Housing Stability
We work with community partners to secure stable housing for youth and families and to eliminate racial disparities in homelessness.
Our housing stability work is grounded in these beliefs:
Every person has value, worth and dignity. Everyone deserves a safe place to call home.
Stable housing is the foundation from which we build our lives.
Homelessness is the result of multiple systemic failures including discriminatory practices and policies – not simply one’s choices.
Together, we can solve homelessness; our communities – public, private, and philanthropic – have the assets and influence needed.
The Pohlad Family Foundation’s goal for our housing stability program is to reduce racial disparities in homelessness among Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) families and youth in the Twin Cities area.
Our programs aim to catch families and youth before they fall into homelessness, and to increase the options available to community members moving out of homelessness and into stable homes. Our work in and with community, including those who have direct expertise and experience in homelessness, helps to deepen our knowledge, and better understand the many interconnected issues affecting housing stability and identify solutions.
We invest in efforts that:
Improve Direct Impact Services Our partners address racial disparities with support for social, financial, and legal services that directly help individual families and youth achieve housing stability. Programmatic grants in this area help organizations increase their impact, support evaluation of outcomes from a culturally specific and equitable lens and deepen understanding of what works best from the perspective of BIPOC families and youth.
We believe that we can be most effective by focusing our resources on BIPOC families and youth, prioritizing people who are Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ, exiting foster care, and/or single-parent and multi-generational BIPOC households.
Build Capacity BIPOC-led nonprofits are critical to the Twin Cities’ success in confronting racial disparities and the disproportionate rates of Black and Indigenous families and youth experiencing housing instability. We support BIPOC-led grantees to expand their operational capacity, strengthen infrastructure, build community, and meaningfully participate in and influence policy.
Improve Systems Partnerships help ensure systems are accountable to communities and people most impacted by homelessness, specifically Black and Indigenous families and youth. We work closely with other funders and governmental organizations to align efforts toward community-based solutions and advocate for change that results in more equitable systems.
BIPOC-led organizations received 73% of Direct Impact grant funding in 2023.
