Six Greater Minnesota Leaders on their Regions’ Biggest Challenges

We asked the six presidents of the Minnesota Initiative Foundations to lay out a significant challenge their region is facing today and how their communities are trying to address it.

Housing Instability Across Northwest Minnesota

By Karen White, president, Northwest Minnesota Foundation

In northwest Minnesota, homelessness often looks different. It can be a parent with a job, children in school and a life that — until recently — felt stable. It can be someone whose housing situation changed suddenly after a medical crisis, lost income or the need to leave an unsafe situation. Read all six stories from foundation leaders in the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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