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Suburbs embrace affordable housing efforts as rents rise in Twin Cities

As rents rise across metro, cities find stable options to help, and keep, tenants.

By Jim Buchta,

MaryJo Webster and

Jeff Hargarten

March 31, 2019 at 12:55AM
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Jim Buchta

Reporter

Jim Buchta has covered real estate for the Star Tribune for several years. He also has covered energy, small business, consumer affairs and travel.

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MaryJo Webster

Data Editor

MaryJo Webster is the data editor for the Minnesota Star Tribune. She teams up with reporters to analyze data for stories across a wide range of topics and beats and also oversees a small team of other data journalists.

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Jeff Hargarten

Data Journalist

Jeff Hargarten is a Minnesota Star Tribune journalist at the intersection of data analysis, reporting, coding and design.

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