Public Interest

It’s easy to feel hopeless about the housing crisis, especially if you live in St. Paul, where any hint of new housing on the horizon seems to fade like a mirage. But I have seen it with my own eyes: Little Mod, a (mostly) market-rate project providing 12 homes affordable at 50% of the area median income (AMI), built by a new development team called GRO. It’s a lovely, modern “net-zero” infill project, with solar panels providing all of its energy. Halfway between West 7th Street and the Mississippi River, the new homes are close to transit and a dozen small businesses.