Housing and Residential Development

The city’s Comprehensive Plan designates a significant amount of land for additional residential development, raising the percent of residential land from 40% to around 50% by 2040. We can leverage partnerships with developers, property managers, nonprofits, and other governmental entities to include affordable housing units in the residential developments that are forthcoming in the next 20 years, as we have in the past. In the late 1990s, Maple Grove seized an opportunity to use federal funding to convert tax forfeited properties into the beginnings of its now 28-unit Scattered Site Rental Housing Program , which has helped families become self-reliant and later transition to home ownership. The City of Edina launched a program last year to financially assist first-generation home buyers with their mortgages, and they also have a housing preservation program to prevent the tear-down of smaller, affordable single-family homes. There are many creative approaches to make housing across a variety of needs available to our future residents.