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The Housing Preservation Project (HPP) 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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HPP files suit to block landlord’s attempted end run around preservation laws
Under certain circumstances owners of Rural Development (RD) Section 515 apartment buildings can prepay their RD mortgages and convert their properties to market rate rents. In order to do so, however, those owners must apply to RD for permission to prepay, and then subject themselves to an elaborate process which includes a combination of incenti...
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HPP issues background paper on housing strategies for Central Corridor
Between late 2008 and early 2010, HPP (partnering with Twin Cities LISC and Community Stabilization Project) led a community planning process focused on affordable housing strategies along the new Central Corridor light rail line. The resulting working group, the Central Corridor Affordable Housing Partnership (CCAHP), is trying to identify strate...
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HUD-Assisted Housing 101
The preservation challenges vary somewhat from one HUD program to another. By far the biggest risks and challenges are with the Multifamily Subsidized Housing and the Project-based Section 8 program. In both programs, many owners seek to convert their buildings to market rate tents by either prepaying their HUD subsidized mortgage or by opting out of the Section 8 contract. HPP has enjoyed significant success, however, in developing legal and advocacy strategies to prevent the conversion of many of these properties to market rate. Beyond this work, HPP has tackled preservation challenges in other HUD programs as well.
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