When all people have access to stable housing, our communities are stronger and healthier. Our collective action and investment through our public policy should work toward ensuring all people have a home.
Bring It Home, MN
In Minnesota we care for one another. We can have a state where no child goes to bed worried if they will be evicted and have to move schools again. This is possible.
It’s time to Bring It Home, MN.
There is a simple and effective policy that we know works. Bring It Home, MN is a campaign to create a Minnesota Rent Subsidy program, which would allow all low-income renters the ability to pay only 30% of their income to rent.
Read more on why Bring It Home, MN works for all of us.
Unlock The Metro
The Met Council has the keys to unlock deeply affordable housing in suburban communities: project-based vouchers (PBVs).
We have an affordable housing crisis in the suburbs which contributes to the persistent housing disparities that plague the greater metro area.
The Met Council has the power and responsibility to address this problem by the strategic deployment of project-based vouchers.
Beacon is calling on the Met Council to pass a 30-for-30 project based voucher policy that:
1. Utilizes 30% of Met Council vouchers as PBVs for 30% AMI housing in areas where the poverty rate is 20% or less, typically suburban communities.
2. Makes Met Council PBVs available across the whole 7-county metro region, including communities that have their own housing authority.
3. Coordinates PBV awards with the MN Housing capital funding cycle to expedite the creation of new deeply affordable housing, instead of impeding it.
Click here to learn more about the Unlock the Metro campaign. And click here to read our case statement.
The Family Supportive Housing Act
Nearly 3,400 Minnesota families with children experience the trauma of homelessness on any given night. This can begin a cycle of homelessness that passes on through generations.
Family supportive housing provides on-site specialized services for both parents and children in secure, non-time limited housing. Research shows that Family Supportive Housing is the most dignified and effective way to break the cycle and help families at-risk achieve housing stability across generations.
Click here to read more about the Family Supportive Housing Act and learn how it will help get us closer to our shared vision that all people have a home.