Safety After Shelter

Housing Stability Services

Housing Stability Services are available to victim-survivors and their children exiting the shelter. Former residents are able to work with a Housing Stability Advocate to continue navigating legal systems, housing challenges, employment searches, targeted community support, and rent support for a year after they leave.

The Housing Stability Advocate visits victim-survivors in their new homes once they have left the shelter and provides resources and support to ensure they are able to remain independent and safe.

Housing Stability Collaboration with Oasis of Love

Women’s Advocates is collaborating with Oasis of Love Intervention Center, a culturally-specific domestic violence service provider in North Minneapolis, to provide housing navigation and eviction prevention services to households in crisis in the Twin Cities and the surrounding communities.

Do you need help finding safe, affordable housing?

• We have advocates on staff that can walk with you and guide you through the process.
• Get help removing barriers that are making it hard to find a place to call home.

Do you need help avoiding eviction and negotiating with your landlord?

• Our advocates are trained in working with local landlords to renegotiate leases and create long term stability.
• We offer support in finding resources, jobs, and educational opportunities necessary to stay in your home.

If you are in St. Paul or Ramsey County, please reach out to Women’s Advocates at splaster@wadvocates.org or call 651.726.5216.

If you are in North Minneapolis, please reach out to Oasis of Love at support@agapeoasis.com or call 612.529.6055.

Information on Rental Subsidies

Our Housing Stability Program has built relationships with area landlords and community housing programs. Participants have had the time needed to achieve stability and avoid returning to potentially dangerous situations due to financial vulnerability. Housing Stability has become a reliable avenue for women with children to have access to a continuum of care as they maintain a life free from violence that is stable and predictable.

Join our Landlord Circle Today

You provide safe housing. Women’s Advocates provides support. If you own RENTAL PROPERTIES in St. Paul or the Twin Cities area that accept Section 8 Vouchers, you can help to create a healing home for a victim-survivor and their family. Join our Landlord Circle and commit to checking in with Women’s Advocates Housing Stability Team when you have a vacancy. Women’s Advocates provides rental assistance to each of the families we serve in our aftercare program.

Able to help? Please contact housing@wadvocates.org.