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The Family Housing Fund is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, sustainable homes to families and children in the Twin Cities metropolitan area through ongoing partnerships with the public and private sector.

Learn more about the Family Housing Fund and what we do.

When Investors Buy Up the Neighborhood
May 2010

A new PolicyLink report, funded by the Family Housing Fund and the Northwest Area Foundation, on strategies to prevent investor ownership from causing neighborhood decline. Click here for more information.

Currie Avenue Partnership to Help the Homeless
December 2009

The Currie Avenue Partnership is a collaboration between the downtown business council, downtown faith congregations, and the Minneapolis and Hennepin County governments to hire ten case managers to house a total of 150 individuals experiencing homelessness.  Donations should be made to the Family Housing Fund, Suite 1650, 801 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55402 or online through Network for Good (please designate CAP with your donation.) To learn more, click here to read a Star Tribune feature on the Currie Avenue Partnership or visit www.headinghomeminnesota.org/hennepin/

Rethinking Housing: A Continuing Conversation to Identify and Develop Innovation in Buildings, Places, and Systems throughout the Twin Cities Region
November 2009

Click here to join the online discussion group to help shape Twin Cities regional housing efforts.

Twin Cities Community Land Bank Newly Established
September 2009

The Family Housing Fund has created the land bank as an innovative tool to spur land acquisition and site control to meet the changing housing needs in Twin Cities neighborhoods. Click here to learn more.

Heading Home Minnesota
Partners Fund

Open Application Process
The Heading Home Minnesota Partners Fund is a flexible pool of
private funds intended to support implementation of Minnesota’s Business Plan to End Long-Term Homelessness.
Application Guidelines(.pdf)

A new section of the web site associated with the soul, heart, intuition, art, and the humanities of affordable housing. It features the "Home Sweet Home Exhibit" and new essays and poetry on affordable housing.