Local & County Policy Reforms
- Minneapolis Affordable Housing Resolution (1998)
- Minneapolis Affordable
Housing Task Force (1999)
- Hennepin County Affordable
Housing Investment Fund,
$4 million allocation (2000)
- Ramsey County Affordable
Housing Endowment Fund, up
to $6 million allocation (2001)
- Minneapolis Affordable
Housing Transition Team
participation (2001)
- Hosted 2 Minneapolis Affordable Housing Summits (2002)
- Helped community coalition to defeat a Brooklyn Park ballot
initiative that threatened to displace 900 local residents (2004)
- Alliance launches community education effort to raise
awareness of Equitable Development strategies, holds
Community Benefit Agreement roundtables (2004)
- Community coalition formed around development issues at
Lexington & University Avenues in St. Paul — community
coalitions soon formed around University Avenue corridor
development and around transportation equity issues (2005)
- Digital Access+Equity Campaign launched to improve
Minneapolis WiFi proposal and bridge digital divide (2005)
Special Events
- TOUR de SPRAWL (1996-present):
Bicycle & Bus Tours in: Brooklyn Park, Chanhassen, Chaska, Cottage Grove, Eden Prairie, Hopkins, Lake Elmo, Landfall, Maple grove, Minneapolis, Minnetonka, Osseo, Savage, St. Louis Park, Stillwater, and Woodbury.
- Minneapolis Affordable Housing
Summits (January & April, 2002)
State Policy Reforms
- Comprehensive Choice Housing
Act (1994)
- Metro Fair Tax Base Act (1995)
- Livable Communities Act (1995)
- Brownsfields Campaign—Polluted
Land Redevelopment, $19.4
million in mostly new
appropriations (1997)
- Inclusionary Housing Account,
$8 million appropriation (1997)
- Moving Minnesota: multi-modal
transportation spending reform
(2000)
- Inclusionary Housing campaign,
Build Inclusive Coalition (2001;
2002)
- Helped Transit Partners coalition to pass historic
Transportation Choices 2020 bill on both the MN
House & Senate floors – measure is vetoed by Governor
Regional Policy Reforms
- Elm Creek Interceptor/Maple
Grove housing agreement; Housing
at the Crossroads Report, (1995)
- Metropolitan Council Regional
Growth Policy (1996)
- Livable Communities
Demonstration Account home
demolition exclusion (1996)
- Affordable housing preservation
advocacy, Inner City Reinvestment position paper (1997)
- Sewer Access Charge waiver to
Inclusionary Housing developments
(1999)
- Met Council “Alignment” policy,
Smart Spending Campaign
- Metropolitan Land Use Planning
Act, LUPA Accountability
Campaign
