Eric Hauge
Eric Hauge
Lead Tenant Organizer
Email: erich@homelinemn.org
Extension: x119
Eric Hauge is the Lead Tenant Organizer at HOME Line. Eric has been with HOME Line through Americorps VISTA and as a staff member since 2003, taking the role of Lead Tenant Organizer in 2006.
Eric joined HOME Line after obtaining his B.A. in Political Science and Peace Studies from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2003. Alongside his studies, he served as the Commentary Editor of the weekly college newspaper and organized a campaign to preserve the Peace Studies Department. Eric obtained a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the Humphrey Institute in 2009. His research at the Humphrey Institute involved analyzing Twin Cities metropolitan regional approaches to affordable housing preservation, production, and comprehensive planning. He assisted in the authoring and publication of A Vision for the Next Decade: Planning for Affordable Housing in the Twin Cities Metro.
At HOME Line, Eric has been involved in numerous organizing campaigns to improve housing conditions throughout Minnesota, including: long-term preservation of affordable housing (Section 8, USDA Rural Development, etc.), improvement and repair of physical housing conditions and emergency substandard housing situations, and efforts to invoke and strengthen tenant rights and protections. Eric has been active engaging tenants and lobbying for stronger affordable housing programs & tenants rights on a local, state and federal level. Eric has also assisted with the research and publication of HOME Line’s annual Section 8 Voucher Survey since 2003.
In addition to his regular duties organizing and engaging low-income residents to influence their housing opportunities, he has recently spoken at conferences on a number of topics, including:
- “We Don’t Take Section 8” – Does it Violate the Minnesota Human Rights Act? (CLE)
Minnesota Department of Human Rights Human Rights Day. December 4, 2009. St. Paul, MN.
- Preservation Networks: Collaborative Efforts to Preserve Affordable Housing
National Low Income Housing Coalition Annual Policy Conference. April 21, 2009. Washington, D.C.
