Tag Archives: starter homes

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Who Gentrified This Minneapolis Starter Home?

• June 25, 2018

In 2009, my wife and I were looking for a house. I had just finished law school. I had temporary work as a law clerk and wasn’t sure where (or if?) I’d find a permanent job—the legal job market had cratered along with the rest of the economy. So we looked for a place near […]

Small houses from the 1940s in Seward

Starter Homes Are Dead, Long Live Starter Homes

• April 11, 2018

As you may have heard, the Minneapolis draft comprehensive plan includes a proposal to lift the ban on small (2-3 story) multifamily buildings in most of the city, and to allow new fourplexes in all residential areas. Council Members Cam Gordon and Andrew Johnson have said they worry these policies will cause the destruction of […]