This multi-million-dollar Lake of the Isles mansion belongs to Tom Hoch, former Chair of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA). In the 1990s, Hoch was Deputy Director of MPHA and oversaw the demolition of the Sumner-Glenwood Neighborhood in North Minneapolis —once the largest Section 9 public housing community in Minneapolis and the childhood home of Prince.

After leaving MPHA, Hoch privatized the public theaters in downtown Minneapolis as their CEO. He later ran for mayor in 2018. In 2022, Mayor Jacob Frey appointed him as MPHA Chair after Frey’s previous appointee was indicted for fraud. Frey also hired Greg Russ to demolish and privatize all of Section 9 single-family homes, public housing known as scattered sites for low-income large families, in 2019. 

From December 2024 to July 2025, Hoch directed MPHA Executive Director Abdi Warsame to hold monthly meetings inside Glendale Townhomes, falsely claiming that Glendale is not historic to scare and warn families they will be displaced because MPHA plans to demolish Glendale Townhomes. #StopDisplacement #PeopleOverProfit #StopDisplacement #DefendSec9PublicHousing #GlendaleIsHistoric

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