Mary's Place

Mary’s Place offers free emergency shelter and transitional housing for homeless families with children. This building was named after and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus. This beautiful 3-story complex was born out of compassion, concern, and love for struggling women and children in poverty. Mary’s Place was built entirely with private donations and these 100 fully furnished apartments give hope, peace, safety, and stability to all who occupy them.

Families are given their own private apartment with bedroom space, kitchen space, bathroom, basic furniture items like couch/table/chairs/shelving units, phone, and television with cable. There are 2 sizes of apartments. The smaller apartments can accommodate 3-5 people and the larger apartments can accommodate 5-12 people. All together, we can house more than 600 people in need at any given time. Every effort has been made to ensure the safety and security of the residents by having a locked front door, entry by ID card only, security cameras, and a front desk lobby that is staffed 24/7. Rules and guidelines are in place to ensure a family-friendly, peaceful, and productive environment.

On the main floor, residents have access to a free/large laundry facility, computer resource room with internet, chapel, medical clinic, meeting spaces, classrooms where their children can access tutoring services, and activity rooms. Mary's Place also has a large fenced in backyard with playground, basketball court, small soccer field, and picnic tables. The building and grounds are kept impressively and incredibly clean.

Mary’s Place has full-time Family Advocates that provide all of the families case management. They work different shifts to be available to the families morning, afternoon, and evening. Each family is given their own Family Advocate to work with during their stay so they have the guidance and support they need to work towards independence and self-sufficiency. The Family Advocates meet with the families to help with goal planning, budgeting skills, and referrals to community resources and services. The residents work toward securing daycare, finding a job if they do not already have one, saving their money, and finding housing that will be affordable and safe for their family.

Homeless families with children are eligible to request shelter acceptance at Mary's Place. Families need to come for an in-person intake interview. All children needing shelter must be present. Shelter requests are considered on an individual basis, depend on if there are vacancies, and are not automatically granted.

Shelter Intakes are done each week at :

Sharing and Caring Hands

525 North 7th Street

Minneapolis, MN 55405

Monday - Thursday at 10:00am. We encourage early arrival as there is often a line for this service.

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