Request for Proposals: Program Coordinator(s) for Families for Finance (FFF) Program
Program Time Frame: January 2021 - January 2022
Desired Start Date: Late December 2020 to early January 2021
Compensation: Negotiable
Proposal due date: December 18, 2020 on or before 10:00 a.m. Closing date for all questions: December 04, 2020 before 10:00 a.m.
Hennepin-University Partnership catalyzes timely collaborations
The Hennepin-University Partnership, a strategic alignment between Hennepin County and the University of Minnesota, has coordinated several recent projects and events bringing these two institutions together around pressing contemporary issues:
City of Minneapolis taps CURA research team to produce study of rent stabilization
A team of researchers from CURA will produce a study of the potential impacts of a rent stabilization policy for the City of Minneapolis. The study will examine market trends and existing conditions in the city's rental housing stock, population and income trends over the past 20 years, and the city's rent affordability gap.
“Evictions & Inequality in North Minneapolis: Centering Community in the Creation of Public Policy”
CURA senior research associate Dr. Brittany Lewis and graduate research assistant Molly Calhoun’s North Minneapolis evictions research was recently published in “Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice.”
Minneapolis uses research by CURA to inform its community preference policy
The City of Minneapolis is moving to initiate a “community preference” policy, to give residents residing within certain neighborhoods preference to receive assistance for specific city affordable housing programs or projects.
Neighborhood Board Representation Training on November 19
CURA's Neighborhood Organizing and Leadership program is looking for People of Color and Indigenous to participate in a free training to support and assist them on their journey toward leadership.