Our Demands

Below are Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition’s demands to pass resolutions, ordinances, policies, and bills at the City of Minneapolis and State to keep public housing public housing & build more public housing permanently !

  • Protect all public housing and build more: Create a permanent-public policy, county, city-wide ordinances, and state bills to keep all public housing units as public housing in Minneapolis and build more public housing. This includes 42 high rises, over 740 homes, Glendale Townhomes, more public housing homes, and over 6,040 current public housing units. Prohibit the sale, or lease of land to private developers/investors, or MPHA becoming a private investor, charging market prices for profit through Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, or Land Use Restrictive Agreements, etc. Adhere to the permanent protection land trust Declaration of Trust (DOT).
  • Stop the sale and lease of public housing buildings: Public housing properties are currently the first target of conversion by MPHA to private developers and investors. This includes Elliot Twins,  Glendale Townhomes, Cedar-Riverside Public Housing,  Horn Towers, etc. This also includes public housing buildings in Wards that predominantly Black and Brown, elders/ seniors and people with disabilities that are the first target, and all public housing properties.
  • Eliminate future displacements: Build more public housing as is 30% of income for rent for low- income tenants, and stop the privatization of public housing to minimize displacement, homelessness, the housing crisis, social & economic crisis. And, approve Glendale Townhomes’ application for local historical designation at Minneapolis City Council.
  • Fund public housing as a public good: Access public funds from the State, County, and City to keep public housing public. Funding for public housing (through the City Levy, County Funs, Affordable Housing fund, etc.) must be added to the City of Minneapolis, County, and State legislative agenda. Public funding to private developers that build temporarily limited-income-based housing for low-income families must be eliminated. Instead, that funding should be used to build more public housing, as well as funding & sustaining public housing, which provides a long-term safety net, and provides social and economic stability to low-income residents of Minneapolis.
  • Hold MPHA accountable to fix & repair all public housing properties  and stop using the fund to privatize 
  • Investigate MPHA: Investigate the legal/working relationship between MPHA and Minneapolis City Council, including the shift in mission in MPHA’s “Strategic Vision and Capital Plan for 2018-2020”, which inappropriately abandons the provision/mission of public housing for low income/poor families, in favor of housing for wealthier persons whose income is 50%-80% AMI, which far exceeds the income of MPHA’s current tenants, including MPHA’s proposal for construction, management, and ownership of high-end market-rate housing by MPHA as a public agency. 
  • Fill all current public housing vacancies with unsheltered people immediately.
  • Specifically, fill the 22 empty public housing units at Elliot Twins that are set aside for RAD privatization by MPHA and City of Minneapolis. These units are one-bedroom and studio.
  • Minneapolis should seize vacant units created using taxpayer money like the low-income housing tax credit and affordable housing funds and run them as public housing units with MPHA managing them as a public good to house unsheltered people.
  • All residents with zero income must be housed in public housing units.
  • All residents who are able to pay rent must pay not more than 30% of their actual income for rent which includes all utilizes and fees.
  • Seize back all privatized public housing and cancel all contracts and programs meant to privatize public housing.
  • Fund the construction and maintenance of high-quality public housing as a public good.
  • Continue the creation of public housing to meet the need for housing unsheltered people.
  • Reverse all the privatization resolution, MOU, etc. The city of Minneapolis approved without the approval of public housing residents and the community at large.