The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) at the University of Minnesota is looking for a skilled full-stack developer with a background in data science to create a web application that empowers communities, researchers, and advocates.
This tool will make it easier to understand rental property ownership, eviction patterns, and housing code violations in Minneapolis. By combining interactive maps and visualizations of ownership networks, it will shine a light on the connections between property owners and provide actionable insights to support housing equity and transparency.
What you’ll build:
- Custom Query Interfaces: Help users explore data on housing ownership, evictions, and code violations.
- Ownership Network Mapping: Create interactive visual tools that reveal geographic trends and ownership networks, uncovering connections between property owners.
- Exportable Insights: Enable researchers to share findings with accessible export features.
Join us in creating a resource that will drive meaningful change for communities across our city. Application open until 2/1/2025.
Lee Guekguezian
Lee Guekguezian (she/her) is a community-based researcher committed to decision-making justice and elevating lived experiences through research. As a program director at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), they lead initiatives that connect university resources with community-driven projects across Minnesota. Their work focuses on facilitating trust-based collaborations, translating complex findings into accessible narratives, and using data visualization to explore patterns of displacement, ownership, and investment.
Lee holds a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA and a degree in Geography from Macalester College. Their experience spans affordable housing policy and funding, spatial analysis, and program evaluation, working to democratize research and data to amplify community narratives. Outside of work, Lee enjoys biking around the Twin Cities, making rugs, and being a regular at iPho in St. Paul.
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Anthony Damiano
Anthony (Tony) Damiano received his PhD in Public Affairs from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota in 2021. He specializes in quantitative and spatial methods. His research interests include housing policy, neighborhood change, structural racism and inequality.
