45 Minneapolis-Area Tenants Face The Boot As City Threat To Yank Rental Licenses For Sub-Par Housing Looms Over Landlord

In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Star Tribune reports:

• Only a year out of college, Alan Kwong became a landlord and eventually acquired 15 rental properties on the North Side of Minneapolis. Yet his business has struggled in recent years, and now Kwong has become the latest target of the city's crackdown on negligent landlords.



• Kwong has lost two of his rental licenses already, and on Monday, a City Council committee will vote on a recommendation to revoke the rest of them. If the measure is approved by the full council, 45 tenants could be forced to find somewhere else to live in a rental market already shrunken by the devastating May 22 tornado.

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• [One] tenant of a Kwong-owned property, Amber Johnson, 27, worried about how the council's action would affect her and her three children. "I'm going to try to look for a place, but I don't have money to move right now," she said. "I don't really know where I would go; I'd probably be homeless."

For more, see Landlord's loss leaves tenants in limbo (Forty-five north Minneapolis residents could be out on the street if the city revokes his remaining rental licenses).

For story update, see North Minneapolis landlord allowed to keep rental license (A Minneapolis City Council panel overturned recommendations to revoke licenses for 12 rental units, involving 45 tenants).