Your Monthly N4MN Update
☀️ August 2025 ☀️
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The 2025 Minneapolis Housing Questionnaire is Live!
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In advance of the 2025 elections, Neighbors for More Neighbors partnered with Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia, WedgeLive!, Housing Justice League, Housing in Action, and BikeMN to sponsor a questionnaire to help voters understand where each candidate stands on housing issues in Minneapolis.
We challenged our candidates to share how they'll ensure everyone has access to a safe and secure home in Minneapolis and what they will advocate for as the next Comprehensive Plan is developed. Their answers are published verbatim.
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🎂 Member Social - Tuesday, August 19th 🎂
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Join N4MN for a potluck-style picnic in the park, including good food, great company, and housing-friendly vibes while helping N4MN raise $1,000 to meet our summer fundraising goal!
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📖 Extra, Extra, Read All About It 📖
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Learn about how a fight against ADUs in Blaine highlights the prejudice behind much of the pushback against affordable housing in this great article from the Star Tribune.
Read the article here.
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Image Source: Ellen Schmidt/Minnesota Reformer
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Although the State Legislature failed to act this year, advocates like Neighbors for More Neighbors will return to the Capitol in 2026 to demand action.
Read N4MN's own Alexa's first-hand experience of how Minnesota's housing shortage affects the market.
Read the article here.
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Share our Subgrant Opportunity!
The N4MN's subgrant opportunity closes August 15th. Please share this with any organizations that may be interested, or submit your application if you plan to apply.
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Alexa Bobyak
Director of Operations & Engagement
Alexa keeps operations on track and momentum moving across all fronts. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in Communications, Alexa brings a strong background in HR, volunteer coordination, and nonprofit fundraising. She's passionate about creating systems that support people and make big goals feel doable.
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Alex Walters
Development & Communications Manager
Alex joined the N4MN team in June. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, he brings a wide-ranging background of engineering, development, nonprofit operations, and environmental work. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, adventuring with his wife and husky, watching college football, and reading.
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Angela Bonfiglio
State Community Organizer + Volunteer Coordinator
Angela has been a tenant organizer for the past four years, creating a tenants' union in her own building, working with renters on the Northside, and engaging in tenant organizing across the state, including supporting the effort to pass the Right to Organize policy at the legislature in 2024. Over the last year, as a contractor for N4MN, she worked to support and expand the reach of our volunteers through the State Policy Task Force and is now here full-time. In her free time, she likes to be creative and build community.
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N4MN volunteers will be promoting the Minneapolis Housing Questionnaire at Uptown Porchfest. Enjoy live music and explore a walkable neighborhood at this free and fun neighborhood festival.
More information can be found here.
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Join N4MN at Open Streets West Broadway on September 6th for a free, family-friendly event that celebrates community and allows neighbors to experience city streets as public spaces where communities thrive.
More information can be found here.
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Neighbors for More Neighbors volunteers joined NE Park Fest to talk to the community about our work and to share the Minneapolis Housing Questionnaire with more voters. They made great connections even though it was rainy!
No word on whether they were able to make it to the screening of Finding Nemo after at the event.
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Three Neighbors for More Neighbors leaders attended a week-long training hosted by our friends at ISAIAH, focused on learning about the dynamic field of community organizing, building power to operate in the political arena, and crafting effective actions that win real change for people.
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