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County board actions
The county board awarded $2.7 million of funding for affordable housing, $2.2 million for development along transit lines and funding to continue help for chronically homeless families.
$2.7
million awarded for affordable housing
Voting May 2 as the Housing and Redevelopment Authority, the board awarded 2017 Affordable Housing Incentive Fund grants
to help develop and preserve 657 affordable housing units.
Hennepin County awarded funding to the following projects:
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Aeon
Prospect Park, Minneapolis: $250,000 to construct 70 units of mixed-income
rental housing
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CLCLT
Homebuyer Initiated Program, Minneapolis: $100,000 to restore four
single-family homes
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Knox
& American, Bloomington: $300,000 to construct 284 units of mixed-income
rental housing including 50 affordable rental units
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Minnehaha
Commons, Minneapolis: $250,000 to construct 43 rental units for seniors
experiencing homelessness
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Minnehaha
Townhomes, Minneapolis: $500,000 to construct 16 rental units for families
experiencing homeless
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PLACE St.
Louis Park: $300,000 to construct 299 units of mixed-income rental housing including
200 affordable rental units
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Reprise:
Brooklyn Park: $200,000 to refinance and rehabilitate 110 senior apartment
units and 60 family townhome rental units
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Sabanthi
Senior Housing, Minneapolis: $400,000 to construct 50 affordable rental
units for seniors next to the Sabanthi Community Center
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The
Mariner, Minnetonka: $200,000 to construct 236 units of mixed-income rental
housing including 55 affordable rental units
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WHAHLT
Homes Within Reach, suburban Hennepin County: $200,000 to restore six
single-family homes
Since 2000, the program has committed $59.9 million and
leveraged more than $1.3 billion in additional investment to create and
maintain more than 7,200 affordable housing units.
Read more about funding awards.
Read more about the Affordable Housing Incentive Fund.
Voting May 2 as the Housing and Redevelopment Authority, the board awarded funding for seven projects that will
create housing, commercial space, jobs and improved connections to transit. Hennepin
County funding for these projects will support bicycle infrastructure,
landscaping, sidewalks, trails, wayfinding, streetscaping, lighting and more
near transit stations.
Hennepin County awarded funding to the following projects:
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38th
Street Station, Minneapolis, $400,000: Located near the 38th
Street Station on the METRO Blue Line, the project will construct a new
mixed-use development with housing, retail and office space.
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East Town
Apartments, Minneapolis, $330,000: The project, located within walking
distance of the U.S. Bank Station on the METRO Blue and Green Lines, will
support development of 169 affordable housing units.
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Green on
4th, Minneapolis, $400,000: The project includes 243
mixed-income units located near the Prospect Park Station on the METRO Green
Line.
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Knox
& American, Bloomington, $400,000: Located along the future Orange Line
Bus Rapid Transit corridor, the project will include 248 mixed-income
apartments, a 125-room hotel and restaurant.
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Penn
Avenue Union, Minneapolis, $200,000: The project, adjacent to the future
Penn & Golden Valley Station on the C-Line, will create 64 units of
mixed-income housing and commercial space.
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Southwest
Station Apartments, Eden Prairie, $300,000: Located next to the existing Southwest
Station and future Green Line Extension Station, the project will add 222
mixed-income units and retail space.
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Youth
Link-Downtown View Apartments, Minneapolis, $170,000: The project will consist of 47 new affordable housing units for
homeless youth and the expansion of a youth service center.
Read more about funding awards.
Read more about Hennepin County transit oriented development grants.
The board approved $351,875 of U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development grant funding to help chronically homeless families
attain stable housing. Funding will allow six full-time caseworkers to continue
serving hard-to-reach families coping with physical, emotional or behavioral
disabilities. Between June 2015 and June 2016, 99 percent of all 51 families
participating in the program secured or maintained permanent housing.
Read
more about this action.
Last week, Toastmasters International recognized Hennepin
County for supporting county employees who participate in three Hennepin
County-sponsored clubs and two other local Toastmasters clubs. During a
ceremony at the Government Center on May 5, Toastmasters International Director
Monique Levesque-Pharoah presented the program's Corporate Recognition Award to County
Administrator David Hough.
Learn more about these clubs
and other Toastmaster clubs in the area.
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