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Item 1990 Saint Paul Housing: Plan Challenges and Opportunities for Dayton's Bluff(1999) Groen, Katie M.Item 2005 St Paul Housing Study: Owner-Occupied Housing(2006) Russell, RobertItem Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice in the City of Minneapolis.(1996) Nalezny, KristanItem Building for the Future: Affordable Redevelopment on Wayzata Boulevard(2024-05-01) Farmer, Zachary; Breen, Aidan; Klingbeil, DwightThe way we think about commutes and suburban transit is changing, all the more rapidly since the COVID-19 pandemic. Transit agencies nationwide are seeing demand for Park & Ride decline, and the same is true for Metro Transit in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. This study examines possible site plans for an underutilized suburban Park & Ride site near the corner of Wayzata Boulevard and Barry Avenue in Wayzata. Utilizing 1) Existing site conditions, 2) City regulations and documentation, 3) an Affordable Housing finance literature review, and 4) Developer interviews, our team compiles a development switchboard, which is used to propose two primary paths for redevelopment on the site. These two paths are used to illustrate tradeoffs that would be involved in the future development at this site. The first development path, As-of-Right, examines what is possible on the site under current zoning constraints, and how it may correspond and conflict with the goals of the City, Metro Transit, and a theoretical development team. The second development path, Maximize Residential, asks what zoning and policy changes would be required to successfully develop affordable housing at a meaningful scale, including accessing the resources of Housing Tax Increment Financing (TIF) and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. The final section of the report outlines the past community engagement regarding this site and presents an equity-oriented engagement framework to incorporate key community member feedback throughout the process of site redevelopment.Item Item Creating Affordable Homes: An Evaluation of the Minneapolis Homes Create Strategy(2024-05-01) Goodrich , Dan; Yudelman, BethThis project was a qualitative analysis of the Create Strategy of the Minneapolis Homes Program. The project was designed to determine to what extent the strategy is meeting its goals. The Minneapolis Homes Program is managed by the Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED) housing division. The mission of the Minneapolis Homes Program (started in 2020) is to help people access, create, and sustain affordable homeownership to eliminate racial disparities in homeownership. This capstone project was specifically focused on the Create Strategy of the program - to what extent are the Minneapolis Homes: Financing and Property Sale Programs successfully creating opportunities to build new homes and rehabilitate existing homes to eliminate racial disparities in homeownership within the city of Minneapolis? Three key findings emerged from our research: 1) Minneapolis Homes is well led and viewed as a national leader, 2) Some developers experience significant “pain points” when working with the city. Further, the experiences that builders have with the city can vary significantly and can be inconsistent. For example, newer community developers need more support navigating the city’s process and receiving early financial support for construction, while larger developers want more consistency, and 3) The Create Strategy is underfunded. More funding is needed for the Minneapolis Homes Create Strategy to increase capacity within the city as well as for specific development projects. In addition, outside forces such as post-Covid inflation, labor shortages, and the Minneapolis 2040 plan lawsuit are adding time, costs, and stress for builders. On a macro level, we recommend that Minneapolis Homes work closely with city departments and divisions to advance the city’s identified primary goal. On a micro level, we recommend that Minneapolis Homes 1) clarify the primary goal within CPED in relation to equity and homeownership: what to incentivize and what to require, 2) seek additional funding to advance the identified goals of the Create Strategy, 3) continue to streamline the process for developers and customize support (including more financial and logistical support when needed), and 4) continue to strengthen communication with developers, city staff, and funders. In addition, Minneapolis Homes should examine whether more homeowner participation in evaluating the Create Strategy is beneficial.Item Employer-Assisted Home Ownership(1999) Rieke, AnnItem Essays in Macroeconomics and Factor Misallocation(2024-06) Rose, TomasFar from operating under ideal conditions, households and firms conduct their daily activities facing a wide variety of frictions that hinder efficient resource allocation. Regulatory forces as well as market incompleteness, directly affect the determination of prices and quantities in any given market. The three chapters in this dissertation are motivated by issues that span this gamut. The first chapter investigates the role of labor market and financial market frictions in aggregate macroeconomic outcomes. In particular, this chapter explores the interaction of two forces: lack of access to borrowing for small and medium sized firms, coupled with unionized wages. The analysis is centered around France, where recent labor market reforms make it an ideal case study to evaluate the aggregate effect that such institutional changes may yield. The second chapter is devoted to the U.S. economy, with its focus on low and mid income households. This chapter studies the market for manufactured (both modular and panelized) homes in the U.S. This industry, which saw its peak in the late 60s, stands as a potential solution for the housing and homelessness crisis that is hitting the U.S. Yet, financing conditions in this industry are very different from standard credit conditions in the traditional housing market. Chapter two attempts to measure the welfare consequences of lacking a fully developed credit market for affordable homes, with its focus on the bottom half of the U.S. income distribution. Attention here is placed on interest rates, duration of the loans and tax deductions, all of which, differ greatly between the two housing market segments. Finally, the third chapter explores the consequences of bad lending practices (the so called \textit{zombie lending} practices) that the banking industry sometimes engages in, and aims at quantifying the aggregate consequences of such practices at a macroeconomic level. Here, the case study is centered around Italy, a country where, according to recent evidence, these lending practices were particularly prevalent and harmful for the national economy.Item Finding Home: A Qualitative Study on Healing Homelessness through Expressive Arts Engagement(2019-07) Bueno, JoséThis phenomenological study seeks to expand the understanding of the impacts of expressive arts engagement on the mental health and trauma among homeless youth through the experiences of professionals working with those populations. Organizations across Massachusetts and Minnesota were selected based off their organizational mission statements for helping the homeless youth population, as well as referrals. This study demonstrates expressive arts engagement as one of the many tools in working through trauma and mental illness seen in the homeless youth population. Organizations should work towards the successful integration of the arts and healing mental illness found among youth homelessness.Item Housing Barriers and Resources for African Americans in East St Paul(2001) Lane, JamieItem Housing Survey for Union Members(2002) Goetz, Edward GItem Inventory of the Twin Cities' Affordable Housing Research Needs(1990) Duffy, Diane MItem Investigating an Affordable Housing Preservation Strategy(2003) Sjogren, MerrieItem John A Johnson Housing Opportunity Project Survey(2002) Davis, Laura M.Item Longfellow Housing Need and Neighborhood Demographic.(2004) Minneapolis Neighborhood Information SystemItem Minutes: Senate Committee on Social Concerns: November 4, 1999(1999-11-04) University of Minnesota: Senate Committee on Social ConcernsItem Item