Bloomington Homes for All is a diverse group of community members working to address Bloomington’s affordable housing crisis in concrete ways. Housing has long been treated as a commodity, used to exploit and divide our communities. We’re working together to build grassroots power and shape our future. We envision a Bloomington where tenants are able to enjoy what makes Bloomington great, regardless of their income level. As members of the Right to the City Alliance, we fight for tenants because we think everyone deserves access to housing, no matter the size of their paycheck—Housing is a Human Right!
Save Seminary Pointe Campaign
Seminary Pointe is a mixed-use residential and commercial hub, including four successful local businesses and 29 super-affordable apartment units with previous rental rates between $400–$700/month. Monroe County transferred ownership of Seminary Pointe to the Capital Improvement Board (CIB) for use in the convention center expansion project in April 2026. Tenants were informed that they must vacate in early July. After pressure from BH4A, tenancy was extended to August 31st, but demolition was threatened to follow as soon as possible.
BH4A advocates consulted with experts in our community to craft an alternative that would avoid demolition and address long-deferred maintenance of the properties. We presented our detailed business plans, which proposed swapping Seminary Pointe for other, already-vacant land, known as College Square, that was purchased for the convention center project by the city. The swap would not only place the hotel closer to the existing convention center, but also provide for permanent affordability at Seminary Pointe. Permanent affordability of both the housing and the land would be guaranteed by creating a cooperative management structure and transferring the land to a community land trust. Homes for All’s plans were sidelined by the CIB and RDC, both saying that the other body must be the one to initiate such a swap despite an interlocal agreement requiring good-faith negotiations.
Due to this failure of cooperation, demolition is still planned for the apartments even though it now turns out the convention center hotel will be built on parcels to the North of Seminary Pointe.** The so-called “extra land” that is Seminary Pointe Apartments has been offered to the hotel developer, Dora Hospitality, as an additional subsidy, to do with what they will.
At the same time, Dora Hospitality also submitted a proposal for another hotel and market-rate housing at the other property purchased for the convention center expansion, College Square. Rather than preserve any existing affordable housing, the CIB and RDC are giving a massive corporate giveaway to Dora Hospitality at the direct expense of affordability in Bloomington.
The contracts aren’t signed and the buildings are still standing, so we haven’t given up yet! We’re still fighting to keep Seminary Pointe Apartments affordable housing for generations to come. We’re working within & outside the established systems to demand our representatives and their appointees prioritize affordable housing & prove their accountability to the public.
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