Bring It Home Rental Assistance helps people with low income pay for housing. Bring It Home is a state of Minnesota program that is run by local agencies in different parts of the state, including Public Housing Authorities (PHAs), Housing and Redevelopment Agencies (HRAs), Tribal agencies, and non-profit organizations. This program started helping people in 2026.

If you qualify, you spend about 30% of your income on rent and the Bring It Home program will pay the rest of your rent.

Who It Helps

Bring It Home Rental Assistance helps Minnesota residents whose income is 50% of area median income (AMI) or less. Priority is given to households with income under 30% of AMI that include children ages 18 and under. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) lists how much money this is for your family size in your area. Note: Some local Bring It Home agencies may also give priority to other specific populations.

To qualify, your household must be spending more than 30% of your income on rent. Or you can also qualify if you are experiencing homelessness and don’t pay rent because you don’t have a permanent place to live.

You cannot get Bring It Home Rental Assistance if you are currently getting help from a federal rental assistance program, such as Section 8 vouchers or Section 8 project-based assistance.

Where Bring It Home Rental Assistance Helps

Bring It Home Rental Assistance helps your household rent an apartment or home. This could be any apartment or home where the landlord accepts Bring It Home as a form of payment (called a “voucher”). Or a Bring it Home voucher could be project-based, meaning that you rent a specific apartment that has Bring It Home Rental Assistance tied to the unit.

Whether you get a voucher to pay rent in any apartment or you get a project-based unit may depend on the local agency managing Bring It Home. Contact your local Bring It Home agency to ask them about this.

How to Apply

Apply for Bring It Home Rental Assistance with a Bring It Home agency. Minnesota Housing has a map of agencies throughout the state which you can search using your county or address. Each Bring It Home agency has its own application process that they will explain to you.

If you are placed on a wait list for Bring It Home, make sure to keep your contact information up-to-date. If the Bring It Home agency can’t contact you, you might lose your spot in the wait list.

Finding a Place

If you are approved for Bring It Home, you can keep renting where you live now, as long as your landlord will take Bring It Home as payment. Otherwise, you need to find a place to rent that accepts it as payment, unless you are assigned a project-based unit.

If you need to find your own place, it has to be in the area that your Bring It Home agency serves, within size and rent limits based on the number of people in your household, the area you live in, and other factors. If you have trouble finding a place that meets these standards, talk to your Bring It Home agency to see if they can help you.

If you need to find a place, try different ways to look for housing. First, talk to your Bring It Home agency. After that, you can:

• Search online on websites such as HousingLink
• Look at bulletin boards in community locations
• Check ads in newspapers
• Get recommendations from people you know, and
• Ask your housing authority and other nonprofits that help people with housing.