Investors Buy Up the Neighborhood: Strategies to Prevent Investor Ownership from Causing Neighborhood Decline describes three dozen strategies communities can use to reclaim foreclosed properties, encourage positive reinvestment, and stabilize their neighborhoods. The study also details how many of these approaches are already at work in Minnesota and across the country.
Download the Full Report (PDF)
Download the Press Release (PDF)
Download the Community Presentation (PDF)
Download the Assessment Matrix (PDF)
Updated
Housing Counts: Measuring Affordable Housing Production and Preservation
in the Twin Cities (.pdf)
August 2009 - In spring 2003, the Family Housing Fund and HousingLink jointly
published "Housing Counts" so that stakeholders would be able to track
annual affordable housing progress using common data. The first report provided
a yearly accounting for 2002 and 2003 of affordable housing projects in Minneapolis
and St. Paul whose funding closed during the stated year. Beginning with the
2004 Housing Counts report, production and preservation information has been
added for the suburban metropolitan area as well.
Full
Report (.pdf)
2002
Housing Counts (.pdf)
2003
Housing Counts (.pdf)
2004
Housing Counts (.pdf)
2005
Housing Counts (.pdf)
2006
Housing Counts (.pdf)
2007
Housing Counts (.pdf)
2008
Housing Counts (.pdf)
Rethinking Housing: Designing and Building
Affordable, Sustainable Housing Throughout the Twin Cities Region
May 2009
Featuring keynote address by architect, designer, and educator Bill Morrish.
Click here to download
the full report (.pdf)
Click
here to view speaker’s PowerPoint (.pdf)
Click
here to view the workshop handouts (.pdf)
The Coordinated Plan to Address Foreclosures
March 2009
A publication highlighting efforts to address foreclosures and help families
and communities succeed in the Twin Cities and the State of Minnesota.
Click here
to download (.pdf)
The Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Foreclosure Prevention (.pdf) February 2006
With funding from the Ford Foundation, the Family Housing Fund commissioned a study on the cost-effectiveness of mortgage foreclosure prevention. The study was intended to build on two earlier Fund studies on the cost-effectiveness of the Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Program (MFP Program) that operates in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The Fund contracted with Roberto G. Quercia and Spencer M. Cowan of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Ana B. Moreno, local consultant to the Fund to conduct the study. The study suggests that community-based foreclosure prevention services are cost effective. In addition, it finds that pre-purchase counseling is often associated with lower risk of foreclosure. As such, the study also reinforces the effectiveness of pre-purchase counseling as a key tool for achieving successful home ownership.
Click here for the summary of recommendations and findings (.pdf) or the full report (.pdf).
Speaking of Home
August 2008
Speaking of Home is a public artwork by Nancy Ann Coyne exploring immigration,
celebrating diversity, and honoring place. The project is presented in partnership
by Forecast Public Art, Family Housing Fund, and the Institute for Advanced
Study at the University of Minnesota and was first on display in the IDS Center/Macy's
skyway from August through November 15, 2008. Project partners are exploring
other possible venues including Saint Paul and the MPS International Airport.
Learn more at
www.speakingofhome.org
Changing
the Face of Housing in Minnesota Leadership Survey Report
Measuring the Success of Housing, Planning, and Community Development Organizations
in Recruiting and Maintaining Racially and Ethnically Diverse Staffs and Boards.
Full
Report (.pdf)
Don’t
Borrow Trouble Minnesota Campaign: 2003-2005 Report (.pdf)
September 2005-Don’t Borrow Trouble Minnesota (DBT) is a public education
and community outreach campaign that seeks to prevent predatory lending in
the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Launched in March 2003, the campaign combines
education and counseling to help individuals and families become and remain
successful long-term homeowners. Don’t Borrow Trouble aims to empower
consumers through multimedia advertising efforts, targeted community outreach,
a consumer information line and website, and a strong referral network of housing
counselors and others.
The
Next Decade of Housing in Minnesota
November 2003- A new study by BBC Research & Consulting forecasting the need
for new affordable housing in Minnesota on a statewide, regional, and county-by-county
basis through 2010. The study was funded by the Family Housing Fund, the Greater
Minnesota Housing Fund, and the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency to help quantify
the need for affordable housing in Minnesota and to inform decisions about
housing investment throughout the state over the next decade.
Hollman:
Ten Years Later-Celebrate Home, Family, Community, Partnerships (.pdf)
November 2002- On July 29, 1992, the Hollman lawsuit was filed. Ten years later,
commitments are received on virtually all 770 of the replacement public housing
units, and more than half of the units are completed. This total includes 300+
units in Twin Cities' suburban communities-a big accomplishment. This report
profiles several families affected by the lawsuit and provides an overview
of the history, successes, challenges, and promise of Hollman ten years after
the lawsuit was filed.
Workforce Housing: The Key to Ongoing Regional Prosperity
A Study of Housing's Economic Impact on the Twin Cities
October 2001--Together with real estate research firms Maxfield Research Inc.
and GVA Marquette Advisors, the Fund has released a study on the economic impacts
of workforce housing in the Twin Cities. The study found that there is a strong
unmet need for workforce housing in the Twin Cities and that this shortage
has a negative effect on the local economy. The report also shows that working
to solve the workforce housing shortage will stimulate significant economic
benefits that far outweigh the costs and last for decades. Click here for the executive
summary or the
full report.
A Study of the Relationship Between Affordable Family Rental
Housing and Home Values in the Twin Cities
November 2000--The Fund has published a new report, conducted by Maxfield Research,
Inc., which shows that the construction of affordable family rental housing
in suburban communities has little or no effect on the property values of surrounding
single-family homes. Click here for the fact
sheet, summary
of findings or the
full report.
Supportive Housing for Families with Children
March 2000-The Fund has published a series of reports on supportive housing
for families with children, including:
»Supportive
Housing for Families with Children Study
»The Supportive
Housing Continuum: A Model for Housing Homeless Families, Homelessness and its
Effects on Children
»Financial Implications
of Public Interventions on Behalf of a Chronically Homeless Family
These reports drive home the devastating effects of homelessness on families
and offer supportive housing as a humane, cost-effective solution to help break
the cycle of homelessness.
A Report from
the Kids Mobility Project (.pdf)
March 1998-A report that examines the effects of frequent residential moves
on student performance in Minneapolis elementary schools. The Kids Mobility
Project included representatives from the Family Housing Fund, Hennepin County,
Minneapolis Public Schools, and the University of Minnesota.
Preserving
Housing & Neighborhoods: The Interagency Stabilization Group Five-Year
Progress Report 1993-1998 (.doc)
1999-A report summarizing the progress of the Interagency Stabilization Group
(ISG), a task force of public and private agencies that provides financial
assistance to preserve threatened affordable rental housing developments in
Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
Promises
Kept: A Progress Report on the 1991-1995 Minneapolis/Hennepin County
Homelessness Plan (.doc)
April 1997-A report describing the development of more than 1,000 housing units
for homeless adults, youth, and families in Minneapolis and Suburban Hennepin
County.
Cost Effectiveness
of Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention (1995) (.pdf), and Mortgage
Foreclosure Prevention: Program and Trends (1998) (.pdf).
December 1998 and November 1995-The Family Housing Fund has produced two reports
on the effectiveness of mortgage foreclosure prevention. The reports were authored
by Ana Moreno, a consultant to the Fund.