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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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Manufactured Home Park Residents’ Bid to Buy Their Community is Rejected, Leading to Lawsuit
The Lowry Grove Manufactured Home Park in St. Anthony Village, Minnesota, is something of a rarity. This 95 home community of mostly lower income residents, many of them Latino, is an example of very affordable housing without any public subsidy. It also happens to be located in an affluent inner ring suburb with an excellent school system, just ...
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Court Refuses to Dismiss Fair Housing Challenge to Owner’s Wholesale Displacement of Tenants
In a potential landmark case watched by many locally and around the country, the federal district court on July 5, 2016 denied defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint in CROSSRDS v. MSP Crossroads Apartments, LLC. In September 2015, the defendants purchased the 700 unit Crossroads apartments in Richfield, Minnesota, acquiring the third lar...
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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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