CURA's Community Visualization program recently wrapped up a collaboration with Growing Up Healthy in Rice County.
Growing Up Healthy is a coalition of organizations and agencies founded in 2007 to address the social factors influencing the health of young families in Rice County. Latinx leaders and Growing Up Healthy program staff wanted to create a visual version of the ACLU's Know Your Rights guide, including local resources and highlighting the information most important…
What Repairs Are Required in My Apartment is a visual guide created as a collaborative effort between the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), Minneapolis neighborhoods, and housing organizations who support tenant organizing.
Community members are invited to participate in an upcoming “Cafe Con Alondra” forum about renter…
The Atlantic’s CityLab posted an article on a map detailing declining home ownership rates in urban areas developed by the journalist and web developer Ken Schwencke.
Sarah Hernandez with the McKnight Foundation suggested that a closer look be taken at renters in the Twin Cities. Here are some of the maps made in…
A couple of months ago, we published the English language version of the “Who Can Live in My Apartment?” flyer. We were also working on a Spanish language version and we are ready to share a draft.
We would love your feedback on the wording–we want this to be understandable by the widest possible audience. What would you change? Drop us a line, and let us know.
Download a PDF of the Spanish Language “Who Can Live in My Apartment?” flyer.
A couple of weeks ago, we posted a map of Minneapolis Racial/Ethnic Diversity Index. One of our Twitter followers very wisely requested we apply the same lens to the City of St. Paul. Here is that map.
This map shows the diversity score* of St. Paul neighborhoods. “Diversity” refers to the relative proportions of racial and ethnic groups in an area (here, census tracts). An area has a high diversity score if it has more equal proportions of different racial and ethnic groups. An area with a low score has…
Who Can Live in My Apartment? was created by CURA staff in close collaboration with community organizers at Corcoran Neighborhood Organization, Lyndale Neighborhood Association and Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association who are working with renters in their communities.
The flier aims to make City of Minneapolis ordinance that governs rental housing occupancy standards—which sits in both the …
