NorthEast Suburban MICAH Chapter – Annual Legislative Breakfast

A recent study of housing affordability computed the average wage necessary to afford a 2 bedroom home in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area is $22.00 an hour. Elderly 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.

Our event gives voters a chance to hear from their elected officials what they are doing about the lack of affordable housing and what they are doing to reduce homelessness. We will first hear the story of someone who is near to or experiencing homelessness and what their struggle is like. Then we will have a panel discussion by MICAH and elected officials from a variety of cities and levels of government, to give an overview of what the housing situation is like. After that we will break into discussion tables by legislative district to give people an even more direct connection to their political representatives.

MICAH is committed to a metropolitan area where everyone, without exception, has a safe, decent, accessible, and affordable home. Fifty five years ago Dr Martin Luther King said “the time has come for an all-out world war against poverty… Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for “the least of these”… If we feel this as a profound moral fact, we cannot be content to see men hungry, to see men victimized with starvation and ill health when we have the means to help them.”

We have the means. We need the political will. Together we can build that.

If you can attend RSVP to John Slade at slade@micah.org or 651-491-2084