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Sindy Mau has been work with people experiencing homelessness for years. Here are her suggestions of how everyone — individuals, employers, landlords, and social service agents — can help resolve the housing crisis in small but big ways.
As a member of the youth delegation connecting with legislators this year, we are recommending development of a pilot program to identify, renovate, and repurpose vacant buildings into affordable housing for youth, with dedicated funding allocated in the next state budget cycle.
To create effective solutions, Hood says, “community-based organizations have to be part of the conversation, research, government, and client voices. If all members are not at the table then it won’t work.”
In the recent past our society has allocated the problem of homelessness to the government. But just like any other institution, there are limits to what they can provide.
“Most of us think of the guy on the corner [when we think of the homeless],” says Wendy Wiegmann the Simpson Shelter’s Director of Programs. “But most are children and women with children.” Children are 35 percent of the homeless in Minnesota according to the Wilder Foundations’ most recent Homeless Study. Their research shows that […]
The conversations we can have with each other are not about telling people what to think, but by creating more places to think together. More opportunities to explore the essential ingredients of collective health and personal fulfillment, and to ask what we owe one another as neighbors and citizens. This feels more consequential to me than the horse races, outrage, and gossip that so often define the media landscape.
The question I wish people would ask is not, “Why did you go back?” It is: “What was missing that would have made it possible for you and your children to stay safely gone?” … The system fails survivors when it only recognizes danger at the moment of crisis. Safety has to last longer than the emergency.
“By 16, I was sleeping in my own truck. When I turned 18, I bounced between my car, my grandfather’s house, and unstable rentals.”
At the end of 2025, Silver received notice from her care agency that 95 percent of the services her agency bills for were suspended. After working to build an independent life, find meaningful work, and establish a home in a community she loves, her right to a safe, self-directed life is now directly jeopardized.
Currently there are multiple campaigns Minnesotans can get involved with related to housing: Yes to Homes, and Our Future Starts at Home. There also are popular state housing tax credits, students building affordable houses, community land trusts, and attempts to reduce red tape.
Volunteers Needed for Minneapolis Homeless Peace House offers lunch, conversation, and practical services for people experiencing homelessness in Minneapolis. Regina joined the Peace House community around 2013. Health and substance use issues impacted her, but she connected there with peers and volunteers. She was encouraged to attend a residential treatment program in Rochester and said […]
“Ownership” is a troublesome word in this country. In so many ways, the United States has been shaped for 250 years by the pursuit of possession — of land, of resources, of wealth, even of power over one another. As one recent example, private equity has bought up properties and land for profit over people, […]
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