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Agency Plans

Minnesota Housing issues multiyear plans to guide its work, including its Strategic Plan, Affordable Housing Plan and Affirmative Action Plan. All such plans will be posted here. 

Strategic Plan

Minnesota Housing periodically undertakes a comprehensive review of its mission, vision, values, priorities, goals and strategies. The Strategic Plan provides the Agency's direction for the next four years. It outlines how the Agency will use its financial, programmatic, operational and human resources to achieve its strategic priorities and sustain a healthy organization over the long term.

Affordable Housing Plan

The Affordable Housing Plan (AHP) is Minnesota Housing’s business plan to carry out the Agency’s core work for the upcoming two years and implement the Strategic Plan. The AHP outlines key programmatic and policy initiatives for the next two years, specifies program-by-program funding and establishes production targets.

Affirmative Action Plan

Minnesota Housing is committed to affirmative action and equal employment opportunity.

Crossroads to Justice

The Minnesota Interagency Council on Homelessness (MICH) released the Crossroads to Justice Plan. It will guide the state's work to reduce homelessness by 15% and narrow the racial disparities of who experiences homelessness.

This is the first state plan to be co-led and developed with paid consultants who have faced housing instability or homelessness.

Read the Crossroads to Justice Plan.

Limited English Proficiency Language Access Plan

The Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Language Access Plan (LAP) exists to ensure that limited English proficient (LEP) Minnesotans are provided with meaningful access to Minnesota Housing’s programs and services. This LEP Language Access Plan (LAP) contains guidelines for policies, procedures and trainings, as well as background on federal mandates for LEP requirements and Minnesota specific demographics of LEP populations.

Read the Limited English Proficiency Language Access Plan.

Climate Resilience Housing and Decarbonization Roadmap

The Climate Resilience and Housing Decarbonization Roadmap serves as a climate-focused guide for the Agency. It identifies specific targets for Agency activities as well as recommendations for how individual teams and programs can achieve those goals.

Olmstead Plan

The Minnesota Olmstead Plan is a set of goals our state must meet so that people with disabilities can live, learn, work, and enjoy life alongside everyone else in the community. Learn more about the Olmstead Plan.

Federal Program Plans

Consolidated Housing & Community Development Plan

Minnesota submits a Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) every five years. It establishes goals for addressing housing and community development needs.

The Annual Action Plan is updated every year. A Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) is issued for the previous year. 

Submit comments for Substantial Amendment to the 2025 Annual Action Plan for the Emergency Solutions Grant Program

The Minnesota Department of Human Services is now accepting comments on the proposed Substantial Amendment to the Federal Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Action Plan for the Emergency Solutions Grant Program (ESG). The ESG program provides funding to nonprofit organizations and local units of government to provide emergency shelter and housing for people experiencing homelessness in areas of the state which do not receive a direct ESG allocation from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), known as non-entitlement areas. 

The proposed substantial amendment would change the planned allocation of ESG funding between eligible activities, increasing funding for prevention and rapid re-housing activities by using state appropriations to fund emergency shelters (previously funded with ESG). 

The public is encouraged to review and make comments about the proposed amendment beginning on July 22, 2026, with the 30-day comment period ending at 4 p.m. on Friday, August 21. Written comments on the proposed Substantial Amendment will be accepted by email at gpt.dhs@state.mn.us or by U.S. Mail at: 

Attn: Department of Human Services 
Attn: Isaac Wengerd 
540 Cedar Street 
St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 

Proposed 2025 Annual Action Plan (with changes marked by striking or underlining).

Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Report

The Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing (AI) is completed in cooperation with the Department of Employment and Economic Development and Department of Human Services. The 2018 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing was adopted in September 2018.