Alliance Housing Stories

Alliance Housing’s Annual Fundraising Breakfast will be on Thursday, September 26th, 2024 at 8am at the American Swedish Institute! Please join us for a meaningful morning as we highlight our plans and accomplishments, hear stories from our tenants, and connect with colleagues, Board members, staff, and other friends […]... Read More ›

Join us Sunday, June 9th from 1pm-3pm for a walk around Lake of the Isles to learn about the history of Minneapolis and its parks. All proceeds go to supporting Alliance Housing. Register for $50/per person on the Eventbrite or email eschmidt@alliancehousinginc.org with any questions. Ben Olk, former […]... Read More ›

Ebony started working with Alliance Housing in January 2022 as our part-time Housing Operations Assistant. Ebony is a bright light on the Alliance team, growing in her contributions every day. After six months in the role, Ebony moved to full-time, adding administrative responsibility for processing our donations. After […]... Read More ›

The Whittier Alliance (WA) neighborhood organization in Minneapolis and Alliance Housing Inc have established a new partnership to bring low-barrier affordable housing, community meeting and event space, and new office space for both organizations to the vacant site at 2116 Nicollet Ave. The acquisition of the space by […]... Read More ›

64-unit property includes 24 units for formerly homeless What: Grand Opening Celebration When: Thursday, April 20, 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Where: 3301 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55408 (parking on Nicollet Ave and side streets) What: Program at 5:15 p.m.; guided tours before and after program Questions or interviews: […]... Read More ›

Alliance Housing has 14 properties in South Minneapolis all of which have received property tax exemptions for the last 9+ years. These tax exemptions are a key component that allows it to keep rents affordable for low-income tenants. In 2019, Alliance’s re-application for property tax exemptions was denied by the City of Minneapolis. With the […]... Read More ›

In 1996, Greg suffered a gunshot wound to his spine that left him partially paralyzed and in a wheelchair. Greg’s life had been full of guns, drugs, and criminal activity. Greg came from Atlanta to Minnesota where he ended up in a shelter during COVID-19. While at the shelter, Greg worked hard to find a job, housing, and find long-term stability. However... Read More ›

Please join Alliance Housing’s staff in wishing Michael Bobick, our Caretaker and Maintenance technician, a happy 70th Birthday in December!’ Michael is an example of Alliance’s mission at work. Michael has lived at our 2103 2nd Avenue building for 30 years, since before we even owned the property! He started working for Alliance in 1996 as […]... Read More ›

This spring, Tiffany Simmons, an Alliance Property Manager, helped a tenant move into one of Alliance’s buildings. This tenant knew exactly what he wanted to do first after settling into his room — take a nap. This seemingly simple act, resting, is difficult without a safe place to stay. And difficulty attending […]... Read More ›

Building on Alliance’s success at Minnehaha Commons – housing older adults who had been homeless – we knew we had to do more to reduce the homeless adult population. We began talking with Touchstone Mental Health two years ago to conceptualize a similar project for younger adults. At […]... Read More ›

The affordable housing crisis has been atop many legislative and policy efforts over the last few years. The data is clear: the the gap between rents and income continues to widen and more families find themselves with unstable housing, or unhoused, or stressed by paying too much of […]... Read More ›

Jessie Hendel’s first day as the Executive Director for Alliance Housing Inc. was March 8. Our board of directors began this search process last summer after Barb Jeanetta announced her retirement plans. With plenty of time to plan, the board cast a wide net. For nearly a year, […]... Read More ›

Every now and then, we take a look at why people move out of our apartments. Recently, in analyzing vacancies in our scattered-site apartments, we discovered that more than ½ of our tenants moved because they found “equal or better” housing elsewhere. At Alliance, we count it as […]... Read More ›

Alliance Housing’s policy advocacy work had some successes this past year.  In some ways, the pandemic has provided more access to elected officials by video chat and more focus on tenant protections.  Minneapolis Councilmember Cam Gordon saw the value of single room occupancy (SRO or to us sleeping […]... Read More ›

The more things change, the more they stay the same and build for the future.  We’ve mentioned pending staff transitions over the past year.  Bob Bono, 20+ year property manager, has reduced his time to 3 days per week and will fully retire in the next 6-8 months.  […]... Read More ›

A million dollar gift from an anonymous donor made Alliance’s dream come true to make more affordable rental housing available by increasing its scattered site housing portfolio.  The donor was introduced by a volunteer/donor/colleague and immediately liked Alliance’s management style and ability to finance its properties in a […]... Read More ›

Alliance Housing’s board of directors hosted an evening event and fundraiser on September 30th to celebrate the organization’s 30 years of mission focused work.  Friends, family and colleagues seemed pleased to celebrate the legacy of Alliance and its promising future as well as enjoy each other’s company.  Most […]... Read More ›

Barbara Jeanetta, Executive Director of Alliance Housing – a nonprofit developer and owner of inclusive, affordable, relational, and flexible housing – announced recently she will retire from her position in the spring of 2022. During her tenure, Jeanetta strengthened and deepened the housing and advocacy mission of the […]... Read More ›

Alliance Housing is celebrating its 30th anniversary year.  Please join us the evening of September 30, 2021 to help celebrate. We’re planning an “in person” our 30th anniversary reception on Sept. 30th from 5-7pm.  We’ll host an evening reception in lieu of our traditional early morning breakfast at […]... Read More ›

Please save the evening of Thursday, September 30th on your calendars.  Assuming we’re past pandemic restrictions, we’d like you to help us celebrate “in person” our 30th anniversary.  We’ll host an evening reception in lieu of our traditional early morning breakfast at the Town and Country Club.  Besides […]... Read More ›

Here at Alliance Housing, we’ve been advocating and agitating for many years for our belief that rooming houses and sleeping rooms can be part of the solution to the problem of homelessness.  In this past year our efforts have begun to bear fruit. We were able to expand […]... Read More ›

In this online event for Twin Cities residents, Richard Rothstein will discuss his critically acclaimed book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, a searing account of how federal, state, and local policy explicitly segregated metropolitan areas nationwide. Rothstein shows that these policies created […]... Read More ›

At Alliance Housing, we’ve always kept an ‘interest list’ of completed applications.  We can’t call it a ‘waiting list’ because vacancies are few and far between, and most people looking for housing can’t wait. With the incredibly low vacancy rate in the Twin Cities, especially for those at […]... Read More ›

Give to the Max Day is Thursday, November 19th. If you’ve already made a donation to Alliance, we are so thankful! We’re using this year’s opportunity to expand our rent match forgiveness fund. Since March, we’ve matched rent payments, $1 for $1, for 25 tenants who have lost […]... Read More ›

Thank you to those who joined us virtually on September 24, 2020 for the Alliance Housing Fundraising Breakfast.  We raised just under $90,000. Mark your calendars now for Alliance Housing’s 2021 30th anniversary fundraising event – September 30th. There is still time to check out the videos and make a […]... Read More ›

As more details of the pandemic have evolved, our Board of Directors has determined that it is highly unlikely a gathering of 250 people in September is realistic.  Because the Breakfast is a key fundraising tool for Alliance, we’ve decided to adapt and host a virtual event. We […]... Read More ›