TC Housing Compact - Introducing TCHA’s New Campaign to Support Housing Providers and Improve Communities
Introducing!!! TC Housing Compact campaign to highlight shared goals, commitments and change the narrative regarding the housing industry.
At a time of growing regional housing needs, rising public scrutiny, and heightened demand for respectful, civil neighborhoods, the Twin Cities Housing Alliance (TCHA) has launched the TC Housing Compact. This campaign represents a united voice for the people and organizations working every day to create and sustain quality rental homes, across the full range of affordability, that meet the needs of our region.
The Public Cost of Rent Control
While rent control aims to address housing affordability, it does not directly solve the challenges that many renters face. By limiting the ability to increase housing supply, rent control worsens the existing housing shortage, making it harder for new residents to find affordable housing.
TCHA 2024 Year in Review
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Twin Cities Housing: Meeting the Challenge of Supply and Affordability
There are growing challenges facing our region’s rental market. With construction slowing dramatically and demand remaining strong, but when supply fails to meet the needs, the result is rents rise, competition intensifies, and affordability slips further out of reach. These trends should serve as a wake-up call for action.
The Twin Cities Housing Alliance (TCHA) sees this as an opportunity to shift from challenges to solutions. By addressing underproduction and implementing forward-thinking policies, we can ensure the region’s housing market remains accessible and equitable.
Why National Rent Control Proposals Are Counterproductive: Lessons from Minneapolis/St. Paul
Many qualified economists have provided insightful analysis of the challenges and negative externalities of rent control policies in response to recent proposals for a national rent cap. As the Executive Director of the Twin Cities Housing Alliance, I want to draw attention to how these issues resonate locally in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and why we believe there are many programs and policies that provide targeted assistance to those with income insecurity without impacting the housing market’s ability to deliver housing options and opportunities.
TCHA 2023 Year in Review
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Why it Was Time for an Alliance — And What’s Next for TCHA
Two years ago, we started the Twin Cities Housing Alliance because it was evident that there was something missing when it came to understanding the realities – the nuanced, confusing, and sometimes at loggerheads realities – of the housing market and industry.
TCHA’s One Year of Impact: Compelling commitment and we’re just getting started!
It all begins with an idea.
