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Initiatives

Overview

These campaigns and coalitions reflect the many ways communities across Minnesota are organizing for housing justice—from tenant protections and anti-displacement work to manufactured housing preservation and long-term investments in affordable homes. Read more below about the partnerships, policies, and grassroots efforts shaping a more stable and equitable future for renters, homeowners, and communities.

Initiatives

Our mission is to work in coalition to build community-based power that ensures immigrant/refugee, low-wealth and Black, Indigenous, BIPOC communities along the Blue Line Extension Corridor are able to stay in their homes and businesses, create wealth and economic development, and enhance their well-being and access to opportunity throughout the region.

Statewide campaign striving to ensure that all qualifying Minnesotans receive rent support—a proven, effective way to prevent homelessness.

Equity In Place, convened by the Alliance, is a coalition of housing justice organizations working towards statewide tenant protections. EIP was pivotal in winning Right to Organize in 2024, a policy that protects residents’ ability to unionize and went into effect in 2025. EIP’s principal focus is Right to Renew on a statewide level.

The Minnesota ERASE Campaign (End Rental Arrears and Stop Evictions) is an effort to ensure that the historic aid enacted by Congress reaches the lowest-income and most marginalized renters it is intended to help. We are working to eliminate rental indebtedness caused by the pandemic, prevent evictions, and create support for long term policy changes to end housing instability and homelessness.

HJL is a coalition of housing justice organizations focused on Minneapolis-level systems change. HJL continues to push towards Tenant Opportunity to Purchase (TOPA) and Right to Renew (also known as Just Cause) renter protections. Beyond the policy focus, HJL works to build up tenant and community leadership and support tenant associations across the city.

Protect manufactured homeowners from exploitation
and preserve manufactured housing as a to affordable
homeownership

Our Future Starts at Home is driving the movement for a constitutional amendment for ongoing funding to ensure that all Minnesotans have a place to call home.

We seek to amend the Minnesota Human Rights Act to clarify that housing discrimination based on a person’s source of income is illegal.

More Homes, More Choices, Lower Costs.