Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Director, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
A Minnesota nonprofit that combats housing discrimination has announced a major loss in funding
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid announced Wednesday that the group was notified the Department of Housing and Urban Development was rescinding its grant.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — On Wednesday, March 12, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid (MMLA) announced that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development had canceled a Fair Housing Initiatives Program grant that funds MMLA’s program providing legal help to Minnesotans facing housing discrimination or sexual harassment from landlords.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, which provides legal services to low-income Minnesotans, announced Wednesday that the federal government canceled a $425,000 grant that funds legal help for people facing housing discrimination or sexual harassment from landlords.
In the current year, Legal Aid relied on a $425K from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Department to do this work. But on Feb. 27, the nonprofit law firm was notified that the grant — awarded to Legal Aid 30 years running to help thousands of Minnesotans navigate “Fair Housing” laws — was canceled.
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