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The housing market in Greater Minnesota is broken

Across Greater Minnesota, communities need workforce housing. With unemployment rates at historic lows, employers are looking beyond their region to find workers to fill job vacancies. But if housing is unavailable, then those jobs go unfilled. Greater Minnesota does not have enough housing stock to accommodate workers and their families.

The Greater Minnesota Partnership works to support investments that aim to reduce the cost of building new housing and revitalizing existing units, as well as ensuring that workers and their families have access to affordable housing.

Recent Successes Include:

Advocated for a one-time increase in funding for the Greater Minnesota Workforce Housing Program.  The program was funded at $39 million for FY24-25.  The program provides grants to finance market rate, multi-family housing.

Created a new Greater Minnesota Housing Public Infrastructure Program to help support the public infrastructure upgrades needed for new housing.  This program was funded one-time at $8 million.

Advocated for $95 million in additional funding for the Challenge program. Around half of the total program funding will go to Greater Minnesota.

GMNP's 2025 Legislative Priorities will be Available this Fall