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Until no family experiences housing instability

We will continue to offer crisis response, wrap-around support and services, joyful community connection, early childhood education, and prevention programs until every family has what they need. Learn more about our work and our impact.

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Learning from lived experience

Family voice centers all of our work

At People Serving People, we don’t just informally or occasionally listen to our families. Family voice is at the center of everything we do. From our monthly Guest Advisory Council meetings at our Downtown Shelter, to our Reflect and Talk About It Tuesdays at St. Anne’s Place, to formally conducting interviews with 100 families before formulating our Strategic Framework, the voices of our families inform our work and reflect our impact.

Family Stories
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“We are all doing the best we know how to do and to share our light with each other. The advocates do that. They ask what we need help with and provide as much support as they can.” 

Ashley – mother, former guest, 2025
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2025 Snapshot

The families we served

People Serving People’s two family shelters, Downtown and St. Anne’s Place, provided shelter, nutritious meals, wrap-around programs, and services to 410 families in 2025. 

  • 1,461 Individuals

    sheltered and supported

  • 43% of Heads of Household

    have a disability

  • 94% of Guests

    are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color

Family stabilization goals achieved

  • 95% of Families

    did not return to shelter within one year

  • 70 Families

    supported by Homelessness Prevention Program, 95% were stably housed after 6 months, 88% after one year

  • 11% to 28%

    Change in incoming and outgoing employment rates with Pre-Employment Services Program.

Research and our data prove that providing comprehensive, holistic services to families leads to long-lasting stabilization. That’s why we provide early childhood education, help with job searches and applications, offer financial literacy classes, and more to our families.

How our volunteers provided essential services

Volunteers are an absolutely crucial part of our ability to serve families. Individuals and groups volunteer and support our meal service, help in our pre-K classrooms, tutor kids in our after-school program, and more.

  • 150,432 Meals

    were served by our staff and volunteers

  • 1,131 People

    volunteered

  • 9,841 Hours

    donated by volunteers

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Minneapolis shelter vandalized more than year ago asked for leniency for attacker as it mends
February 9, 2026

Minneapolis shelter vandalized more than year ago asked for leniency for attacker as it mends

St. Anne’s Place, a family homeless shelter in north Minneapolis, was attacked by a group of its across-the-street neighbors in the middle of the night, forcing the shelter to relocate 16 mothers and their 30-plus children. More than a year later, shelter staff attended the sentencing of one of the assailants, asking a Hennepin County judge to have mercy by waiving her $21,000 restitution. All they wanted in return was an apology.
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Keeping Families Housed: Emergency rental assistance is the best prevention
February 4, 2026

Keeping Families Housed: Emergency rental assistance is the best prevention

Eviction moratoriums only delay family displacement by creating debt traps. The best solution to keeping families facing financial hardship housed is to provide meaningful emergency rental assistance.
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People Serving People Honors and Demands Justice for Alex Pretti
January 26, 2026

People Serving People Honors and Demands Justice for Alex Pretti

We are horrified to be responding to yet another killing by federal agents of another member of our community, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse who cared for veterans. Another life unjustly taken, and just days after 50,000 Minnesotans gathered to peacefully protest the harm that our community, our state, and our country are experiencing in the face...
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Punishing Poverty: The Rising Cascade of Harms
January 22, 2026

Punishing Poverty: The Rising Cascade of Harms

People Serving People explores the impact of ICE enforcement operations in Minnesota on family homelessness.
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People Serving People Stands with All Minnesotans Demanding Justice for Renee Good
January 8, 2026

People Serving People Stands with All Minnesotans Demanding Justice for Renee Good

People Serving People denounces the occupation of Minnesota and Minneapolis by federal ICE agents and Operation Metro Surge. We support our immigrant neighbors, communities of color, observers, and protestors who are subject to the abuses of power and intentional infliction of trauma, terror, and violence. There is no justification for these gross abuses of authority.
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Minneapolis’ model anti-homelessness program faces “fiscal cliff”
October 15, 2025

Minneapolis’ model anti-homelessness program faces “fiscal cliff”

One of Minneapolis' most successful homelessness prevention programs is not accepting new referrals and could run out of money by next spring unless the mayor and City Council can agree how to financially rescue it.
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Experts warn of rising dehumanization of unhoused community, impact of federal cuts
September 21, 2025

Experts warn of rising dehumanization of unhoused community, impact of federal cuts

See Kare 11's story featuring Hoang Murphy, CEO of People Serving People, discussing the increasing number of families experiencing homelessness and how we can solve housing instability for all people.
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