ABOUT US

Preservation Housing Trust of Minnesota is a non-profit organization formed in 2021. Our mission is to preserve, restore, develop, stabilize and rehabilitate affordable housing solutions in the state of Minnesota.

501(c)(3)

Preservation Housing Trust of Minnesota is recognized as a public, non-profit charity organization by the Internal Revenue Service in compliance with Internal Revenue Code (IRC) 501(c)(3).

Preservation

We focus on preserving existing affordable housing – in most situations, these properties are qualified recipients of Section 42 Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC).

Community Building

We will continue to foster strong and supportive communities, with an emphasis on access to education, transportation, and other supportive community services.

Board of Directors

Our board members are accomplished private businesspeople, long term affordable housing and healthcare executives, and formal executive level Federal HUD director level staff – all with long track records of non-profit and corporate leadership roles in the state of Minnesota.

Shawn Huckelby

Mr. Huckleby was the long time Deputy Director of the Minneapolis Office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and also served as the Acting Director of the HUD offices in Minneapolis, Detroit, and Springfield, Illinois.

Shawn served as Vice President of the Twin Cities Community Land Bank, Director of the Emerging Markets Homeownership Initiative and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Affordable Housing Connections. Previously, he served on the boards of the Local Initiative Support Corporation, Hallie Q. Brown Center, the Family Housing Fund, Minnesota Rural Partners, and Support Our Schools.

Richard Hutsell

Mr. Hutsell is a recognized leader in housing management and development having managed cumulative portfolios of over 150 properties located throughout the Midwest with assets in excess of one billion dollars and annual operating budgets of over 100 million. He is a state licensed Real Estate Broker, has a skilled background in commercial /residential brokerage and acquisition, and property appraisal. Mr. Hutsell is also a principal in the Minneapolis based development firm of MDR Development LLC. In the last five years they have completed several development deals and syndications of multi- family assets. The completed projects have a value in excess of 200 million dollars.

Mr. Hutsell is also the founder and CEO of Premier Management, a full service real estate company based in Minnesota. He has a 25 year proven track record of the successful ownership, management and development of multi-family real estate.

Hans Hage

Hans has held executive, board, senior leadership, and technology positions in the well-being, healthcare, consumer device, non-profit housing, cloud storage and data security industries. Hans currently serves as Chief Product Officer, Consumer Operations at the largest health insurer in the United States, UnitedHealthcare. Previously, hans held the position of Senior Vice President of Provider Digital Transformation at UnitedHealth Group, SVP of Product and Innovation at StayWell (sold to Merck and Co. in 2016, now WebMD) and is the founder of Chairbridge, a St. Paul based consulting firm with broad expertise across a variety of markets, industries, and disciplines.