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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 ... 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

Why Minneapolis Just Made Zoning History

Minneapolis 2040 comprises 14 goals, largely centered around housing, to achieve a vision for equitable growth and social stability over the next two decades. The plan is explicit in its ... history g... 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 ... again... 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 mill... read more

New research explores history of housing discrimination in Minneapolis

When historian Kirsten Delegard returned to Minneapolis after 20 years, she discovered that little had been done to understand the history ... back to its original owners despite the various individua... read more

Public housing plays a huge role in racial segregation and inequality — but not in the way most people think

Those policies also led to a sharp rise in racial segregation across many US cities, according to Richard Rothstein, a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute who wrote "The Color of Law: ... read more

A Brief, Complicated History of Minnesota's Civil Rights Leadership

Since before its statehood ... Minnesota outlaws racial covenants (a housing practice meant to exclude on the basis of race) two years before the Supreme Court case that held that courts could not enf... read more

Confronting Austin’s History of Racial Segregation

Every day, as executive director of Six Square, Austin´s black cultural district, Nefertitti Jackmon confronts a racial history going back to at least the city’s 1928 segregation plan ... a background ... read more

Student government committee drafting resolution to rename Coffman Union

Ilhan Omar, DFL-Minneapolis, tweeted out a petition in support ... from Aug. 14 to Dec. 22 and raised awareness of the University’s history of anti-Semitism, racism and housing segregation of African- ... read more