St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter came into office in 2018 bullish on building multi-family housing at sites such as Highland Bridge, where other candidates called for adding single-family properties. He later threw his support, initially, to rent control, a voter-approved ordinance that he’s since convinced the city council to repeal for housing built after 2004.

His reasoning? A major citywide slowdown in new housing construction. Given high interest rates, rising construction costs, post-pandemic demographic changes like remote work and other factors dogging the mayor’s progressive agenda, Carter is seeking re-election to a third term well aware that the past eight years have been difficult ones for the city, and for the nation.

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