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HF3064 • 2026

St. Paul; public housing agency grant funding provided, and money appropriated.

St. Paul; public housing agency grant funding provided, and money appropriated.

Housing
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Hussein
Last action
2025-04-02
Official status
Introduction and first reading, referred to Housing Finance and Policy
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific details on how the funds will be used beyond rehabilitation, preservation, equipping, and repairing deeply affordable housing.

St. Paul Public Housing Grant Funding

This bill provides $20 million in grant funding from the state's general fund to the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency for the public housing agency of St. Paul and its affiliated entities, including Capital City Affordable Housing.

What This Bill Does

  • Provides a one-time grant of $20 million from the state's general fund to the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency.
  • The money is given to help the city of St. Paul’s public housing agency fix, keep up, and improve its affordable single-family homes and duplexes.
  • This funding also supports Capital City Affordable Housing, a nonprofit corporation controlled by the city of St. Paul.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The city of St. Paul's public housing agency
  • Capital City Affordable Housing, a nonprofit corporation controlled by the city of St. Paul

Terms To Know

General Fund
A fund that holds money for different state programs and services.
Affordable Housing
Housing that costs less than what people can afford, usually no more than 30% of their income.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill only provides funding for one year in fiscal year 2026.
  • It does not specify how the money will be spent beyond fixing and improving homes.

Bill History

  1. 2025-04-02 House

    Introduction and first reading, referred to Housing Finance and Policy

Official Summary Text

St. Paul; public housing agency grant funding provided, and money appropriated.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
A bill for an act

relating to housing; appropriating money for a grant to the public housing agency

of the city of St. Paul.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.
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APPROPRIATION; ST. PAUL PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY.
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$20,000,000 in fiscal year 2026 is appropriated from the general fund to the Minnesota

Housing Finance Agency for a grant to the public housing agency for the city of St. Paul

and its affiliated entities, including its wholly controlled nonprofit corporation, Capital City

Affordable Housing, to rehabilitate, preserve, equip, and repair its deeply affordable

single-family home and duplex units. This is a onetime appropriation.

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