Since 2019 more than 67-hundred students in Minneapolis have benefited from the program, including 360 at Nellie Stone Elementary.
In its sixth year, the City of Minneapolis, alongside school and community partners, announced that the Stable Homes Stable Schools initiative has provided housing stability as a pathway for school success for more than 6,700 Minneapolis students.
City and county leaders gathered to celebrate the programs continued impact on students and their families.
Angelique Jackson is a participant of the initiative.
" In my 50s I had a house fire. That is ultimately what left me homeless, I had adopted a son." says Jackson, "I'm raising grandkids and without meeting Sharmeka Ridley to tell me about this program, my kids would have been living in a car."
She says her family is much better off thanks to SHSS.
Minneapolis Public Housing Authority's Abdi Warsame also weighed in on the program.
" When students have a stable housing, they do better in school," He says, "That is critical because we know education is vital to ending the cycle of poverty."
Since 2019, more than 24-hundred families and 67-hundred students in Minneapolis have benefited from the S-H-S-S initiative, including 360 kids at Nellie Stone Elementary.
In Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's Proposed 2026 city budget the "Stable Homes, Stable Schools" initiative was prioritized over some Emergency Housing Vouchers, drawing some push back from the city council earlier this year.