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Minneapolis Confronts Its History of Housing Segregation

Minneapolis will become the first major U.S. city to end single-family home zoning, a policy that has done as much as any to entrench segregation, high housing costs, and sprawl as the American urban ... read more

Despite Resistance, Cities Turn to Density to Tackle Housing Inequality

The newest tool that cities are deploying in the ongoing fight against segregation ... market forces—which history has proven are not inclusionary.” (The Minneapolis 2040 plan calls on the city to ... read more

Minneapolis, Tackling Housing Crisis and Inequity, Votes to End Single-Family Zoning

In a bold move to address its affordable-housing crisis and confront a history of racist housing practices, Minneapolis has decided to eliminate single-family zoning, a classification that has long ... read more

Charlotte leaders consider how to undo a ‘legacy’ of housing segregation

Minneapolis authorities hoped their policy would reduce racial segregation in a city that, like Charlotte, sees wide inequities between many of its black and white ... cited the city’s history of ... read more

With covenants, racism was written into Minneapolis housing. The scars are still visible.

An awful history ... Although far more subtle, Minneapolis’s restrictive zoning laws also reinforced housing segregation. The 2040 plan recently passed is another big step in Minneapolis overcoming ... read more

Minneapolis Mayor Unveils Plan to Undo History of Segregation

Color-coded maps like this one of Minneapolis ... its later phases. The task force recommendations would bolster those efforts with a proposed quadrupling of the city’s current $11 million to $12 ... read more

Changing the character of Minneapolis in the name of diversity and equality

A lot of research has been done on the history that's led us ... Blaming single family housing zoning on segregation impulses is ridiculous in Minneapolis, a city that had less than one or two percent ... read more

What Seattle can learn: Q&A with the Minneapolis politician who eliminated single-family zoning

Minneapolis this month took a much more dramatic step on density meant to ease its real-estate crunch and address its history of racial segregation ... and those have a wide variety of housing types. ... read more

Minneapolis 2040 helps address housing inequality

It may reshape living patterns, but history suggests that duplexes and triplexes can be invisibly integrated into Minneapolis neighborhoods. This is a far more delicate way of adding housing ... ... read more

What Can Portland Learn From Minneapolis' Single-Family Zoning Ban? We Asked Its Mayor.

As housing prices and homelessness rates in growing ... What inspired you to take on single-family zoning in the first place? Mayor Jacob Frey: Minneapolis has a long history of very intentional ... read more

Taking on Housing Crisis, Minneapolis Votes to End Single-Family Zoning

In a bold move to address its affordable-housing crisis and confront a history of racist housing practices, Minneapolis has decided to eliminate single-family zoning, a classification that has long ... read more

University of Minnesota to probe its history of racism and anti-Semitism

A provocative exhibit about the University of Minnesota’s history of segregation ... in all its complexity.” The exhibit is on display through Nov. 30 at the Andersen Library’s Atrium Gallery, 222 ... read more