Across the Twin Cities and across Christian denominations, growing immigrant congregations are renting space from older churches with dwindling memberships.
The Lowry Grove mobile home park in St. Anthony was set to be sold to a developer. But some of the park's residents rallied to save it. With the help of an affordable-housing nonprofit, they just might have done it.
Antonia Alvarez has spent a decade advocating for immigration, transportation and housing rights. Now, with the impending closure of St. Anthony's Lowry Grove mobile home park, the fight has become personal. She has until Saturday to raise $6 million to save the neighborhood.
The city's ambitious plan to get rid of thousands of lead service lines isn't a perfect solution to removing lead from drinking water, but it's progress.