Here’s a quick brainstorm of songs/chants to help move Minnesota’s political leaders to address the lack of affordable housing. Feel free to edit, modify, improve the songs or chants as the situations and messages vary. I wrote these as a resource in 2025 for Minnesota’s Yes To Homes Campaign and ISAIAH.
Housing’s Got to Be F.A.I.R. (tune: YMCA)
A Home We Can Afford (tune: Yellow Submarine)
Housing for Everyone (tune: Vive La Compagnie)
A Home for All (tune: Can’t Help Falling in Love)
Chant #1: Zoning Racism
Chant #2: Problem
Chant #3: Change What?
Chant #4: Listen Up
Chant #5: Everywhere
Chant #6: What Do We Need?
The songs are all new words to familiar tunes, so should be easy for a motley batch of folks to print out at sing together — at the capitol, at the city hall, etc. Some are easy enough that you don’t even need to print.