The Minnesota Interagency Council on Homelessness, led by Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan and made up of the Commissioners of 14 state agencies, recieved feedback on the draft of its newly developed Housing, Racial, and Health Justice plan for people facing homelessness in Minnesota from August 2 to September 1. Currently, the Justice Consultants and the Council agencies are reviewing and make any needed adjustments and improvements. This final draft will then be brought to the Minnesota Interagency Council on Homelessness in October for final commitments and the official launch of the implementation phase.
This plan has been in development for over a year and the process has been co-lead and co-created with the Council’s 10 Justice Consultants, all people with lived experience of homelessness representing different experiences and different locations across the state.
Phase one of the plan development was a broad community engagement phase to define what housing, racial, and health justice mean for people facing homelessness.
Phase two was the co-creation of the results, strategies and actions to drive toward the vision of justice.
Learn more about the process on the Justice Strategic Plan Overview page: https://mich.mn.gov/justice-strategic-plan.
Public comment closed on September 1, 2023. You can review the draft and the comments people shared below. We hosted a special webinar on August 23, 2023 to take public comment, watch that webinar here.
Review the summary of themes from the public comments
A few important points to keep in mind as you read the draft:
- These strategies and actions do not attempt to represent everything that state government agencies are already doing on this issue or everything that will be done. Rather, the intention is to name the highest impact strategies and actions the Council commits to do over the next few years to drive toward the results we seek.
- These strategies and actions are ones that state government agencies can play an important role in accomplishing. They do not represent everything that must be done to achieve justice, but rather what state agencies can and should do in partnership with community to move toward the vision of justice.