Excerpted from Local Data for Equitable Communities Resource Hub, a publication of NNIP
Investor-owned single-family rentals have increased nationwide since the foreclosure crisis, which has caught the attention of researchers, media outlets, and advocacy organizations. Researchers have developed methods to unveil investors’ portfolios masked with a complexity of LLCs and LPs and have examined the effect of investor-owned rentals on eviction filings and code violations. Family Housing Fund, in partnership with the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) at the University of Minnesota, an applied research center with a focus on community partnership and a partner in the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, (NNIP), is centering tenants’ experiences to better understand how large-portfolio investor landlords affect residents’ quality of life. Family Housing Fund and CURA surveyed tenants of single-family rentals in Minneapolis’s Northside, neighborhoods with residents who are predominantly people of color and that have a concentration of investor-owned single family rentals, using CURA’s local parcel database on Hennepin and Ramsey counties. This first survey provides a foundation for Family Housing Fund and CURA to expand the survey to obtain more responses in North Minneapolis and in other communities in the region to solidify their understanding of tenants’ experiences and to inform policies.
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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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.
