City of Rochester Home Ownership Creation Program

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: City of Rochester, MN

Contact: ; Email: ; Phone:

Known/Likely Collaborators: City of Rochester, MN ; Coalition for Rochester Area Housing ; DMC EDA ; Olmsted County Housing Redevelopment Authority

Potential Collaborators:

Related Projects

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Housing

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Diversity and Inclusion, Governance/Public Policy, Housing

Level 2: Asian American and Pacific Islander, Housing: Affordable Rate

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Programming  

Program Guidelines

Home Ownership Creation Program - Prairie Ridge: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, MN hereby approves the contribution of $4,000,000 to the Prairie Ridge development to support the creation of 201 for-sale homes via the Home Ownership Creation Program.

PB Reporting Housing Projects

Proposed $68M 187-unit rental townhome project.

Olmsted County Trailside Apartments $13 million project 36-Unit Senior Apartments, Bear Creek Development and Three Rivers Community Action $22.7 million Restoration Glen, 48-Unit Apartment Complex,

Allocate $272,959.00 to Mayowood Phase II for fee waivers (frees funding for Home Ownership creation program)

2. Allocate $ 272,967 to revolving Abatement program for homeowners

Support for: Drug and Alcohol Response Team (DART), CredibleMind, "Be in the Know Olmsted" Campaign

2025 Budget and Workplan September DMCC Board Meeting

City Council Oct 2024 on DMC 2025 Budget

September 2024 DMCC Board Meeting with 2025 Workplan Breakout

May 2024 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Joint Meeting

Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting

November 2024 Selma Film and Discussions

2024 Recognition: $1K Scholarship: 2024 Rochester H.S. Graduate: Application and Nomination, Sponsorship and Donation support, Facebook photos of 2024 Mr. and Miss Juneteenth

C2C October 9, 2024 Summit

Presentation Slides  

Vision 2050 AI-Powered Interactive Survey LINK

Mayor Norton Memo to the Public

The Early Childhood Resource Hub, a collaboration between C2C and IMAA, aims to connect Olmsted County families with young children to various resources and services.

September 2022 DMCC Board Status: NTH to run a developer selection process with Mayo

City teammates providing an update on this work, specifically regarding legacy public infrastructure projects, Unbound, infrastructure investments and regulatory milestones.  

2024 ALICE  (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) Report 

Referendum to support: Strong Communities; Strong Schools; Strong Young People

CMRC pausing public activities and investment potential white paper availability announcement.

Sept. 16^th: Workshop: Finding your First Customers and sell without being salesy; Sept 21^st: Workshop: Financial Literacy; Sept. 28^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 1); Oct. 5^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 2);

2022 News Next chapter, summer programming: 5-K run; Narcan training partnership with Diversity Council. 

PB reporting: A local program providing tax breaks to landlords in exchange for maintaining lower rents is being tweaked to encourage future development of affordable housing.