Affordable Housing

Research
Image of an apartment building with balconies on a street with trees and an older apartment building in the distance.

The US is in the midst of an ongoing affordable housing crisis, and there is intense debate among scholars and activists about the role that high-end luxury apartments may play in lowering rents for everyone, especially for those living nearby. A new peer-reviewed study co-…

Research
Community Based Research Graduate Student Project Spotlight Fact sheet: Housing and Race in Minneapolis
Community Based Research Graduate Student Project Spotlight

Fact sheet: Housing and Race in Minneapolis

Through the Kris Nelson Community-Based Research Program, Jack Gramlich (MPP '24) has supported the research and advocacy goals of the Make Homes Happen Coalition over the last year.…

Event
section 515

Register for "The Future of Rural Rental Housing: USDA Sect 515 Research & Remedies," an event hosted by the Minnesota Housing Partnership.

Join us on May 3, at 9 am, for an overview of the recent report The USDA Section 515 Program and The Challenge of Preserving…

Project
Faculty Interactive Research Program

Researchers: Madelaine Cahuas (College of Liberal Arts, Department of Geography, Environment and Society) and Jessica Lopez Lyman (College of Liberal Arts, Department of Chicano and Latino Studies)

This study analyzes Latina/o/x displacement and access to…

Research
Impact of the Covid-19 eviction moratorium

Report submitted to the Minnesota ERASE Campaign (End Rental Arrears and Stop Evictions). ERASE is an effort to ensure that the historic aid enacted by Congress reaches the lowest-income and most marginalized renters it is intended to help. We are working to…

News, Research
Recent Research Roundup

Over the past several months, CURA has completed research projects lead by CURA Director Dr. Edward Goetz and Senior Research Associate Dr. Brittany Lewis. Each project is related to affordable housing. An excerpt from “Seeking Closure: The Lowry Grove Report” by Dr. Goetz…