Monday, July 9, 2012
HUD says Greenbrier Village association and management company, Gassen Company, Inc., denied housing to people with children under the age of 18.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced Monday that it is charging a Minnetonka condominium association and its management company, Gassen Company, Inc., with violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against families with children under the age of 18. HUD says Greenbrier Village Condominium III Association allegedly maintained a policy prohibiting families with children under 18 from living in the building. The condo's association's residency policy stated that "no apartment may be sold, leased or rented to any person who has a child under the age of 18," according to HUD. This prevented the owner of a condo at Greenbrier Village, located on Cedar Lake Road near Hopkins North Junior High, from leasing …
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
New rules punish agencies with ‘excessive’ savings, cutting federal funding to the city’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority.
Update: At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, members agreed to support the litigation efforts provided they received more information on the organizations overseeing the litigation and how the money to fund it would be spent. *** Hopkins’ Housing and Redevelopment Authority may join with housing authorities across the country to sue the federal government over penalties for saving too much money. New rules that President Barack Obama included in his budget request, and Congress authorized, reduce federal funds for public housing authorities that have “excessive” savings—defined, in Hopkins’ case, as a fund balance greater than six months of typical operating expenses. Last year, the city’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) received $…
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
The downtown project at last obtained a critical loan guarantee.
The Marketplace & Main project in downtown Hopkins is on the move again. Although council agreed Tuesday to extend site plan approval for a year, the project at last has a federal loan guarantee that is critical for moving forward. Marketplace & Main is an $11 million mixed-use development planned at the intersection of Seventh Avenue North and Mainstreet—the site of the former Hopkins Honda body shop and used car sales lot. The four-story project will have more than 50 rental units with commercial and retail space on the ground level. Developers have attempted to build on the site since the city rezoned the property in 2004. The property passed through two owners before transferring to The Beard Group. Backlogs in the Department of …
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
The ban takes effect Jan. 1 for new residents and June 1 for existing residents.
Dow Towers will soon be a no-smoking zone. Hopkins' Housing and Redevelopment Authority approved a ban on smoking inside the subsidized housing building, to go in effect Jan. 1 for new residents and June 1 for those already living there. The Hopkins City Council serves as the city's Housing and Redevelopment Authority. "I think it's high time public buildings are smoke free, and anything paid for by the taxpayers should be," said City Councilman Bruce Rowan. Housing staffers started researching the ban in 2009, after the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development sent a notice strongly encouraging them to prohibit smoking in subsidized housing. Such bans weren't completely unheard of then, and now about 40 housing and …
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CarolineSunshine
1:40 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
You are all crazy. I just was there and im moving in w a two year old. He behaves very well and everyone there showed me the very very thick concrete walls between condos. No noise can be heard between units. Spare the rod, spoil the child - live by the Good Book and your child will delight in the Lord AND good behavior .. more ›