Healthy Housing Grants

The Minnesota Department of Health Lead and Healthy Homes Program (LHHP) is pleased to announce the current Healthy Housing Grantees for the 2023-2026 grant period. 

Healthy Housing Grantees (2023-2026 grant period)

• Bois Forte Tribal Government
• Carlton-Cook-Lake-St. Louis Community Health Board
• Meeker-McLeod-Sibley Community Health Services
• Morrison-Todd-Wadena Community Health Board
• Polk-Norman-Mahnomen Community Healthy Board
• Rice County Community Health Services
• Sustainable Resources Center, Inc (SRC)

The Healthy Housing Grants provide funding to perform activities related to housing-based health threats, including:

• Implementing and maintaining primary prevention programs to reduce housing-based health threats that include the following: 
  • Providing education materials to the general public and to property owners, contractors, code officials, and other persons and organizations engaged in housing and health issues.
  • Promoting awareness of community, legal, and housing resources.
  • Promoting the use of hazard reduction measures in new housing construction and housing rehabilitation programs.
• Providing training on identifying and addressing housing-based health threats.
• Providing technical assistance on the implementation of mitigation measures.
• Promoting the adoption of evidence-based best practices for mitigation of housing-based health threats.
• Developing work practices for addressing specific housing-based health threats.
• Identifying, characterizing, and mitigating hazards in housing that contribute to adverse health outcomes.
• Ensuring screening services and other secondary prevention measures are provided to populations at high risk for housing-related health threats.
• Promoting compliance with Department of Health guidelines and other best practices, as identified by the commissioner, for preventing or reducing housing-based health threats.
• Establishing local or regional collaborative groups to ensure that resources for addressing housing-based health threats are coordinated.
• Developing model programs for addressing housing-based health threats.

These grants were awarded through an RFP process and were subject to final approval by the Commissioner of Health. The total amount of the grant funding for the entire grant period (March 1, 2024-June 30, 2026) is $720,000. This is distributed to grantees at amounts up to $120,000 per grantee total, over three fiscal years. These grant funds are dependent upon the appropriation of funds by the state legislature to the Department of Health. 

The next RFP is expected to be announced in late Spring 2026.

For additional questions about the Healthy Housing Grants, contact Katie Haugen at katie.haugen@state.mn.us.