May 22 • 9am – 4:30pm • Iron Trail Motor Events Center in Virginia, Minnesota MHP is hosting a dynamic peer-to-peer session to facilitate strategic partnerships and encourage development in the Northeast Region of Minnesota. This all-day collaborative event will focus on the current climate for housing production in…
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Community Development Success Story: Chipola Florida Area Habitat for Humanity
MHP’s travels recently included Florida, to reconnect with a beneficiary of our technical assistance work, Chipola Area Habitat (CAH). CAH seeks to develop a 9-acre site known as the “Cook Property” for affordable housing, and we worked with them to select an architectural firm to help create a master…
Community Development Success Story: Lower Sioux Indian Community
“MHP helped Lower Sioux’s Planning & Grants Department identify a new funder for an upcoming rental construction project. They then sat down with us to teach us how to complete the intensive 15-year feasibility projections and they reviewed our proposal draft. “In the end, we…
Community Development Success Story: MHP Partners with Tennessee Outreach Project
Mountain T.O.P. (Tennessee Outreach Project) is a faith-based nonprofit that offers several programs to “meet the physical, spiritual, social, and emotional needs of all the people [they] encounter” including a food shelf and home repair. They are based in Grundy County, which has a poverty rate…
Take 5 with MHP’s Matt Encarnación
Take Five is MHP’s series that asks the same five questions of a variety of people intersecting with MHP, from staff to housing advocates! We are excited to welcome Research Intern Matt Encarnación. Matt Encarnación Q1. Who are you? Hello! My name is Matt Encarnacion (he/him) and…
MHP Continues Work Near Alaska’s Prince William Sound
MHP’s Community Development team and the Prince William Sound Economic Development District (PWSEDD) have recently began the process of collaborating with McKinley Research Group—an Alaska-based research firm—to conduct a regional housing needs assessment for the Prince William Sound region. The district includes cities of Cordova, Valdez,…
Take 5 with MHP’s Aaron Johnson
Take Five is MHP’s series that asks the same five questions of a variety of people intersecting with MHP, from staff to housing advocates! We are excited to welcome Community Development Associate Aaron Johnson. Aaron Johnson Q1. Who are you? Aaron Johnson (he/him), Community Development Associate…
MHP to Host Northwest Housing and Community Development Workshop
MHP is excited to host the regional workshop: Advancing Housing and Community Development in the Northwest Region of Minnesota on June 8, 2023. It will bring together leaders focused on housing solutions for the region and emphasize specific development opportunities in the region.
More than $2B for Housing and Homelessness this Legislative Session will Stabilize and Save MN Lives
As the legislative session ends, MHP is excited to join in celebrating a historic more than $2 billion housing and homelessness investment that creates new opportunities for thousands of Minnesota families to have access to safe, stable homes they can afford. “This landmark legislation is about so much more than…
The 2023 Legislative Session in Review!
In December of 2021, MHP convened partners and invited them to join us in asking the Minnesota Legislature to invest $2B in 2022. Gridlock had us come back in 2023, again asking for $2B. On Jan 11, 2023, MHP and our partners held a rally in the Capitol Rotunda.