Soldier. Humanitarian. Loyal. Tyra Thomas is a Housing Equity Strategist with Community Solutions and a longtime community advocate in Minneapolis whose work is rooted in faith, accountability, and a deep commitment to dignity for all people. She describes her role as ensuring that housing is treated as a human right that is fair, non-discriminatory, equitable, and able to create the possibility of generational wealth. Tyra brings more than lived experience to this work. She brings lived expertise shaped by experiencing homelessness on and off for 20 years and by years of organizing alongside others directly impacted by housing injustice. Her current focus is financial accountability, especially challenging systems that claim to support Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities while exploiting them or withholding the resources people need to get and stay housed.
