Editing Saint Paul, Minnesota (section)

===Housing===
In November 2021, Saint Paul became the only Midwestern city to regulate rent increases when voters passed a [[rent control]] ordinance as part of a larger effort to curb rising housing costs.<ref name="passed law">{{cite news |last1=Melo |first1=Frederick |title=St. Paul City Council likely to prune rent-control ordinance next week |url=https://www.twincities.com/2022/09/07/st-paul-city-council-likely-to-exempt-new-construction-for-rent-control-going-back-20-years/ |work=[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]]|access-date=September 27, 2022|date=September 7, 2022}}</ref><ref name="reformer rent">{{cite news |last1=Nesterak |first1=Max |title=St. Paul City Council passes sweeping overhaul of rent control ordinance |url=https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/09/21/st-paul-city-council-passes-sweeping-overhaul-of-rent-control-ordinance/ |access-date=March 5, 2023 |work=Minnesota Reformer |date=September 21, 2022}}</ref> The law limited annual rent increases to 3% and prohibited higher increases after a tenant vacated a unit.<ref name="reformer rent" /> This resulted in an 80% reduction in requests for new housing permits, while in [[Minneapolis]], permits were up 70%.<ref name="Reason_2022-03-22">{{cite news |last=Britschgi |first=Christian |date=2022-03-22 |title=America's Most Controversial Rent Control Law Is Getting a Hasty Makeover - A collapse in new development activity followed St. Paul voters' approval of a strict, vaguely written rent control ordinance. City and state officials are scrambling over how best to fix the new law. |url=https://reason.com/2022/03/22/politicians-scramble-to-define-amend-repeal-the-nations-most-controversial-rent-control-law/ |newspaper=[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]] |quote=Tomorrow the St. Paul City Council will discuss the details of implementing Question 1, a brief, voter-passed ordinance that caps annual rent increases at 3 percent and which includes none of the typical exemptions or allowances for new construction, vacant units, or inflation. ... California and Oregon policies also include a number of other exemptions to their state-level rent control laws. They allow property owners, up to a point, to add inflation to allowable rent increases. They both allow landlords to raise rents as high as they want between tenants and have higher caps on rent increases: 5 percent in California and 7 percent in Oregon.}}</ref><ref name="MinnPost_2022-03-16">{{cite news |last=Callaghan |first=Peter |date=2022-03-16 |title=Minnesota Senate committee moves bill to retroactively cancel rent control measures passed by voters in Minneapolis, St. Paul |url=https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/2022/03/minnesota-senate-committee-moves-bill-to-retroactively-cancel-rent-control-measures-passed-by-voters-in-minneapolis-st-paul/ |newspaper=[[MinnPost]] |quote=Draheim also cited Census Bureau statistics that show requests for housing permits has fallen 80 percent in St. Paul since the passage of the referendum. In Minneapolis, which hasn't drafted an ordinance yet and where new buildings could be exempt from caps, permits are up 68 percent.}}</ref> Saint Paul's rent control initiative has since been significantly rolled back.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stokes |first=Kyle |date=2025-05-06 |title=St. Paul's rent control policy faces another rollback |url=https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/05/06/st-paul-rent-control-vote-new-construction |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=Axios |language=en}}</ref> In September 2022, the Saint Paul City Council amended the law to allow higher vacancy increases and exempt units built in the preceding or following 20 years from the increase cap.<ref name="Star Tribune, September 20th, 2022">{{cite news|last1=Galioto |first1=Katie |title=St. Paul leaders poised to limit controversial rent control policy |url=https://www.startribune.com/st-paul-leaders-poised-to-limit-controversial-rent-control-policy/600208717/?refresh=true |work=[[Star Tribune]] |access-date=September 27, 2022|date=September 20, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Pioneer Press, September 21, 2022">{{cite news |last1=Melo |first1=Frederick |title=St. Paul City Council amends rent control, exempts new construction with 5-2 vote |url=https://www.twincities.com/2022/09/21/st-paul-city-council-amends-rent-control-exempts-new-construction-exemption-with-5-2-vote/ |work=[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]] |access-date=September 27, 2022|date=September 21, 2022}}</ref> Since then, according to [[Zillow]] estimates, St. Paul's rents have grown at a pace similar to Minneapolis's, since the ordinance gives landlords several options to raise rents by more than 3%.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stokes |first=Kyle |date=2025-05-06 |title=St. Paul's rent control policy faces another rollback |url=https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/05/06/st-paul-rent-control-vote-new-construction |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=Axios |language=en}}</ref>