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HRA Meeting <br />Minutes – June 21, 2011 <br />Page 2 <br />1 <br />2 <br />8.Presentations <br />3 <br />Member Quam arrived at this time, approximately 6:07 p.m. <br />4 <br />5 <br />a.Project for Pride in Living (PPL) <br />6 <br />Housing Manager Jeanne Kelsey introduced representatives of Project for Pride in Living <br />7 <br />(PPL) for a presentation to familiarize Board members with the housing and related services <br />8 <br />offered by their organization. Present from PPL were Executive Director Steve Cramer, and <br />9 <br />Director of Real Estate Development Chris Wilson <br />10 <br />11 <br />Steve Cramer <br />12 <br />Mr. Cramer provided an overview of PPL, and mission to work with lower-income individuals <br />13 <br />and families living throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area, assisting them in achieving <br />14 <br />greater self-sufficiency through housing, employment training, support services and education. <br />15 <br />16 <br />Mr. Cramer reviewed their organization's philosophy and programs for housing stability, <br />17 <br />through sustaining quality, affordable housing for lower income families and individuals <br />18 <br />through new construction, renovation of existing multi-family buildings, and management of <br />19 <br />those facilities. Related to assisting residents of their buildings attain economic advancement; <br />20 <br />PPL offers employment job training and career advancement programs to help individuals <br />21 <br />widen their opportunities. Another initiative of PPL is in ensure family sustainability through <br />22 <br />ensuring that the families they house and programs offered by PPL provide one-on-one <br />23 <br />services customized to an individual’s or family’s specific needs to help them build a brighter, <br />24 <br />stable future and in-turn provide stronger communities. The youth achievement programs <br />25 <br />offered by PPL focus on breaking the cycle of poverty through offering a broad range of <br />26 <br />programs for children from early childhood through high school graduation. <br />27 <br />28 <br />Mr. Cramer advised that 14,000 people have been served throughout the Twin Cities by a PPL <br />29 <br />staff of 200, including property development and management functions. <br />30 <br />31 <br />Chris Wilson <br />32 <br />Mr. Wilson presented an overview of the housing options provided by PPL, including single- <br />33 <br />family rental housing, small and large multi-family rentals; and provided examples of some of <br />34 <br />those projects developed or purchased over the last thirty (30) years. Example properties <br />35 <br />included: <br />36 <br />Midtown Exchange Condominiums offering 57 total, 1-3 bedroom units on a greenway at <br />37 <br />thth <br />29 Street and 11 Avenue in South Minneapolis; <br />38 <br />Lowell Curve single-family development of fourteen (14) single-family homes in-filled <br />39 <br />through partnership with Habitat for Humanity in the Jordan neighborhood of N <br />40 <br />Minneapolis on Logan Avenue; sold to buyers at 60-80% average median income (AMI) <br />41 <br />depending on the unit; <br />42 <br />Linden Park Condominiums in New Hope on Boon Avenue, with 41 total, 1-2 bedroom <br />43 <br />units and income restrictions at 115%, or 60-80% AMI again depending on the unit; <br />44 <br />Eco Village in the Hawthorn neighborhood of N Minneapolis at Lowry and Lindale, a 12- <br />45 <br />year old building that PPL rehabilitated and received LEED-ND (Neighborhood <br />46 <br />Development) certification for energy saving, estimated at $400 per year total utilities; <br />47 <br />Southside Community Apartments located in the Whittier neighborhood of South <br />48 <br />Minneapolis, with 48 units total in 7 buildings, from efficiencies to 3 bedroom, and <br />49 <br />income restrictions based on household earnings below 50% AMI; <br />50 <br />Rental Brook Common in the Como neighborhood of Minneapolis, with 50 total rental <br />51 <br />units and 38 of those available for households with incomes below 50% AMI; and 12 units <br />52 <br />designated permanently as supportive housing for chronically homeless single adults with <br />53 <br />income below 30% AMI; and <br />54 <br />Freemont Flats, the old Highland Neighborhood in N Minneapolis. <br />55 <br /> <br />
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