Overview: Bimosedaa
Supportive housing for individuals in downtown Minneapolis
“Let’s walk together!”
Bimosedaa is 48 apartment homes in downtown Minneapolis. Culturally relevant and responsive on-site support are tailored to members of the Native community who have moved out of homelessness.
The Essentials
- 48 high-quality, well-managed apartment homes for individuals
- Culturally relevant support services tailored toward members of the Native community
- Created through a partnership with the Red Lake Nation.
- Individualized, culturally relevant on-site support services
- Bimosedaa is an Ojibwe word that translates into English as ‘Let’s walk together’.
- Supportive services through Avivo help residents focus on vocation, education, health, and community connection and offer residents space to consider what the next steps might look like for them.
Why Downtown Minneapolis?
- Easy access to multiple bus routes and both the Green and Blue light rail lines.
- Excellent shopping, recreation, entertainment, and civic engagement options.
- Enriches the vision of a vibrant, diverse, forward-looking downtown that welcomes everyone.
Connected Stories:
-Inside Supportive Housing at Bimosedaa
-Supporting Bimosedaa Residents and Showing Up for Home
-Spotlight in the Sahan Journal
Click here to download and print the Bimosedaa building overview.
Supportive Housing in Action: Joseph Maxwell’s Story
Joseph Maxwell lived in his car and shelters the last six years, always staying alert for danger even as he slept. Noise from other shelter guests and staff opening and shutting doors kept him awake at night. Staff checked on him every three hours at one shelter.
But that has all changed recently. Maxwell was one of the first residents to move into Bimosedaa.
“Here, I fall right in a deep sleep,” said Maxwell, who moved into the building last December. “For the first week I was here, I didn’t hear anything. I caught up on all my sleep just from not being alerted.”
Read more in the Sahan Journal.
