Minneapolis-Area Non-Profits To Receive Funding For "Tenant Rights" Counseling For Renters Facing "Foreclosure Eviction"

In Hennepin County, Minnesota, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:

• Concerned that home foreclosures are displacing renters who don't know their rights, the Hennepin County Board moved Tuesday to boost resources to help renters stay in foreclosed homes as long as possible and prevent empty houses from becoming targets for vandals.

• The board gave preliminary approval for $70,000 in new county funding to go to three nonprofits that counsel renters on their rights. That money will be matched by state money from the Family Housing Fund, a nonprofit group that works to ensure affordable housing in the seven-county metropolitan area. It follows a county investment of $300,000 earlier this year to counsel homeowners who face possible foreclosure.

• "There is no silver bullet ... but this is an attempt to balance the help we've already given to homeowners," said county Commissioner Gail Dorfman.

For more, see Some help for renters caught up in foreclosures (Looking to keep people in homes, the Hennepin County Board supports money for groups advising on their leasing rights). equity skimming unwittingly gamma