Funding to Empower Rural, Native, and Manufactured Home Communities MHP has received two transformative grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), totaling more than $22 million. These funds will amplify MHP’s capacity-building work with rural, Native, and manufactured home communities, addressing critical housing and community…
General News
MHP Concludes Work with Santo Domingo Tribal Housing Authority
As of December 1, 2024, MHP staff has begun the closeout process for their partnership with the Santo Domingo Tribal Authority (SDTHA). The Santo Domingo Pueblo, known as Khe-wa to its residents, is located between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, along the Rio Grande. Recognized for its rich traditions,…
MHP visits the Yankton Sioux Housing Authority in South Dakota
MHP Community Development staff recently visited the Yankton Sioux Housing Authority, as part of their on-going work with the Yankton Sioux Tribal Nation. MHP staff and the project team conducted team building sessions and process mapping to support the Housing Authority as they explore opportunities enhance program operations. Together, the…
Project Highlight: Buckeye Ridge Habitat for Humanity – Marion, OH
Starting in the spring of this year, MHP staff began providing community development technical assistance to Buckeye Ridge Habitat for Humanity in Marion, Ohio. This Habitat is a dynamic social service and rural housing nonprofit organization that develops/rehabilitates affordable homes for families in four rural counties of Ohio, just…
Housing Narrative Change Project / Home Stories
A coalition of organizations across the state are collaborating with the Housing Narrative Lab (HNL), a national communications and research hub in undertaking a narrative change project to reframe how Minnesotans talk about housing. The narrative will inform and persuade lawmakers, nonprofits and businesses, the media, and everyday neighbors about…
2024 Legislative Session Wrap-Up Happy Hour
Thank you for joining MHP and Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota at Lake Monster Brewing Co. as we recognized, celebrated, and toasted the hard work done by housing champions and lawmakers during the 2024 Legislative Session.
Building and Development Summit for Northeast Minnesota
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…
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…