#ThankfulThursday | Affordable Housing Advocates
For today’s #ThankfulThursday post, we wanted to recognize all the people that are lending their voice and helping Habitat in educating policy...
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Becky Engen : 2:14 PM on July 8, 2014
The Habitat Heroes are proof that heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Armed only with facts about the communal benefits of investing in affordable housing, and dressed in campy (but cool) green superhero T-shirts, our advocates descended on the Capitol and helped convince lawmakers to approve $100M in bonds directed towards housing projects. Literally thousands of Minnesota families will benefit from this great win. The money will mean fewer homeless families, safer apartment buildings, more construction jobs, and better neighborhoods filled with stable homeowners.
Thank you to everyone who helped get this done!
Even though the $100M is the largest total Minnesota lawmakers have ever decided to invest in the area of affordable housing (they approved $37.5M in 2012), it won't address all the challenges lower-income Minnesotans face. The Minnesota Housing Finance Agency will be responsible for assigning $80M worth of the funds but it got requests totaling more than $233M. So there's still plenty of work to do in the future. Don't believe us? Check out these 10 alarming Minnesota housing stats.
All of this information, and a whole bunch more is available on the Minnesota Housing Partnership website.
We need more Housing Heroes! If you can type, talk or text you can have your voice heard and be a part of advocating for affordable housing and Minnesota families. Start by simply signing a petition.
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