Legislative — MICAH and Housing News

Alice Hausman, 2022 MICAH Lifetime Achievement Award

Alice Hausman was first elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1989, more than 3 decades ago, with major interests in capital investment and bonding. Over those decades, exercising her leadership role on the House finance committee, Rep. Hausman became one of the House’s strongest advocates for bonding and investment in affordable housing.

Even in this moment, in the final week of the 2022 legislature, budget numbers have yet to be allocated, but Rep. Hausman continues to respond personally and positively to messages from affordable housing advocates. She richly deserves MICAH’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her long and tireless work for affordable housing in Minnesota.

MICAH NorthEast Chapter March Newsletter Report

This 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.

MICAH St. Paul – CALL TO ACTION at CITY HALL!

This is a critical time. And the big landlords are using smaller landlords to push back against these protections. They claim that these simple things will make it impossible to do business. But a good landlord does not need to use triple deposits, or evict people without a legitimate reason. And our City Council needs to hear this.

Specific Calls MICAH is Supporting

Calling everyone to advocate, so those who are or will be experiencing homelessness are not lost in the shuffle.

NorthEast Suburban Chapter February Report

Our monthly meeting brought together 15 of our NorthEast leaders to discuss a number of things. We got our Legislative Folders, to be used in this year’s legislative session and whenever we need facts to back up our requests. If you didn’t get a folder, contact John (slade@micah.org) and we will be sure to bring some to our next meetings!

February Policy Update

Legislature Open for business and Lead Safe Homes bill gets new champion in the Senate!

The short legislative session kicked off on February 11 and staff at MICAH have been extra busy. Former Health Commissioner Ed Ehlinger and JRLC Executive Anne Krisnik joined Sue Watlov Phillips and Patti Whitney-Wise in a round of key meetings with legislators on the Lead Safe Homes bill (HF 1007/ SF 1798).

Legislative, MICAH Anoka ChapterMICAH CommunityFebruary 29, 2020Policy

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