MICAH's Precinct Caucus Resolutions

Submitting a resolution is simple and it’s a key step in helping ensure everyone has a decent, safe, accessible, and affordable home.

Find your caucus and download the forms.
Attend the party your caucus of your choice - this evening, Tuesday, February 25, at 7pm.
Introduce your resolution.
It gets voted on.

Title: Lead Safe Homes
Rationale: Children are getting poisoned by lead from lead paint in older homes and apartments.
Resolved: We support the Lead Safe Homes legislation.

Title: State bonding for affordable housing and homeless shelters
Rationale: The need for housing assistance is great and the cost of bonding is low.
Resolved: We support the Homes for All legislative proposal of $500 million in bonding for affordable housing

Title: Rent control
Rationale: The State of Minnesota has a gag order on discussion of rent control as a tool to help people who cannot find housing they can afford.
Resolved: The state prohibition on using rent control should be repealed.

Title: Removing bias in renter screening
Rationale: Credit reports, housing court records, and criminal justice records all have systemic racial biases.
Resolved: We support renter screening that limits criminal and housing court lookback and eliminates credit reports as a basis for refusing to rent.

Title: Excessive fees and restrictions
Rationale: Construction of housing is expensive.
Resolved: We support review of zoning requirements and fees that increase cost without increasing safety.

Title: Housing Equity
Rationale: People in the state live in both homes and apartments. Our largest housing programs are first time home buyer credits and mortgage deductions.
Resolved: We need to have equity in the public investments for rental housing and ownership housing.

Title: Decisions around housing that is affordable and homeless shelters
Rationale: The needs of people regarding housing and homeless shelter are best understood by people who need affordable housing and who use homeless shelters.
Resolved: Decisions made about housing and homeless issues should have people who are impacted by those decisions at the decision making tables at every level.

Title: Racial and other equity concerns in housing
Rationale: The history of housing in Minnesota includes racial biases, from homeownership to rental to shelter. For instance, 75% of white residents are homeowners, compared to 25% of African and African American residents.
Resolved: We must have solutions that acknowledge bias in housing and work to repair it through equitable solutions.