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Twin Cities Rents at Risk of Rising <br />Page 1of2 <br />Attachment I <br />11,ia rirafinfing & Assls�ta�ince, 11POlicy Media I ookfing ��foIir 11,ifing <br />Aboiu�t INUIl"W lllbgs <br />Blogls MHP" Connect T'wiin Cities IEelnts at IRislk of IEiisiing <br />Searcli,... <br />Twin Cities Rents at Risk of Rising, <br />......... . .......... . .... .. <br />Mn DONJ%31 NOW <br />Aug 17 J1 15A8 <br />If you've been foillowiing the rental market in the Twin Cities,, you probably saw the headlines about a month <br />ago that apartment vacancy rates, dove down to 2.4% last quarter- a low not seen in many years,. To find out <br />just how long it's, been, MHP looked to the hils,toirical data of Marquette Advilsoirs, (formerly G,VA Marquette). <br />What we found when we pIlotted the data surprised us,, and spells, concern for rental affordability. <br />EveInts <br />TWIn 0199 Average Rents and W cy Rafts,, 1996-2011 <br />m4nt Voc. to <br />The Metropolitan Council reel <br />7.19% CK, <br />a Housing (Policy Planning An4lyst. <br />III "1 ­,"13 11 u <br />Fill 77* <br />tal eview and the HOME <br />Environmen �R <br />rn , Sept. 14 <br />Progra training -15, Roseville, <br />05"D <br />"i NN W w W a, ­11 ,v .''I Q. I v I hm ffi, I I 1* fl, 1 11.d 1 <br />UN. Sponsored lby lMHP.. <br />New Suburban, Horneless. Youth Prograrn <br />w"w""m $7 1 <br />Ia. <br />14% <br />Info Sessions, Sept. 15, 19, 20, 22. <br />Minnesota NAHRO 2 011 , Annual <br />Conference, Sept. 21-21 <br />�17R­q,, III R lfl­�, I,", I I If 01111"I'".'' If, I I <br />21% <br />Infrastructure for Compact Development <br />in the Suburbs- Solving Funding and <br />Coordination, Challenges, Oct. 11. <br />-,­r-rrrrr4,- <br />on <br />Sponsored by ULL. <br />Q1 Q1 CP (z] W Q1 Q I Q1 CH Q1 Q1 ON Q1 Q1 Q1 0.1 <br />F16 F17 Fel cc, D1 Ica 011 0141 01z 0116 D17 00 C119I Icl 11 <br />Connecting the laiots, Nov.. 5, Duluth.. <br />A , Ira, e Rent, rate,, all untits <br />Presented by IDulluth LISC and At Home <br />in IDUlUth.. <br />UataSia utre a Ma N.Ue, itteAdvisorsIG VA Marque, tte <br />First, looking at the data over the last fifteen years,, vacancy rates have hit both high and low notes, ranging <br />MM Connect: How to <br />from 1.1% in the middleof 1998towell over 7% iin2003 and 2OO4and again in 2009. Yet average rents have <br />Subscribe <br />sung a different tune: they have risen or stagnated, but haven't usually fallen much, even during times, of high <br />vacancy rates,. (The one-quarter exception was in late in 2008 as the recession hit.) <br />Secondly, ecoinomiic trends, have an enormous, impact on the rental market. Whether the 1990s boom years, <br />Click here to learn how to subscribe. <br />the rise and bursting of the home ownership bubble, or the recent reces,s,iion, each one makes fits , mark in the <br />MHIP Connect was formerly known as <br />rental market. Here's a rundown of the trends,. <br />The BUIlefin.. Access back 1SSUes of The <br />Bulletin here.. <br />• 1990s through 2000: Tremendous economic expIans,iion fueled a shortage of workforce housing and <br />high demand for rentals, with oingoliing low vacancy rates, and rising rental costs,. <br />• 20011: A miild reces,siioin iin March-NlovembIer 2001 drove down rental demand. <br />• 2002-3: In 2002 vacancies rose with a post- recess iioin recovery, as they often do, before economic <br />Related Housing Blogs <br />improvements filter down to individual level. The upscale rental market built up iin previous, years, saw <br />significant vacancy as "favoirable" homebIuyer mortgages become available. <br />• 2003-6: Massive numbers of people floicked to home ownershiipI, riding the housing bubble wave of easy <br />credit and little money down. 2005-6 marked the peak years, for homeownership. However, rental <br />vacancy rates, fell, with strong job growth causing rental demand to rise. Some rental units were <br />converted to condois, trimming supply. <br />• 2007: Housing bubble crash iin full force. New construction fell- rental supply tightened some. <br />• 2008-9- Great Reces,s,iioin; rental market slackened dramatically. Many families and singles, that would <br />otherwise have been living on their own dolubIled up. Many young people delayed forming independent <br />households. (Meanwhile, foreclosures, contiinued.) <br />• 2010-Present: With limited ecoinomiic recovery, the great backlog of rental demand rears fits head. Tens <br />of thousands of foreclosed former homeowners seek new housing, and a backlog of households form or <br />mortgiage more Volume <br />leave doubled up situations. Very limited multi-family coin struct iloin since 20016 (see page 3) cointrilbutes, <br />to tight <br />hou s iIng funding providles <br />rental supply. <br />Issue pro gIra MS assistance <br />Development public homes that <br />http://www.mhponline.org/mhp-bIogs/mhp-connect/226-twin-cities-rents-at-risk-of-rising 09/141/2011 <br />