Homework Starts With Home
Information for Grant Administrators
Homework Starts with Home (HSWH) is a grant program focused on addressing homelessness and housing instability among students and their families. The program serves families with children eligible for a pre-Kindergarten through grade 12 academic program and youth (with or without children of their own) who are eligible for an academic program through grade 12 and who are without their parent or guardian.
Note: This program does not offer statewide coverage at this time.
Homework Starts with Home provides:
- Supportive services to find and keep housing
- Financial help for rent deposit, rent assistance, utilities, housing application assistance and other housing related costs
HSWH uses the following program guidelines: The Family Homelessness Prevention and Assistance Program (FHPAP) and the Housing Trust Fund (HTF) rental assistance program to prevent homelessness whenever possible and if homelessness does occur, to help make sure that it is rare, brief, and non-recurring.
Homework Starts with Home Grantees
Homework Starts with Home Contacts List - Find a Homework Starts with Home Program (coming soon)
Due Diligence Information
Minnesota Housing hosted due-diligence training for selected administrators on June 29, 2023.
Due-diligence training (37:56) | Presentation slides