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Title: Assessing the Need: Affordable, Accessible Housing in the Twin Cities

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: In 2007, Barney Frank, a member of the House of Representatives, visited community leaders in Minneapolis to hear their stories of the subprime mortgage crisis. As chairman of the Committee on Financial Services, he came away with two beliefs: 1) the absence over the past twelve years of any significant federal aid for the construction of affordable rental units left individuals with disabilities in a vulnerable situation and 2) a federal policy that has allowed some affordable units to become market-rate has exacerbated the problem. This story was related in Priced Out in 2008, a bi-annual report that tracks the affordability of housing for people . . .

Url: https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/62171/1/Assessing the Need.pdf

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Authors: Bowie, Haden; Nix, Noel; Roskopf, Justin

Publisher: Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

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Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other

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