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.
Washington County is making further steps along the road to permanent emergency housing for single adults. Several months ago, the County Board authorized spending $6 million in American Rescue Plan funds to buy and renovate a building for use as a shelter. “Plan A” is buying a hotel; the County had been using COVID funds to house homeless people in hotels over the last few years.
The process is slow, but moving forward!
Read MoreThe NorthEast Suburban Chapter’s legislative breakfast focused on three issues – the Emergency Homeless shelter in Washington County, the new Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) money that will come forward (thank you for raising taxes for affordable housing!) and the Lead Safe Home bill at the State Legislature. We had nearly 50 people come by and legislators from all levels of government.
Read MoreMICAH is proud to have endorsed the Keep St. Paul Home campaign for rent stabilization. Vote YES on Ballot Question #1 to make our neighborhoods and city stronger.
Read MoreThe graciousness of Jud to help our guest is immeasurable and it is people like Jud who help us transform lives. Whether you are a teacher, a barista, a Mayor, or work in assembly, we are all lifted together on the gifts of the heart.
Read MoreThe St. Paul Chapter had an excellent Legislative Breakfast on the morning of February 12. With over 80 people attending, and over 12 elected officials, we had a thorough and engaging discussion of MICAH’s upcoming policy agenda.
Read MoreThis year, our event, like so many other things impacted by COVID, was different. In the urgency to deal with the pandemic, combined with the ease of setting up virtual meetings, legislative committees were already up and running several weeks earlier than normal! This made picking our date a little tricky, since it’s hard to have a Legislative Breakfast without legislators (not to mention, no breakfast…) and the chapter needed to reschedule from our original Wednesday to a Friday, when only one committee meets. We met with 8 elected officials and 60 local voters on that Friday the 5th.
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