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Advocates urge continued funding for first‑generation down‑payment aid and homeownership counseling
Summary
Housing advocates and industry groups told the conference committee they support ongoing funding for the community-based first‑generation down‑payment assistance program, homebuyer counseling, and manufactured home community preservation programs.
Advocates representing homeowners, homebuyer counseling, nonprofit developers, and manufactured‑housing organizations told the housing conference committee they support continued and expanded funding for programs that promote homeownership and preserve affordable owner‑occupied home sites.
Paul Edgar, senior vice president of government affairs for the Minnesota Realtors Association, spoke in favor of the Senate’s funding for the community‑based first‑generation homebuyer down‑payment assistance program. “We are proud members of the coalition that worked on the innovative pilot program, which was funded by the legislature in 2023,” Edgar said, and he urged the committee to “prioritize funding for this program at some level so the great support the pilot program is providing for first generation…
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