The Twin Cities' Immense Variation in Housing Affordability - Streets.mn

The Twin Cities' Immense Variation in Housing Affordability - Streets.mn

In February, I wrote about how low and flat rents in Minneapolis were contributing to a slowdown in the city’s housing development. The city has built lots of housing in the past few years, in part enabled by recent zoning reforms, helping keep rents low. My main takeaway was that this was a good thing, especially to the extent that we could credit an expansion in housing supply for maintaining this level of affordability.  I also included an im…