Join the Our Future Starts at Home Campaign! |
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In coalition, we are launching Our Future Starts at Home, a statewide housing campaign focused on passing a constitutional amendment for housing, for dedicated, ongoing revenue crucial to ensuring we all have a place to call home. |
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Revenue would go into three funds, the Homeownership Opportunity Fund, the Rental Opportunity Fund, and the Household and Community Stability Fund. The funds are flexible to include innovative concepts as well as existing programs, funds, and financing. Each fund will have a council (with lived experience and grassroots organizations) to make budget and policy recommendations to the Governor and Legislature.
Read more about the policy proposal here, endorse the constitutional amendment for housing, and let us know how you’d like to be involved! We are pleased that the Homes for All MN coalition has endorsed!
OurHomesMN.org • @Ourhomesmn
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Capitol Housing Rally Starts the Legislative Session with Home |
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Yesterday, a Capitol Rotunda packed with advocates saw a rousing rally for housing to launch the session. Government leaders called for housing investment, including Governor Tim Walz, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman, Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic, Minnesota Housing Commissioner Jennifer Ho, House Majority Leader Jamie Long, Senator Lindsey Port, Representative Michael Howard, and Hennepin County Commissioner Irene Fernando.
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Left: Lieutenant Gov Peggy Flanagan: "It’s clear and urgent: Minnesotans across the state deserve a safe home at a price they can afford – and with our historic surplus, we can get it done. |
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We also heard from people with the lived experience of struggling with housing, including Patrice Kunesh of the Native American Rights Fund and MHP board member, who realized the value of housing stability when she found herself living in public housing with her two young daughters – which was neither safe nor stable. Kunesh decried the disparities in housing in Minnesota, where Native people account for 8 percent of Minnesota’s homeless adult population, though they represent about 2% of the population, the largest disparity of any group in the state. She ended with a call for $2B for housing this year and housing on the ballot in 2024!
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