FRIDLEY, Minn. – Natividad Seefeld could not believe it when she answered the phone and the caller told her he wanted to start a library at the Park Plaza Cooperative, a small manufactured home park just off Hwy. 65 in Fridley.
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“In commercial banking, they talk a lot about ‘We want to help with affordable housing, so let’s build apartment complexes,'” says Tina McKinstry, a member of Takesa Village, a resident-owned mobile home park in Mead. “You’re making a landlord rich. You’re not making the people rich. With [co-ops], you’re making the people rich.”
February 20, 2025
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