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Staff at One Roof Community Housing call it "The Skinny House." The Duluth home – which the NeighborWorks network organization sold at the end of May – is part of a community land trust, built on a lot that most developers had passed over because of its size.
 

Staff at One Roof Community Housing call it "The Skinny House." The Duluth home – which the NeighborWorks network organization sold at the end of May – is part of a community land trust, built on a lot that most developers had passed over because of its size.
 

Stories bring community together. Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership (SMHP) learned this years ago, and has used storytelling and the arts to educate and share experiences of the wide variety of people who live in Worthington, Marshall, Wilmer and points between. 

Every little bit helps. Leaders at Aeon, a NeighborWorks network organization in Minnesota, know this, which is why they focus on small ways, along with the big, to improve energy efficiency and sustainability. Their residents see the difference. Staff members work with partnering organizations to do free energy audits for their buildings.

At Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corporation (MMCDC), a NeighborWorks network organization in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, the COVID-19 pandemic made life more complicated. But a number of residents in the community had already been struggling, relates Laura McKnight, director of housing and real estate.

Sherry Shannon knows what it's like to be isolated – not just the kind of isolation where you're alone in a space, but the kind where you withdraw, where you shut down, where you don't talk to anybody. That's what happened to her when she was homeless, she says. After she found help and an apartment with Aeon, a NeighborWorks organization in Minnesota, it still took time before she started to open up.