The Solutions
Reimagine the system.
A healthy housing market with choices at all price points
A healthy housing market offers choices for homebuyers at all price points. Today in Minnesota, that isn’t the case. Minnesota lacks an adequate supply of starter homes and is missing much of the middle market.
This happened in large part because our system of housing — our requirements, our process to approve projects, our approach to communities — doesn’t allow for starter homes and choices in the middle market.
To bring the opportunity of homeownership to everyone, everywhere, we need a new, reimagined system. One that invites housing options for all Minnesotans. This includes:
Innovative processes to approve projects
Zoning changes to allow for starter homes to be built
Rules and regulations that balance protections and homeownership opportunities
Close the gap.
The opportunity for homeownership for everyone, everywhere
Minnesota’s shameful history of exclusionary and discriminatory housing practices has had profound impacts on the lives of many Minnesotans.
Closing the gap will take a commitment from elected officials, business leaders, and the community at large:
Lift zoning roadblocks that drive up housing costs
Support education and lending programs
Build, build, build.
At the center of the housing issues impacting Minnesotans today is the lack of housing options at affordable price points
This issue has been building for decades and has reached the crisis point.
The only solution to this problem is to lift roadblocks and build, build, build starter homes.
Ensure adequate land is made available for new home growth
Lift zoning roadblocks that limit new home construction
Modernize building codes
Legalize starter homes.
Homeowners, not governments, should choose home sizes
For decades Minnesotans could rely on a healthy supply of starter homes in communities across the state.
In the 1980s, many Minnesota communities began to require large homes, on large lots with large garages.
This may have created designer communities, but it has become a road block for many Minnesotans looking to buy a home.
We believe that Minnesotans should choose how big their home and garage should be, not local governments.