Charles R. Warner ’63

Charles R. Warner ’63, of Minneapolis; Nov. 8. He worked at the U.S. Housing and Urban Development office in Chicago for two years before moving to the Minneapolis HUD office. Active in providing affordable housing in Minneapolis for more than four decades, he was the founder of Home Line, a statewide hotline for tenants dealing with landlord troubles that received thousands of calls over its 25 years in service. He also founded the Minnesota Housing Partnership, a nonprofit that worked for 30 years to grow and finance affordable housing statewide. In 1973 he was instrumental in organizing tenants behind the Minnesota Supreme Court decision permitting tenants to withhold rent if landlords failed to keep buildings up to code. After leaving HUD in the 1980s, he organized Minnesota’s major effort to preserve federally subsidized housing complexes. He was a U.S. Army veteran and enjoyed woodworking.