Online Directory of Affordable Rental Housing

HousingLink’s Online Directory of Affordable Rental Housing allows you to search, sort, view and print information about properties and vacancies within the Twin Cities metro area and selected regions in Greater Minnesota.

The Online Directory includes:

• Units considered affordable according to HousingLink’s Rent Limits

• Units that do not necessarily meet HousingLink’s Rent Limits, but have physical accessibility features

• Units that do not necessarily meet HousingLink’s Rent Limits, but have undergone lead-based paint hazard reduction with assistance from a US Housing and Urban Development Agency (HUD)-funded Lead Hazard Control Program.

Note: To provide survivors of the Southeastern Minnesota floods with the greatest amount of housing possibilities, vacancies listed in selected counties of Southeastern Minnesota are exempt from HousingLink’s Rent Limits thru February 2008.

Option 1	Search the Online Directory Use this option to search through ALL properties listed in the Online Directory. This includes the Twin Cities metro area, Northeastern Minnesota and South Central Minnesota. Online Directory
Option 2	Search the Online Directory by selected regions Use this option to search specific regions of the state. Note: Choosing one of these links will fill in the counties listed below for you. Twin Cities Metro area Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington Northeastern Minnesota Aitkin, Bois Forte Indian Reservation, Carlton, Cook, Fond du Lac Indian Reservation, Grand Portage Indian Reservation, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, and St Louis South Central Minnesota Blue Earth, Brown, Dodge, Freeborn, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Olmsted, Rice, Sibley, Steele, Waseca, and Watonwan
Option 3	Search by metropolitan Section 8 jurisdiction Use this option if you have a Section 8 Voucher. In the Twin Cities metro area, the Section 8 Voucher program is administered by 11 different housing authorities Each of those housing authorities serves one specific region of the metro area This creates 11 different Section 8 Voucher program areas The map below is divided according to those 11 Section 8 voucher program regions Click below on the name of the housing authority that administers your Section 8 voucher, and all the cities in which that voucher is accepted will be pre-filled on the following search page.

Instructions for using the Online Directory:

1. Click on Option 1, 2 or 3 above.

2. Select the criteria to be used in your search. To select the criteria:

• Click on it so it is highlighted in blue. (e.g. “Properties where rent = % of income”)

• Click to select it and make it appear in the “Selected…” box to the right.

• (Click to remove any criteria from the “Selected…” box.)

3. When you have finished selecting criteria, click one of the “Submit Housing Search” buttons located at the top or bottom of the page.

4. Examine the results.

5. Contact any property in which you are interested for application information.

Helpful Hints for using the Online Directory:

1. When selecting locations, use either the City category OR the County category. DO NOT use both categories.

2. The more criteria you select, the less results you’ll get. The less criteria you select, the more results you’ll get.

3. Click on the next to any category if you’d like more information about that category.

4. If you have difficulty using the Online Directory, contact HousingLink between 9 AM and 4 PM, Monday thru Friday at 612-522-2500.

Listing your property with HousingLink:

If you would like to list a vacancy or open waiting list in the Online Directory of Affordable Rental Housing, visit HousingLink's Landlord page. Listing is free and easily done online.

HousingLink is a fair housing organization. We do not discriminate against persons on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, disability, creed, martial status, public assistance, ancestry, sexual or affectional orientation, or age.