Application deadline: April 30, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. CST
HOME Line, in partnership with AmeriCorps, seeks proposals from organizations interested in hosting a full-time AmeriCorps VISTA Tenant Organizer during the fall 2026–27 program year.
A HOME Line VISTA Tenant Organizer enables your organization to support low-income tenants in rental properties. This cohort of tenant organizers, placed at up to nine community-based sites across Minnesota, will assist, inform, educate, and engage tenants living in properties that are at risk of loss of affordability and/or that face substandard housing conditions.
Rather than providing short-term direct services, VISTA Tenant Organizers work to build your capacity to engage with and support renters for the long term. They put infrastructure in place to create, expand, or improve programs for years beyond their service. Our VISTA Tenant Organizers develop program and training content; build community partnerships; improve volunteer recruitment, training, and management systems; conduct program evaluation, data collection, and analysis; support the creation of tenant associations; and secure resources to ensure long-term program sustainability.
At the same time, VISTA Tenant Organizers build their own leadership, explore career paths, pay for college, and become lifelong advocates for the communities they serve through the power of their experience. This is a unique opportunity to invest in, coach, and mentor emerging leaders in the housing, neighborhood advocacy, and nonprofit fields.
As a host site, you provide the vision, project plan, day-to-day management, and on-site supervision of the VISTA Tenant Organizer. HOME Line provides training and technical assistance to you and the VISTA Tenant Organizer at all stages of the project.
A VISTA Tenant Organizer serves full-time for 12 months, with the option to continue AmeriCorps VISTA service for multiple years.
We invite your organization to participate in this annual selection process.
Contact: Austin Fleming
VISTA Project Director
austinf@homelinemn.org
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