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Item The CREATE Initiative Policy Toolkit: Sharing In the Benefits of a Greening City(2020) Swift, Kaleigh; Klein, Mira"What are ways that we can envision greening as a way to create a more equitable and just world?" The CREATE Initiative, an interdisciplinary group of scholars, community leaders, and engaged researchers funded by the University of Minnesota's Grand Challenges Research Initiative, works to tackle issues at the intersection of environment and equity. In this video, research associate Mira Klein and program coordinator Kaleigh Swift of the CREATE Initiative describe the scope and purpose of the initiative's policy toolkit. The toolkit aims to redesign existing anti-displacement policy tools to provide guidance for institutions and organizations working with communities of color and low-income communities who face displacement as a result of green gentrification, housing crisis, and historic inequities. Klein and Swift discuss the process of creating the toolkit, explain its goals and strategies, and share their hopes for its implementation: "There's a clear relationship between environmental justice types of work and housing work. If people are able to make that connection, that's really important." Listen to Humphrey School assistant professor Bonnie Keeler discuss the CREATE Initiative in more detail in this Civios podcast: https://hdl.handle.net/11299/218236Item Episode 10: Examining Racially Concentrated Areas of Affluence in the US(2017-12-13) Goetz, Ed; Conners, Kate"Contemporary federal housing policy in the United States has largely focused on racially segregated areas with high levels of poverty, known as racially concentrated areas of poverty (RCAPs). In this podcast, Ed Goetz, professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, examines the other side of this dynamic—concentrated areas of white affluence. Goetz, director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, discusses his work to identify and understand racially concentrated areas of affluence (RCAAs). ""When we started our study, we were actually responding to advocates for low income communities who maintained that this single-minded focus on their communities problematized their communities, stigmatized their communities, and ignored the other half of the segregation formula—which is of course the ability and tendency of white people to seclude themselves into neighborhoods,"" says Goetz. ""So we tried to look at the other side of the coin."""Item Episode 26: The CREATE Initiative: Research at the Intersection of Environment and Equity(2020-02-17) Keeler, Bonnie; Foy, Melanie SommerBonnie Keeler, assistant professor in the science, technology, and environmental policy area at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, discusses her work with the CREATE Initiative. In founding the initiative, Keeler and University of Minnesota geography professor Kate Derickson sought to combine their research areas in a program that addresses issues at the intersection of environment and equity using interdisciplinary, community-engaged, mission-driven scholarship. Groups of CREATE graduate researchers have partnered with members of the Policy Think Tank—a team of community leaders from Minnesota, Atlanta, and elsewhere—to consider the context of historic racial inequality in cities and understand community members' concerns as cities increasingly invest in policies to address climate change and improve urban sustainability. The CREATE Initiative has also developed an action-oriented policy toolkit to help community members advocate for the benefits of greening initiatives to reach their communities without engendering displacement.Item The Geography of Poverty in America(2018-08) Allard, Scott"Poverty problems are problems for everybody," says Scott W. Allard, Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. Allard's book Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty explores the rise in poverty in America's suburbs over the past three decades. In this video, Allard discusses how the shifting geography of poverty — in combination with the persistent poverty problems in urban centers — poses new challenges for public and nonprofit assistance programs. "Ultimately our ability to tackle poverty effectively is going to hinge on whether we see it [poverty] as a shared fate," he says.Item Homeownership and Affordability for Low-Income Suburban Households. A Report on Permanently Affordable Homeownership in West Suburban Hennepin County.(St. Louis Park: West Hennepin Human Service Planning Board., 1992) Tennebaum, Judith KItem Housing Assistance for Culturally Specific Groups(1999) Scott, Terri M.Item Indigenous Suburbs: Settler Colonialism, Housing Policy, and American Indians in Suburbia(2016-05) Keeler, KaseyThis dissertation analyzes the suburbs of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota as historically Indian places and demonstrates the continuous residency of American Indians in suburbs. In order to uncover the indigenous history of the suburban Twin Cities, I use an interdisciplinary methodology that includes a demographic analysis of U.S. Census data, a close reading of historical archives, and auto-ethnography based on my personal experiences as a suburban Indian to challenge common narratives of suburbia and to underscore the participation of American Indian people in the processes of suburbanization. Part one of this dissertation focuses on the years between the end of the U.S.-Dakota War (1862) and the start of World War I. Here, I argue Indian people were engaged in the early development of Indian places into suburbs despite policies to remove Indian people and the growing number of non-Native settlers who eclipsed an Indian presence. In part two, I focus on the policies that shaped suburbia and Indian Country during the second half of the twentieth century. I examine the role of World War II era federal housing policies that promoted suburbanization and new home construction, specifically the 1944 G.I. Bill home loan program. My analysis interrogates how the federal Indian policies of Relocation and Termination prevented American Indian suburbanization and homeownership and critiques the more recent Section 184 American Indian Home Loan Program. I problematize scholarship in American studies, urban studies, and suburban studies by challenging narratives of suburbia that predominately focus on whiteness, domesticity, and homeownership in the post-World War II period.Item Municipal Housing Policy in Minnesota.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota; School of Public Affairs; and Office of Local and Urban Affairs, 1977) CURAItem Navigating a Gentrifying Neighborhood: Examining the Impact of a HOPE VI Mixed Income Housing Development on the Social Connectedness of Young People(2020-07) Calhoun, MollyNeighborhood redevelopment creates inevitable disruption in the lives of young people, particularly through the demolition of social communities. For almost 30 years, public housing neighborhoods have been completely demolished to make way for mixed income housing developments in increasingly coveted urban spaces. The mixed income housing model, a form of state-sponsored gentrification, increases investment in historically disinvested areas and socially and economically “mixes” residents across racial and economic lines. This study examined the effect of a HOPE VI mixed income redevelopment process in the South Lincoln public housing development in Denver, Colorado, on the social connections of youth. Young people’s experiences of residential transition and social connectedness were examined through constructivist grounded theory, as well as a combination of descriptive statistics, egocentric social network analysis and geographic information systems (GIS) mapping to assess the size, strength, and spatial nature of social connections. Eighteen young people described the redevelopment as gentrification that was driven by race, profit, and power. They illuminated the loss of home as a reinforcement of harm through neighborhood redevelopment, continued social connection despite diminished community connectedness, and overall nuances from sharing their own story. The findings illustrate the critical nature of centering young people through social justice initiatives and investments as well as the integration of critical race theory as a perspective that informs the model of mixed income housing.Item Neoliberal Housing Policy: Adaptation for Housing Frameworks in Latin America(2016-11) Lee, Ka YanHousing stock within Latin American counties is in critical condition as population continues to flourish. To alleviate this epidemic of housing shortage, current housing policy frameworks are examined for events in the past that caused the framework to fail. What is the best solution to boost affordable housing? Through an investigation of housing policy evolution of two comparison cities of Rio de Janeiro and Guatemala City policy frameworks are examined through economic structure and housing system. A solution to the failed housing frameworks is to incorporate neoliberal housing ideals of utilizing the private market to play a role in providing affordable housing in the cities. Through the analysis of Rio de Janeiro and Guatemala City, this paper examines the differences in public policies on housing and identifying how neoliberalism impacts housing policies differ from traditional frameworks. In addition, the paper challenges neoliberal housing ideals and the practicalities for today’s housing climate behind radical ideals.Item Twin Cities Conversions of the Real Estate Kind.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota., 1981) Lukermann, Barbara LItem The Use of Markets in Social Policy: Welfare Recipients as Market Participants(2017-08) Colburn, GreggThe structure of welfare benefits has a material impact on the experiences and outcomes of beneficiaries. Historically, many governments provided supply-side welfare benefits in which the state provided direct provision of goods or services (i.e. public housing). Since the 1970’s, many governments have increasingly provided demand-side benefits, such as vouchers and cash transfers, in which recipients use the benefits to procure goods and services in the private market. A fundamental reality of demand-side subsidies—largely ignored by the scholarly community—is that the use of such subsidies turns welfare beneficiaries into market participants. Because the recipients of demand-side subsidies must enter the market to use the benefit, the terms on which they do so may have a significant effect on the outcomes produced by these social policies. It is, therefore, the experiences of welfare beneficiaries in the private market that serves as the foundation of this study. This study presents the concept of a market position to help understand the experiences of welfare recipients in the private market. The Market Position Framework is introduced as a tool to analyze market positions and the framework is applied to social programs in the U.S. and in Europe. Market positions are defined and compared and the relationship between market positions and market outcomes is examined. The study demonstrates that market positions are constituted by a set of social, political, economic, and individual factors. The analysis highlights how social and political contexts combine with program conditions to explain variation in market positions. The study also finds an association between market positions and market outcomes—stronger market positions are associated with better outcomes. This study offers a unique perspective on the analysis of social policies that is missing from conventional welfare state scholarship that focuses solely on the relative generosity of programs. This approach may be used by policymakers, advocates, and scholars to help explain the market outcomes of welfare recipients. Importantly, these tools may help to explain welfare program outcomes that may, in certain circumstances, deviate from the stated goals and objectives of that program.