That will change next week when CCHT becomes Aeon.

Even some middle-income employees can’t afford homes near their suburban jobs, and their employers are feeling the consequences.  One solution:  In Chaska, companies are supporting affordable housing developments for the middle class.

On March 1, 1956, at a site that will soon open as a new housing development, the staff of Ripley Hospital for Women, 300 Queen Avenue North in Minneapolis’s Harrison neighborhood, gathered their half dozen or so patients in the large, sunny, enclosed front porch of their picturesque brick building — white women and black women, most or all of whom were there free of charge — threw a modest party with coffee and cookies, sent them home and locked the doors.

Beautifully designed, inside and out, the Jourdain is helping transform an inner-city neighborhood.

ST. PAUL, MINN. For an abandoned warehouse in this city's old industrial area, a few extra steps made all the differnce.

In a single autumn day, more than 100 volunteers transformed drab community rooms and kitchens at the Downtown Lamoreaux into cozy, stylish spaces.

Low-income apartment plans test resolve of officials, residents to follow through on 'workforce housing' ideals.

Local experts dispute stereotype that low-income housing draws crime to neighborhoods.

The Minnesota Housing Finance Agency is awarding more than $37 million this fall to help with construction and development of affordable housing projects throughout the state.

A Chaska neighborhood is getting a new town center and more housing options.

On a blustery fall day, with snowflakes swirling all around, Central Community Housing Trust broke ground on its latest project, Clover [Field] Marketplace in Chaska's Clover Ridge neighborhood.

Central Community Housing Trust plans to break ground this fall on the Clover [Field] Marketplace, a 115-unit apartment building with about half the units aimed at low-income tenants, as well as 10,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial development.

The historic Crane Ordway warehouse at 281 E. Fifth Street in St. Paul's Lowertown neighborhood will re-open today as a 70-unit affordable apartment building.

A long-vacant plumbing supply warehouse dodged the wrecking ball in 1998 to become St. Paul's newest affordable housing, with 70 units.

Yuppies and bourgeois bohemians need not apply to downtown St. Paul's newest loft development. In fact, the developers of the Crane Ordway apartments are trying to capture a less-sought urban market: the poor.

Central Community Housing Trust is redeveloping the former Ripley Maternity Hospital into fifty-two affordable rental units.

Minneapolis-based Central Community Housing Trust is continuing to expand its affordable housing programs to the suburbs, closing at the end of May on the 120-unit Har Mar Apartments in Roseville.

The New Housing Counts Report on 2005 affordable housing production and preservation produced jointly by HousingLink and Family Housing Fund, shows that at least 1,200 affordable units, both rental and homeownership, were put into the production pipeline in 2005 across the Twin Cities.

A little over a year ago, a special new housing complex was opened in downtown Minneapolis. The St. Barnabas Apartments were the result of a bold vision and a unique partnership, whose members included the Central Community Housing Trust, Allina Hospitals and Clinics, YouthLink, and the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota. How have things been going since that time? Carol Gronfor, Development Director for YouthLink, has provided this update.

After three years of working toward a lengthy set of affordable housing goals, the city surpassed the target number of affordable living units it wanted to see in place by the end of last year.

Alan Arthur, president of Central Community Housing Trust, credits the Harrison Neighborhood Association for developing the plan to make the Ripley Gardens project a reality.

Dating back to 1904, the historic Crane Ordway Building in Lowertown was designed by the same architectural firm that did New York's Grand Station and our own St. Paul Hotel.

The prospect of a gleaming 40-story, glass-and-steel condominium tower in a height-sensitive city built with brick and old-world charm could have brought out the picketers.

Hope Community, a community development organization at the corner of Franklin and Portland, has undergone sweeping changes throughout its almost 30-year history. But the core stays the same-belief in the power of people and place.  

In many ways, low-income East Metro residents are having a harder time than ever making sure their families’ basic needs are met. Over the last decade, the average worker’s salary has risen 9 percent, while the average worker’s rent went up 34 percent.

St. Paul-based Common Bond, one of Minnesota's largest developers of affordable housing, caught the full brunt of one of Hurricane Katrina's northernmost gales as it was finalizing plans for its most recent project.

In the 1950s, a middle-aged Native American woman named Winnie Jourdain bought a Minneapolis home at the intersection of Franklin and Portland avenues, in what is now known at the Phillips neighborhood.  

A pair of nonprofit partners this winter kicked off the second stage of their ambitious effort to rebuild a historic but stubbornly blighted intersection in south Minneapolis.

Mobile-home parks in Minnesota are rapidly disappearing as land prices soar, leaving residents hard-pressed to find affordable housing elsewhere.

How a cadre of developers has turned $800-a-month local apartments into $200,000 condos—and turned out a few thousand residents in the process.

When 19-year-old Angelique Shores was a junior at Richfield High School, she and her classmates were required to talk about their greatest fear during a business course called "Living on Your Own."

Martin Lubell's struggling Renaissance Box community building near Lowertown found a savior in another free-thinking entrepreneur -- his father-in-law.

As the nonprofit Central Community Housing Trust looks to a future of developing affordable housing beyond its core in Minneapolis, the organization's track record continues to bring it national recognition.

Reality has set in for St. Paul downtown property owner Martin Lubell, who has diligently held onto his eclectic Renaissance Box community building despite failing to pay off a city loan since 2002.

Laurence Norfleet has survived what he calls a "tough, rough background," particularly since he discovered 13 years ago that he was HIV-positive.

Minneapolis-based nonprofit Central Community Housing Trust (CCHT) has a purchase agreement in place for the struggling Renaissance Box building in downtown St. Paul, but it's not clear that the city of St. Paul will endorse the plan.

A former maternity hospital and the site of an old gas station in Minneapolis soon will be transformed into affordable housing. But just because the residents will be low-income doesn't mean the housing will be low-cost.

Another birth at Martha G. Ripley Maternity Hospital in north Minneapolis is underway.

Minneapolis - Central Community Housing Trust (CCHT) turned a long-abandoned downtown hospital here into 52 units of affordable housing, most of them for teens who are homeless or at risk of being homeless.