Apply now for Neighborhoods Now! Spring 2025

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To be announced

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Apply Today - Deadline April 18

Potential participants should fill out an application form. Because space is limited, we will contact you shortly after the application deadline to schedule an interview or confirm your enrollment.

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Neighborhoods Now! Program Calendar

The course is May 12 - May 16, 2024 10:00am to 4:00pm

The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge

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Humphrey Forum
Humphrey Building, West Bank Campus
301 19th Avenue S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Link to the YouTube livestream

Promotional image for the 2025 Thomas Scott Seminar series, The Right to Suburbia

A part of the Thomas Scott Seminar series

About the seminar

In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. In this talk, Dr. Lung Amam will discuss her new book, The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge. The book investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DC—one of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United…

HOME: Health, Opportunity, Mobility, and Equity in Housing

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Andersen Library, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus

HOME: HEALTH OPPORTUNITY, MOBILITY AND EQUITY IN HOUSING February 24 - 25 | Andersen Library University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus

CURA is a co-sponsor of the "HOME: Health, Opportunity, Mobility, and Equity in Housing." The Research Barnraising is a 1.5 day symposium, where we aim to explore and start to build innovative research and collaborations centered around the theme of housing.  Housing plays a fundamental role in the health and wellbeing of adults, children, and families in the United States and around the world. From a source of necessary shelter, to the primary source of family wealth accumulation, to the main space that people feel connected to being “at home” with loved ones,  housing is integral to our daily lives. Yet housing has become increasingly unaffordable for many families, and…

2024 Esther Wattenberg Policy Forum

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Esther Wattenberg Policy Forum 2024

 

In honor of the late Esther Wattenberg, the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) will be hosting the 2024 Esther Wattenberg Policy Forum.

2024 Esther Wattenberg Policy Award recipient - Nikki Villavicencio

 

The Esther Wattenberg Policy Award recognizes exemplary policy work and contributions impacting children and families in Minnesota. We will honor the 2024 Esther Wattenberg Policy Award recipient, Nikki Villavicencio, the disability culture and leadership specialist at…

CURA Housing Forum: Exploring the Impacts of the RealPage Antitrust Case

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Hanson Hall, Room 1-108

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If you are not able to attend the event in person, we will be streaming the housing forum live and then archiving it on the CURA YouTube page.

Landscape image from April CURA Housing forum with Tony Damiano presenting

 

Download a PDF of the "Exploring the Impacts of the RealPage Antitrust" presentation

Presenters: Lawrence McDonough, Policy Attorney for HOME Line and Senior Fellow for the National Housing Law Project, and Jordan Ash, Housing Campaign and Research Director for the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP), will speak on this month’s Housing Forum panel.…

Minnesota Census and Democracy Partnership Meeting: Mapping Minnesota's Communities and Voter Turnout

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Minneapolis Central Library - Room: S-275 RKMC room on the second floor
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It’s National Voter Registration Day and Get Out the Vote Season! Join the Minnesota Census and Democracy Partnership to learn about…

Community Mapping Expo for Minnesota Nonprofits

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You're invited!

What: Community Mapping Expo for Non-Profits
When: August 21, 2024, 10 AM - 11:45 AM
Where: 5750 Duluth Street, Golden Valley, MN
Cost: Free

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On August 21, unlock the power of location-based data and access affordable geospatial tools at the Community Mapping Expo for Minnesota Nonprofits.

Attendees will explore a range of mapping resources, including the…

CURA Housing Forum: Social Housing in Minnesota, the campaign for locally-owned and controlled housing

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Hanson Hall, Room 1-104

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If you are not able to attend the event in person, we will be streaming the housing forum live and then archiving it on the CURA YouTube page.

Landscape image from April CURA Housing forum with Tony Damiano presenting

Presenters: Representatives from Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia (United renters for Justice)

The concept of social housing is beginning to gain traction in various jurisdictions around the United States. While there is no one set definition, social housing is usually marked by permanent affordability of rental units, public ownership or control of those units, affordability for a wide range of incomes, and some level of democratic control for residents. 

In some counties across Minnesota, this type of housing already exists, separate and apart from HUD-…

Apply now for Neighborhoods Now! Spring 2024

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To be announced

Spring 2023 Neighborhoods Now! graduates

Apply Today - Deadline April 10

Potential participants should fill out an application form. Because space is limited, we will contact you shortly after the application deadline to schedule an interview or confirm your enrollment.

Apply now for Neighborhoods Now!

Neighborhoods Now! Program Calendar

The course is May 6 - May 10, 2024 10:00am to 4:00pm each…

CURA Housing Forum: Investor-Owned Single-Family Rentals & Evictions in the Twin Cities

April 19, 2024, 12:00, Noon
Hanson Hall, Room 1-102
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If you are not able to attend the event in person, we will be streaming the housing forum live and then archiving it on the CURA YouTube page.

Housing forum web

The CURA Housing Forum is back. This month’s forum will feature CURA researchers Dr. Anthony Damiano and Professor Edward Goetz, who will present their research on the single-family rental market in Hennepin and Ramsey counties.

The growth of investor-owned, single-family homes has become a major issue for renters in the Twin Cities and across the country. Private equity firms, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and so-called “rent-to-own” companies have come…

Esther Wattenberg Policy Forum

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Esther Wattenberg Policy Forum

 

In honor of the late Esther Wattenberg, the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) and Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) will be hosting the 2023 Esther Wattenberg Policy Forum. We invite you to join us for breakfast and a short program! 

We will honor the 2023 Esther Wattenberg Policy Award recipients Minnesota State House Representative Heather Keeler and Minnesota State Senator Mary Kunesh.  

Jeri Jasken and Larissa Littlewolf, Director and Associate Director at the Tribal Training and Certification Partnership (TTCP), will deliver the keynote address. Karen Diver, Senior Advisor to the President of Native American Affairs at the University of Minnesota, will also be joining us as a special guest speaker discussing the TRUTH Report.

The 2023 Esther Wattenberg Policy Forum is an RSVP only event and registration is now closed.

Esther Wattenberg Policy Forum

The Future of Rural Rental Housing: USDA Sect 515 Research & Remedies

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Register for "The Future of Rural Rental Housing: USDA Sect 515 Research & Remedies," an event hosted by the Minnesota Housing Partnership.

Join us on May 3, at 9 am, for an overview of the recent report The USDA Section 515 Program and The Challenge of Preserving Affordable Housing in Greater Minnesota   and conversation about what the future holds for rental housing throughout Greater Minnesota.

Over the next years, rural areas of Minnesota and across the nation will lose thousands of affordable rural rental homes, as federally subsidized loans for those properties are paid off and requirements to keep rents low thus end. As well, renters…

Neighborhoods Now! Spring 2023 Session will be in person!

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Our first in person session of Neighborhoods Now! since 2019!

 

Neighborhoods Now! graduates

Apply Today - Deadline March 31

Potential participants should fill out an application form. Because space is limited, we will contact you shortly after the application deadline to schedule an interview or confirm your enrollment.

Apply now for Neighborhoods Now!

Neighborhoods Now! Program Calendar

The course is May 1-5 from 10am - 4pm each day conducted in person. The course…

Neighborhoods Now! Fall 2022

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Training will be held virtually, via Zoom.

Apply Today - Deadline September 12

Potential participants should fill out an application form. Because space is limited, we will contact you shortly after the application deadline to schedule an interview or confirm your enrollment.

Apply now for Neighborhoods Now!

Neighborhoods Now! Fall 2022 Program Calendar

The course is October 24-28 from 10am - 3:00pm each day 

Thinking Spatially Symposium: Indigenous Mapping

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Friday, October 21, 2022 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT

Hybrid: Online & Northrop, Best Buy Theater

FREE and Open to the Public (Registration Requested)

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CURA's Community Geographic Information Systems (CGIS) program and the Resilient Communities Project (RCP) are partnering with the Institute for Advanced Study, U-Spatial, University of Minnesota Libraries, and DASH to present this year's “Thinking Spatially Symposium: Indigenous Mapping.” Former CURA CGIS Graduate Research…