News & Events

The Metropolitan Council’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority has earned the top rating for performance from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the 20^th consecutive year.

More than 50 soldiers from the 407th Civil Affairs Battalion, United States Army Reserve, toured the Metropolitan Council’s Seneca Water Resource Recovery Facility.

The Metropolitan Council has approved a comprehensive transportation funding package.

In December 2023, the Metropolitan Council hired its first full-time tribal liaison and Native relations coordinator, Allison Waukau, Menominee/Navajo.

The Metropolitan Council has approved a 5.6% increase in the overall regional municipal wastewater charge for 2025.

Regional parks and trails in the seven-county metro region continue to be hugely popular, seeing 69.4 million visits in 2023.

The population of the seven-county Twin Cities region is growing more slowly in the 2020s than it did in the previous decade, but population continues to increase.

Hennepin County and the four cities on the route of the proposed METRO Blue Line Extension are being asked to review the preliminary design plans of the light rail transit project.   

The Metropolitan Council has awarded four Livable Communities grants totaling nearly $1.5 million for assessing and cleaning up contaminated land for redevelopment.

$4 million will help cities remove barriers to creating affordable housing choices 

The Met Council is utilizing art to help the community engage in policymaking for the future.

In June, the Metropolitan Council awarded 10 grants totaling $1.1 million to support cities as they prepare for development or create local policies that influence physical development.

The Met Council has awarded a total of $1.1 million in grants to support changes that reduce the amount of water being pumped from underground aquifers and surface waters as the region grows.

The Met Council is committed to reducing emissions and safeguarding our clean air and water.