Jeff Matson | (612) 625-0081

SERVES: Community Organizations and Government Agencies

PURPOSE: Minnesota 3-D is a dynamic, GIS-based Internet application that brings together labor market, housing, and development information and analysis for the Twin Cities metro area into one easy-to-use tool for economic and community developers. By combining labor market origin–destination data on Minnesota jobs and workers with housing and transportation data, this tool will increase the capacity of project partners to plan and develop housing and economic development programs that narrow the growing spatial mismatch between housing and employment in the Twin Cities region. The application is available online at http://map.deed.state.mn.us/M3D/.

The M3D project is a partnership between the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, the Minnesota Office of Revenue, the Metropolitan Council, Ramsey and Hennepin Counties, and various Twin Cities neighborhood organizations and community development corporations. The project is funded by a Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

COMMITTEE GROUPS:

Steering Committee
Community Partners
Data group
Technical group

MORE INFORMATION:

GIS Resources Page
M3D Meetings and Minutes
M3D Project Partners