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TttAoe Duluth Housing and Redevelopment uthority (HRA) is currently working on a pro~ect replace Harbor View, a 1950s-era public housing project in the Hillside neighborhood in Duluth. The development will be razed over the next fewyears to make way for new mixed-income rental and owner-occupied single-family homes and apartments. A $20 million federal HOPE VI grant will allow the Duluth HRA to replace Harbor View§ 200 apartments with a combination of 186 single-family, duplex and four-plex, owner-occupied and rental neo.traditional houses which, in design and density, are consistent with the architecture and streetscapes of the surrounding neighborhoods. New housing units will be constructed on an adjacent, vacant six-acre site. Rebuilding Harbor View is part of a larger plan that will result in more than 500 new and rehabilitated homes and apartments, businesses, recreation facilities, child care centers and accessible public transportation throughout Duluth. A development team including Duluth HRA, The Communities Group, the Duluth LISC, LISC§ Housing Authority Resource Center (HARC), and Torti, Gallas and Partners Architects planned the redesigned Harbor View site~ The Duluth HRA will provide services such as education and apprenticeship programs and homeownership training to current and future residents. The Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (MHFA) announced the following funding awards from the Spring 2003 funding round. All the awards are in the Duluth area. TheVillage Place project received $450,000. Life House received $165,000 for Phoenix House The At Home in Duluth collaboration received $606,000. Within the At Home in Duluth joint application, the funding amounts are: $6,000 to Duluth LISC for coordination of the At Home in Duluth project; $440,000 to the Duluth HRA for a homeowner rehabilitation project; · $60,000 Neighborhood Housing Services for their purchase, rehabilitation, and resale program; · $50,000 to Spirit Valley Citizens Neighborhood Development Association for housing rehabilifation; and $50,000 to Women§ Transitional Housing for a new construction project on 5'h Street. Northeast Report provided by Northeast Regional Network Coordinator Barb Ackerson Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency 218.749.2912 backerso@aeoa,org Kootasca Community Action, inc received two Small Citie Development Program grants from the Minnesota Departmel~ of Trade and Economic Development; The first grant is for $1,091,800, on behalf of the City of International Falls. The city will use this grant to rehabilitate 20 single-family homes owned and occupied by income qualified households, and 23 commercial buildings in two separate but adjacent target areas. The second grant is for $597,900 on behalf of the City of Marble. The city will use this grant to rehabilitate 22 single- family homes occupied by income-qualified homeowners. Both projects will nearly double the number of standard condition houses in the city. Kootasca Community Action also received a MURL (Minnesota Urban and Rural Homesteading Program) grant from MHFA for $300,000 to buy, rehabilitate, and sell four houses in International Falls to qualified households. Range Mental Health in Hibbing, a service provider for the mentatly ill on the Iron Range, is pushing forward on a project to convert part of the Cobb Cook School Building in Hibbing to rental housing. Part of the old school building contains the administrative offices and program delivery space for Range Mental Health, and the remainder would be converted to new housing units. Minnesota Housing Partnership 8