Thank you to those who attended, Housing on the Ballot: Engaging Candidates in 2024, hosted by MHP in collaboration with the Our Future Starts at Home campaign. We were thankful to be joined by Bailey Sutter of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, Nicholas Strunk of the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State, and Fadumo Mohamed of Ayada Leads.
Links to the variety of resources used or referenced by presenters are now available!
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.
The ERASE Minnesota Campaign convened to share what passed this legislative session relating to emergency rental assistance and what is still on the “to do” list for the future. Featuring legislative updates, a renter panel, and updates from the ERASE co-conveners HJC, ACER, and MHP.
Links of the approved legislation on housing funding and policy from the 2024 Legislature are now available: housing funding spreadsheet, final housing finance and policy language (HF5247, Article 14-15), and a description of changes to landlord-tenant law.
A recording of the event and chat questions are now available.
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 the heart of the Iron Range, the Tribal Nations sharing that geography, and surrounding communities. Seeking to build on regional momentum for housing activity, MHP will convene community representatives, builders, developers, and other valuable stakeholders to identify and address development challenges and work together towards practical solutions. Community representatives and stakeholders will have the opportunity to present a development project.
Please use this link to submit a project proposal: https://forms.gle/6ATFdZr4RisgAoPo8
Generously supported by St. Louis County and Minnesota Department of Iron Range Resources & Rehabilitation.
Rebeka Alemayehu joined MHP earlier this spring as a policy intern through the Capitol Pathways program! Rebeka sat down with us and answered our 5 questions:
Q1. What is your name and title?
My name is Rebeka Alemayehu (She/Her/Hers), and I am a part of the Capital Pathways program and have been chosen to work with the Minnesota Housing Partnership.
Q2. What attracted you to working with MHP?
Last summer, I was a part of the Urban School program and got the opportunity to Intern at the Ward 9 office last Summer and Fall. One of Ward 9’s top priorities is housing, and during my time interning, I learned more about housing and homelessness. The experience I had during that time was a huge reason why I wanted to work with MHP, and I was so very excited to hear that I got matched back. MHP is all about working to create equitable housing through effective research-based solutions, and I want to be a part of the great change MHP is making in the community.
Q3. What’s a challenge in the field of housing right now?
One challenge is zoning. There are zoning laws that are hindering more housing from being built. During this session, I got to spend time learning about the “missing middle” bill authored by Rep. Alicia “Liish” Kozlowski, which is trying to help create more housing.
Q4. Is there a book by your bed, and what is it?
SA book that I have just started reading is Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. This book is about the problems low-income renters face in Milwaukee. It is very eye-opening to read stories of people experiencing hardship and evictions.
Q5. Who is your superhero?
My Uncle is definitely one of my superheroes. He loves learning about politics and issues in our society and motivates me to do so as well. It’s a tradition to meet up once every couple of weeks and chat about all things politics.
Look out for more Take 5 profiles coming soon!
Thank you for attending our recent event, the Mid-Session Legislative Update. Thank you to our presenters Michael Dahl of HOME Line, and Alysen Nesse of Hylden Advocacy & Law. We were also thankful to be joined by lawmakers Minnesota House Housing Committee Chair Rep. Michael Howard (51A – DFL), and Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention Committee Chair Sen. Lindsey Port (55 – DFL).
A recording of the event, slide deck, and chat questions are now available.
Thank you to those who joined us on February 8th as we previewed Minnesota’s 2024 Legislative Session. Panelists Rep. Esther Agbaje (DFL – 59B), Jeff Hayden, Sen. Karin Housley (R – 33), and Brian McDaniel granted us a wealth of insights and provided some predictions for new session set to kick off this week.
If you enjoyed this event and want to support MHP’s programming of research, advocacy, and community development, please make an individual contribution by clicking this link.
On February 6th, MHP hosted a webinar, Building for the Future: Competitive Applications for HUD’s Green and Resilient Retrofit Program to provide information about HUD’s Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP) and explore what makes a successful GRRP application. A recording of the event, and slide deck are now available. See HUD’s recently updated GRRP landing page.
Thank you for participating in our virtual event on January 29th, Putting Research into Practice. This was the final installment in our four-part narrative change webinar series. All resources relating to the statewide housing narrative change project are available on MHP’s Narrative Change Project webpage.
In this webinar the Housing Narrative Lab provided message guidance and examples of how to use the findings from the research into your policies, campaigns, strategic communications, and content creation.