Update 3/28: People sending in public comments have heard that Public Works is not recommending the use of bollards: make sure to ask for bollards in your comments! Update 3/21:… (read more)
Tag: Minneapolis
Email signup & Housing Events Calendar
Enjoy this poster? Buy it here! Our policy goals Mailing list sign-up MSP Housing Events Calendar (or: iCal link) Donate to support us? Reserve a yard sign Some recent successes with organizing support for housing projects… (read more)
? Peris needs funding from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund (success!)
Preliminary project rendering Congratulations! The meeting today was a success for the Peris, which will receive a small amount of money from the residual funds left in the AHTF after… (read more)
Support Eight on 44th appeal in Linden Hills
Not injurious. Update (11/8): the developer of the project is appealing the decision to allow a 3 story building: the developer had asked for a conditonal use permit for 4… (read more)
Oppose the Homewood Historic District
The Homewood District (small blue box) with areas of concentrated poverty from Hennepin County datasets (shaded area) Over the past year a proposal for a historic district in the Homewood area… (read more)
A campaign for “ignored voices” — not really
Saralyn Romanishan entered the race for Ward 10 City Council, framing her campaign in a recent Southwest Journal profile as one of “ignored voices”. I’ve written elsewhere about Romanishan’s approach… (read more)
💡How can Minneapolis improve its housing policy?
When we went from publishing memes to doing advocacy work in 2017, we published this post as a policy grab bag of things Minneapolis could or should consider pursuing. Since… (read more)
Did you see “Don’t Coon Rapids Northeast”?
A flier recently began circulating in response to proposed housing near Dusty’s bar, on Marshall and 14th, entitled, “Don’t Uptown Northeast”. Amongst the complaints, are the typical: not enough parking,… (read more)
Minneapolis residents opposed housing for WWII veterans
The news that Minneapolis had again passed 400,000 residents last summer is a reminder that we did it before. Buried in our history is a story of a post-war Minneapolis… (read more)
