Amy Klobuchar

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U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar this week pitched her housing plans for the state, should she be elected governor in November.

Klobuchar’s proposals include reforming permitting processes and streamlining building codes to reduce delays and build more homes faster, with an emphasis on rural Minnesota. She wants to make the existing State Housing Tax Credit permanent and launch a Rural Housing Loan Fund to incentivize more housing investments from developers and cities.

The DFL candidate also pitched using vacant state land for housing, banning price-fixing algorithms and creating a “No Wrong Door” network that would make rental assistance easier to find. She outlined her proposals on Monday, outside first-time homeowners Alex Gray and Michaela McCoy’s house.

Major housing and zoning reform efforts have come up short in the Legislature in recent years as local governments continue to argue they should have the power to set housing standards. Housing is one of the few issues that draws bipartisan support and opposition.

Housing options

Klobuchar emphasized Monday that the housing push can’t be “one size fits all” and that local governments want to see more housing options, and as a result, business growth.

“We want to work with the cities and with the counties,” she said, noting she picked a former mayor as her running mate. “I have talked to Rep. (Michael) Howard and others who are trying to advance these bills, and they’ve actually gotten some agreements on some of the provisions in the bills, and have gotten closer and closer to getting something done on this front.”

One of the housing efforts that failed to cross the finish line is the Manufactured Home Park Bill of Rights. Klobuchar centered some of those protections for manufactured home park residents, and said the issue is important to her because that’s where her in-laws raised six boys.

Most of the proposals were policy- rather than funding-oriented. Minnesota is currently working with a small $3 billion surplus. Klobuchar said she hopes the state can still invest some money in housing, and pointed to federal dollars from the Road to Housing Act that could also be tapped.

“As we know, we’re not facing the best budget situation starting in the fall, and we’re going to have to adapt to that,” Klobuchar said, mentioning her proposal for a top-to-bottom audit of state agencies that she thinks would “free up some resources” for the state.

“It is also not just leveraging the federal money, but also seeing what are things that we can do by working with (the) private, nonprofit sector,” she said.

Bipartisan efforts

Klobuchar’s housing pitch is the second major policy rollout since her campaign launched in late January. It comes roughly a week after she won the DFL’s endorsement for governor ahead of an Aug. 11 primary.

At a news conference in May, she introduced several anti-fraud proposals, as well as pitches focused on government efficiency and support for small businesses.

It won’t be known until November whether the next governor will be working with a divided Legislature, but several of Klobuchar’s proposals thus far have pulled ideas from existing bipartisan efforts at the Legislature.

Klobuchar said the only way to get some of these big changes done at the state level is by working with “legislators on both sides of the aisle.”

“This is based in reality,” she said. “The reality of the fact that the first federal housing bill in decades is finally moving, and reality in the fact that we’ve got state legislators on both sides that are interested, that the business community is interested, that labor is interested, that we’ve got residents that have been crying out for something to get done. So I think we should look at this as one of our win-wins, and something we can accomplish without busting the budget in Minnesota.”