MICAH News - October 2022 |
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This year's annual meeting will be held
6pm, December 19, 2022
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Policy Highlights &
Actions
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MINNESOTA ELECTIONS MATTER
PLEASE VOTE!
Please check out candidates responses to addressing homelessness and ensuring everyone has a safe, decent, accessible home that is affordable at their income.
The MHP and Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Candidate Questionnaire now has dozens of responses from candidates for the Minnesota Legislature. See if your candidate has completed a 2022 Candidate Questionnaire on Housing Issues.
It's not too late to email, tweet, and call candidates for office to urge them to share their views on housing by responding to the questionnaire.
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Find your legislative district and 2022 candidates via your sample ballot here.
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View maps of the new legislative districts here.
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Find your candidate’s contact information here.
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A sample script for asking candidates to complete the questionnaire is here.
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And also an Advocacy and Social Media Toolkit for candidate information.
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This year we have a match for the first $5,000 in donations!
November 1 begins the fundraising drive leading up to Give to the Max Day on the 17th.
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Did you miss our 2021 annual meeting in December? You can see the recording of the online event here. View the Bring America Home Now presentation, learn more about our policy, how we do what we do, and how far we've come over the last year. |
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Anoka Chapter - Virtual Bus Tour
On Thursday, October 13th, we held a virtual version of our community housing bus tour.
This year we 'visited’ and viewed presentations from:
Rep Connie Bernardy & Anoka County, Commissioner Mandy Meisner, Stepping Stone Emergency Housing, Family Promise in Anoka County, Matthew 25 Food Distribution, Substance Church Manna Market, & Park Plaza Cooperative.
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Housing For All Chapter - Virtual Bus Tour
On Thursday, September 22nd, we held a virtual version of our community housing bus tour.
This year we 'visited’ and viewed presentations from:
- Hennepin Commissioner Kevin Anderson
- CommonBond
- Sand Development, LLC
- Community Mediation & Restorative Services, Inc.
- Karen Jaeger, City of Maple Grove Council Member
- Age-Friendly Maple Grove
- Outreach Development Corp. (ODC)
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Minneapolis Community - Virtual Bus Tour
On Monday, September 19th, we held our first community housing virtual bus tour, co-hosted with Freedom from the Streets. With over 35 attendees, we made our way around the map to presentations & discussion at 'stops' including:
Hennepin County Child Protection, Rescue Now Services, Inc. - Shelters, & The Alliance.
The tour ended with updates on State and Federal Legislation from MICAH Executive Director, Sue Watlov Phillips.
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NorthEast Chapter - Virtual Bus Tour
Over 40 people registered, with 35 attending, for:
- updates on the St. Andrew's Community Resource Center family shelter in Hugo,
- Settled's new Sacred Settlement at St. Paul Mosaic Church (one of the tiny homes there was built by Trinity Lutheran in Stillwater),
- state and local updates and actions,
- the new Solid Ground/Beacon Interfaith collaboration at Gladstone Crossing - a new affordable housing project,
- and Twin Cities Habitat for Humanities' recent work on reducing racial inequities with mortgages targeted at foundational Black families.
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St. Paul Chapter - Virtual Bus Tour
We had a very timely bus tour, with Katherine Banbury, who filed a tenant complaint against Dominium Housing's excessive rent increase, and won.
All in all, 65 people attended our event as we also covered Settled's new Sacred Settlement at St. Paul Mosaic Church, state and local updates and actions, and the latest from Project Home and Ramsey County Board Chair Trista Matascastillo on 30% AMI housing.
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South Chapter - 2022 Virtual Bus Tour
On Wednesday, September 14th, we held this year's affordable housing tour online. Our host was Pat Eveslage, with a Faith Reflection by Tim Dulac, and 70 in attendance.
Our five stops were:
- Dakota County HCR: Shelter Development...
- 360 Communities: Preventing Evictions and Homelessness
- Outreach: Trusted Messengers Program
- Dakota Woodlands: Transitional Housing Services
- Center City Housing: Permanent Supportive Housing
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