Housing units permitted, Saint Paul and Minneapolis, 2019 to 2025
Published by the Twin Cities Renter Guide, twincitiesrenterguide.com.
Last updated: Oct. 24, 2026

DESCRIPTION
The values behind the chart "Permits fell about 70% in both cities, 2023 to 2025" on the Protect renters or build more? card, plus the extra years in the table below it.

SOURCES
1. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "Housing policies in Saint Paul yield mixed results, data and developers say" (June 2026), https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2026/housing-policies-in-saint-paul-yield-mixed-results-data-and-developers-say
   Saint Paul figures. Retrieved: not recorded; compiled Oct. 17, 2026 (file date of our earliest working copy holding the figures).
2. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "Minneapolis 2040 plan indicators point to stable rents, stalled development" (Oct. 2026), https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2026/minneapolis-2040-plan-indicators-point-to-stable-rents-stalled-development
   Minneapolis figures. Retrieved: not recorded; compiled Oct. 17, 2026 (file date).

METHOD
Figures were copied from the two articles. Percent change on the page is (later year minus earlier year) divided by earlier year. From 2023 to 2025: Saint Paul (1,204 to 357) fell about 70%; Minneapolis (1,043 to 300) about 71%.

NOT THE SAME MEASURE
Saint Paul's series counts all housing units permitted. Minneapolis's counts units in buildings of five or more. Both come from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, but they count different things, so compare the direction and size of change, not the levels.

COLUMNS
See housing-permits-chart-dictionary.csv.

LIMITS
2020 to 2022 aren't plotted; the article gives Saint Paul 1,169 in 2022 and over 2,000 a year in 2020 and 2021, and we have no Minneapolis figures for those years. Saint Paul 2019 isn't reported. We haven't kept copies of the articles; they're linked above.