In January of 2019, the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) released its study of gentrification in Minneapolis and St. Paul between 2000 and 2015. “The Diversity of Gentrification: Multiple Forms of Gentrification in Minneapolis and St. Paul” used a mixed methods approach that combined a statistical analysis of neighborhood-level data with an in-depth qualitative analysis of interviews with public officials, community leaders, and neighborhood residents. The study found significant evidence of gentrification in the two cities.
Read the complete "The Diversity of Gentrification" report
Impacts:
The report has helped shift the policy narrative to center anti-displacement efforts in affordable housing plans. It has resulted in CURA researchers giving multiple presentations to local government and nonprofit leaders and advising Minneapolis City Council members on affordable housing plans. CURA Senior Researcher Dr. Brittany Lewis also worked with former Congressman Keith Ellison to introduce the Equal Opportunity for Residential Representation Act (H.R. 1146) in Washington, D.C. This act proposed a grant program to fund legal representation for those facing housing-related issues. Dr. Lewis also partnered with former Congressman Ellison to write the 2018 Eviction and Housing Affordability Crisis in Minneapolis report published by his office.
Community Partners: African Career, Education, and Resource (ACER); Asamblea de Derechos Civiles; City of Lakes Community Land Trust (CLCLT); Equity in Place (EIP); Frogtown Neighborhood Association (FNA); Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia; Pangea World Theater; Parks and Power; Village Trust; and West Side Community Organization (WSCO)
Edward Goetz
Edward G. Goetz is director of CURA and a faculty member at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
Ed specializes in housing and local community development planning and policy. His research focuses on issues of race and poverty and how they affect housing policy planning and development. Before coming to the University of Minnesota in 1988, he worked at the mayor's Office of Housing and Economic Development in San Francisco and for several nonprofit community developers in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He has served on the board of directors of nonprofit housing agencies in the Twin Cities, and on several regional commissions related to affordable housing and development.
He is the author of The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities (Cornell University Press, 2018), New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy (Cornell University Press, 2013), Clearing the Way: Deconcentrating the Poor in Urban America (2003, Urban Institute Press), Shelter Burden: Local Politics and Progressive Housing Policy (1993, Temple University Press), and co-editor of The New Localism: Comparative Urban Politics in a Global Era (1993, Sage Publications).
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