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Article: On-site social services building community; At Seward Towers, renters benefit from management company's help in many ways.(HOMES)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- August 31, 1996
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The Seward Towers apartments are 21-story masonry buildings that stand like two cereal boxes nearly face to face at the east edge of downtown Minneapolis.
But the buildings' staid architecture doesn't speak to the difficulty and uncertainty of the lives of many of their residents, most of whom live alone on fixed or low incomes. Behind the stoic facades of the buildings there is a dynamic population the size of a small town, albeit a vertical one.
While a few Seward Towers residents are living in market-rate apartments, most of the 400 residents in each building live in Section 8 subsidized apartments with rents based on 30 percent of their income. And ...