Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul shares an exciting development about their ministry Project Home, which St. John’s has been involved with for many years now.
Project Home provides emergency shelter and rapid exit case management services for area families facing homelessness. Stabilizing services include basic daily needs (meals, laundry), case management (assistance finding housing, employment, daycare, and school), financial education (budgeting, saving, credit/debt recovery), and on-site mental health therapy. For a number of years, Project Home was a mobile shelter, hosted by local faith communities for one month at a time. After this schedule was disrupted by Covid-19 closures and concerns, the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet opened their Provincial House location to them in March 2021, where Project Home has been located since.
On March 31, 2025, Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul took ownership of 1010 Bandana Blvd W, previously operated as the Best Western Plus Como Park Hotel. The Walz-Flanagan Administration awarded $6 million, administered by the Minnesota Department of Human Services, for this acquisition through American Rescue Plan State Fiscal Recovery Fund. Ramsey County, longstanding partners to our work providing emergency shelter to families experiencing homelessness, is also supporting the project with leadership from the Ramsey County Housing Stability Department and Board of Commissioners.
Our new location at 1010 Bandana Blvd W. has allowed us to establish a permanent hub in Saint Paul to address the ever-growing community need, providing emergency shelter, food, clothing, rapid exit housing case management, tutoring, job coaching, and more. You can view a photo tour of our new location here. Plans for the new location include an expanded space for Project Home (one of only two emergency family shelters in Ramsey County’s Coordinated Entry System), other programming fostering economic stability and mobility, and administrative operations.
“The work of Interfaith Action is brought to life by community—strength is built when communities of faith and wisdom gatherings work together to support their neighbors in achieving economic stability and mobility,” says CEO Liliana Letran-Garcia. “This milestone enables Interfaith Action to write the next chapter of our story with ownership of a new home, providing shelter to even more unhoused families while continuing to strengthen our roots and relationships in the community.”
Thank you for continuing to support our ministry with Project Home! Reach out to our deacon, the Rev. Judy DesHarnais, if you would like to get involved.
If you are seeking emergency shelter, please dial 2-1-1 (or 651-291-0211).
