MICAH works with congregations, faith leaders, and community partners to increase awareness and understanding the need for affordable housing. This creates advocates who fight for changes in public policies to encourage all communities to preserve and build affordable housing.
Submitting a resolution is simple and it’s a key step in helping ensure everyone has a decent, safe, accessible, and affordable home.
Download the forms.
Attend the party your caucus of your choice - this evening, Tuesday, February 25, at 7pm.
Introduce your resolution.
It gets voted on.
The St. Paul Chapter met February 20 to debrief the very successful legislative breakfast, receive and review the legislative binder for this year, and plan for the coming months.
On March 19, we will hold an advocacy training for the chapter, with Matt Traynor, MN Homeless Coalition.
Three goals have emerged as top priority:
1. Deepen relationships with communities of color, faith and otherwise.
2. Bring in more members.
3. Provide training on Housing 101.
MICAH is proud of the progress Freedom From the Streets has made in positively impacting peoples lives through improvements in services. Much remains to be done and MICAH will continue to support this important network.
Read MoreElderly and children are both increasing in homelessness and housing instability. Nationwide and locally, more and more people are calling for real systemic action on housing.
MICAH’s annual NE Chapter Legislative Breakfast will be the morning of Tuesday January 12th at 7:30 AM at Ascension Episcopal Church in Stillwater, 214 3rd Street North.
Read MoreThe Affordable Housing Coalition (AHC) will meet on Dec. 5th at 8:30 – 10:30 am for the combined Nov./Dec. AHC meeting due to the holidays. We will have a special topic and different location for this meeting.
Topic: Identifying Issues and Solutions to Federal Policies and Programmatic Rules that Most Impact Persons Experiencing Homelessness
