2018 AMI Cheat Sheet for Minneapolis and St Paul
Now available: a new version of the AMI Cheat Sheet, updated for 2018. This version is an update of the 2017 edition, but now using HUD’s 2018 Area Median Income for the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metropolitan area, which increased to $93,400 for a family of four.
Exploring the impact of manufactured home park closures
In June 2016, the long-time owner of the Lowry Grove manufactured home park in St. Anthony, MN, sold the park to a private developer. Lowry Grove was home to 95 lower-income households, elders living on fixed incomes, and younger immigrant families. Residents fought to keep the park open, but they were displaced in June 2017.
Evaluating the Effects of School-Based Mental Health Services
This project will rigorously evaluate the effects of Minnesota's School-Linked Mental Health program on academic outcomes, mental health services outcomes, and juvenile justice outcomes, for children and adolescents.
Health and health care utilization among children born to incarcerated women
Over the past three decades, the number of women incarcerated in the United States has increased more than 600%. Today, nearly 219,000 women are incarcerated, approximately 6% of whom are pregnant upon their admission to prison. Children born to incarcerated women are known to be at increased risk for health problems.
Police reform in the progressive city
In recent years, policing has become an increasingly controversial and salient government service in the US. After several heavily publicized deaths of Black boys and men (and, later, Black women) during police encounters, some have rallied around the #BlackLivesMatter movement, while others have grown stauncher in their support for law enforcement.
The One-Way Street of Integration: Pursuing racial and regional equity in America’s urban areas
Edward G. Goetz, Director of CURA and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Minnesota