ST. PAUL — Eight Northern Minnesota housing projects are among the 51 selected for Minnesota Housing financing.
The agency announced its annual selection in mid-December, totaling $166.4 million in investments between state dollars and federal housing tax credits and programs.
“These resources are helping us make real progress on Minnesota’s housing shortage. Because of these approved projects, hundreds of families will soon be able to call one of over 800 newly built apartments home,” stated Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in a news release.
“And we’re preserving existing housing so it stays safe, affordable and in good repair. No matter your ZIP code, Minnesotans deserve a place they’re proud to call home, and this project gets us one step closer.”
Two multifamily projects were among the selections.
The Hibbing Housing and Redevelopment Authority and Center City Housing Corp. were awarded $3.4 million to construct 48 new units.
Missabe Manor, as the project is called, is the second phase of the Hibbing HRA’s plans to replace the blighted 102-unit Haven Court housing. The first phase was the 52-unit Cobb Cook Place, originally proposed for Cobb Cook Park before being moved to its present site behind Grace Lutheran Church.
Missabe Manor will be on the same site as Cobb Cook Place. The three-story building will have four four-bedroom, eight three-bedroom, 24 two-bedroom and 12 one-bedroom units.
Minnesota Housing also selected the White Earth Reservation Housing Authority for $12.1 million in funding. The agency will use the money to preserve an existing building with two-, three- and four-bedroom units for tribal households in Mahnomen.
The rest of the Northern Minnesota selections will create single-family units, focused on low-income families and preserving affordability.
Three of the selections are community land trusts, where an organization sells a home but still owns the land itself in an effort to keep the homes affordable long term.
Duluth nonprofit One Roof Community Housing was selected for $3.1 million to acquire, rehabilitate and resell 10 homes in Carlton, St. Louis and Lake counties.
One Roof places the properties in its community land trust program to preserve long-term affordability. The nonprofit plans to work primarily in Duluth, Cloquet, Hermantown, Proctor, Two Harbors and Wrenshall but will consider other locations in its target area.
One Roof works with the Itasca County Housing and Redevelopment Authority, which was also selected. The HRA will use $1.6 million for Phase Three of its community land trust project, supporting eight new units planned for the former site of Forest Lake Elementary School.
Nonprofit North Star Neighbors will use $2.6 million to build a total of six community land trust homes in Bemidji and Warren.
Minnesota Housing awarded $2.1 million to the Red Lake Housing Finance Corp. to procure modular home units and provide mortgage financing for tribal members on the reservation and in Beltrami County who would not otherwise be able to obtain financing. The program will fund 14 new housing units.
And North St. Louis County Habitat for Humanity will put its $200,000 from Minnesota Housing into its impact fund, to be split among eight new homes. The nonprofit serves communities from Cotton to Ely and from Hibbing to Hoyt Lakes.
Northern MN housing projects
- Missabe Manor, Hibbing, 48 new multifamily units
- White Earth Homes, Mahnomen, preserving 48 multifamily units
- One Roof, Duluth and surrounding communities, acquire 10 single-family units for community land trust
- Itasca County HRA, Grand Rapids, 8 new single-family community land trust units
- North Star Neighbors, Bemidji and Warren, six new single-family community land trust units
- Red Lake Housing Finance Corp., Beltrami County and Red Lake Reservation, financing for 14 single-family units
- North St. Louis County Habitat for Humanity, eight new single-family units
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