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Tonia Brinston: Empowering Financial Freedom and Community Resilience

Tonia Brinston, a Certified Financial Educator and CEO of SLAP (Sounds Like A Plan) Financial Consulting LLC, works to interrupt generational poverty...

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Open Road Fund Helps Build Black Wealth

This blog was originally published in 2023, and was updated in June 2024. The Open Road Fund is open for applications from June 19 to July 19, 2024....

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Advancing Minnesota’s Ecosystem Through Pay Equity

This guest blog post by Tiffani Daniels is part two of a four-part blog series about our partnership with the Minnesota Business Coalition for Racial...

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Race and Housing Series: Racial Covenants

Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity has a longstanding relationship with Mapping Prejudice, a project based at the University of Minnesota libraries...

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Twin Cities Habitat Partners with MBCRE to Advance Racial Equity in Minnesota’s Ecosystem

Twin Cities Habitat Partners with MBCRE to Advance Racial Equity in Minnesota’s Ecosystem: An Exclusive Interview with Tiffani Daniels, Managing...

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Examining Minnesota's Current Homeownership Gap

A January 2024 article by NPR reported on a study that found housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters. When we focus on...

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Habitat Didn't Just Check a Box. They Changed.

Monisha Washington-Richard served on Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity’s Black Homeownership Advisory Council, which was made up of Habitat...

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Breaking Down Systemic Inequality in Voting and Housing for Black Americans

For generations, state and local governments systematically denied Black Americans access to educational resources and opportunities. It happened...

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Barriers Black Homebuyers Face

Black families in Minnesota face unique challenges when trying to buy a home. For generations, these barriers were overtly racist housing policies...

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Race and Housing Series: How Realtors Can Help Combat Historic Racism

Twin Cities Habitat believes it’s important to learn from our national and local history of racist housing policies as we build for the future. This...

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