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Multifamily Rental Assistance

Bridges Program Information
Bridges, provides a rental subsidy for persons with serious and persistent mental illness and/or for persons with serious and persistant mental illness who are also long-term homeless who are eligible to receive a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher subsidy, or who can definitely become eligible to receive a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher, based on successful participation in the Bridges Program and, who are currently on Section 8 waiting lists. The program is administered by local housing organizations in communities in which eligible applicants live. Referral to the program must be made by a mental health professional.

Rental Assistance Program Brochure
Ending Long-Term Homelessness Initiative and Business Plan

The Housing Trust Fund Rental Assistance
Program Overview
The Minnesota Legislature established the Housing Trust Fund in 1988 to support the development of affordable housing for low-income persons and families. Revenue for the Housing Trust Fund is generated from the interest earnings on real estate broker's trust accounts; interest accrued on revenue bond application fees and forfeited fees; and state appropriated funds.

The 2001 Minnesota Legislature, at the request of the Agency, made substantial changes to the Housing Trust Fund program. One of the major changes included the expansion of activities allowed under the program. Historically, the program was used for capital funding only. Now eligible activities are expanded to include rental assistance and housing operating support.

For rental assistance funding, there are three options: tenant-based, sponsor-based, and project-based rental assistance. Housing Trust Fund rental assistance is intended to be temporary in nature and to provide assistance through an Administrator to an individual household or through the owner of an Agency-financed development approved to receive project-based rental assistance.

Program Information for Administrators
Rental Assistance Information for Tenants

Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)
The Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Program was authorized through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Housing and Community Development Act of 1992.  HOPWA funds are for persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families. Uses of HOPWA include acquisition, rehabilitation, conversion, lease and repair of facilities, new construction, project- or tenant-based rental assistance, short-term rent, mortgage, and utility payments, supportive services, operating costs for housing, housing resource and information, and technical assistance.