Family Housing Fund

Expand opportunities - the fund aims to improve housing stability, reduce evictions and displacement, improve housing choice, and ensure access to quality, affordable homes. To accomplish this, the fund leads and coordinates activities to systematically address threats to housing stability and choice, in partnership with public and private partners. This includes convening partners across private, nonprofit, and public sectors to develop strategies for expanding access to emergency financial assistance, identify and address the impacts of corporate-owned single-family rental homes, disrupt discriminatory tenant screening practices, and improve the quality of the housing stock across the twin cities region.

Activate more housing champions - the fund increases public will for housing solutions by supporting advocacy efforts, producing and publishing research, and elevating housing success stories through its strategic communications. The fund also strengthens the local ecosystem of housing organizations and resources by providing support to community-based partner organizations. In 2024, the fund published four reports of research and key learnings and hosted four virtual events with the public to share housing learnings.

Increase supply-this program area aims to increase housing choice and affordability by expanding new approaches to housing development and preservation in the twin cities region. The fund informs local policy throughout the region to preserve and produce housing, while also exploring and supporting new tools for expanding the supply of quality, affordable homes. In 2024, the fund helped convene a coalition of nonprofit housing providers to explore current threats facing the affordable housing sector and identify and amplify potential solutions for bringing the sector back to health.