States, Cities Tackle Housing Crisis for Low, Moderate Income Families

Stateline: In Roseau, Minnesota, there are good-paying jobs at the Polaris snowmobile factory. But a dearth of moderately priced housing means there are few places for the company’s managers and engineers to live.

Without more affordable housing, Polaris will have trouble growing in this northern Minnesota city of 2,600. The company won’t disappear, said Todd Peterson, a community development coordinator in Roseau, but it cannot add new jobs without more housing, and is likely to expand elsewhere.

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