Affordable housing and Habitat for Humanity builds in particular have become a front line in the fight over the future of gas. The organization has faced criticism in other communities for accepting fossil fuel industry money.
The scale of the Twin Cities project is what makes it exciting, according to St. Paul's chief resilience officer Russ Stark. We've had plenty of motivated folks build their own all-electric homes, but they're one-offs.
Port Authority President and CEO Todd Hurley said his organization bought the property in 2019. When no private buyers expressed interest in the property, the Port Authority bought it for $10 million.
I think it's fair to say that those pieces couldn't have all come together without either a much bigger public investment or the Inflation Reduction Act, which ended up being that big public investment.
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