Beth Kodluboy
Beth Kodluboy
Executive Director
Email: bethk@homelinemn.org
Extension: x107
Since June of 2004, Beth has served as HOME Line’s Executive Director. She has led the organization and been responsible for all fundraising and promotion of HOME Line’s three major Tenant Programs, Organizing, Hotline, and Policy Advocacy. With 9 employees, and over 100 current volunteers, HOME Line has grown into the model example of a Tenant hotline and advocacy work throughout the country.
Beth currently serves on the board of the Rondo Community Land Trust, and as Vice President the Housing Preservation Project, and has served on the boards for the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability and the Powderhorn Neighborhood Association.
As HOME Line’s Lead Tenant Organizer from 1992 until becoming Executive Director, Beth managed and built HOME Line’s organizing program helping HOME Line become a leader nationwide in organizing residents to not only preserve their own federally subsidized housing but also to involve these tenants in advocacy and civic engagement at the local, federal and state level.
She helped;
- Organize tenants in low and subsidized apartment complexes and developed leadership to preserve their affordable housing, get repairs made, and stop bad management practices.
- Create an inventory of all the federally assisted privately owned housing in Minnesota into one database, identifying properties at risk for loss of affordability.
- Create, prepare and coordinate calls, a database, and results of an annual Section 8 survey to determine landlords acceptance of Section 8 Vouchers in the market Place for 15 consecutive years.
- Establish training materials and work with VISTA program to train new organizers to preserve federally assisted housing.
- Supervise and coordinate strategies of staff organizers and VISTA volunteers to organize in buildings and in social actions
- Work with tenants to produce and publish tenant newsletter to residents in at-risk buildings
- Develop leadership to work on resolving issues beyond their own complexes and work in area coalitions to change housing policy at the local, state, and federal level. This work resulted in state laws that;
-Require one year notice before owners terminate federal subsidies
-Created a $10 million annual appropriation for preserving affordable housing
-Establish the right to Privacy, establishing legal standards for landlords entering an apartment
-Remove the 4d tax credit incentive for owners who terminated federal subsidies. - Worked with tenants to prevent the passage of legislation that would have given tenant screening companies rights beyond the Fair Credit Reporting Act
- On the Federal level, worked with tenants to pass a federal notice statute before owners can terminate federal subsidies.
In 1990 Beth earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts. During college, Beth worked five legislative sessions in the Minnesota Senate, as a page and then Committee Clerk for the Health and Human Services policy and finance committees.
When the legislature was not in session, Beth worked for the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy, was an active member in the DFL party holding many numerous positions at the precinct, Senate District, Congressional District and State level. At 20, Beth chaired the state DFL Credential Committee, the youngest chair to ever serve at that level, helped start the Minnesota Young DFL, became it’s first Vice President and served as a delegate to the Young Democrats National Convention. In addition, Beth worked full time on three separate political campaigns while in college, John Dooley for State Auditor, Dave Carlson for Congress, and Dick Gephardt for President.
