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The Housing Justice Center (HJC) is a nonprofit public interest advocacy and legal organization whose primary mission is to preserve and expand affordable housing for low-income individuals and families.
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HJC contributes to Third Circuit Decision Upholding Tenant Protections
Across the country, many privately owned HUD-financed affordable apartment complexes include partial or 100% project-based Section 8 contracts which provide rent subsidies for the lowest income tenants. When those Section 8 contracts come up for renewal, owners have the opportunity to “opt out” or not renew the Section 8 contracts. In order t...
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HJC challenges lack of affordable housing in region’s largest redevelopment plan
The former Twin Cities Army Ammunition plant site (TCAAP), located in Arden Hills, is slated for redevelopment. Following removal of all structures and environmental cleanup, this “blank slate” site is the size of all of downtown St. Paul—the largest redevelopment opportunity in the Region. After many years of on-again-off-again planning, t...
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HJC Work & HUD-Assisted Housing
In 1999, HJC (then known as HPP) was formed to address a pressing problem: the prospect of losing a large share of HUD assisted housing. Since then, HJC has enjoyed considerable success working with its partners to employ legal and advocacy strategies to save projects from conversion to market rate rents.
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