Housing

Fighting youth homelessness: Provide housing — and help finding a job

By Cynthia Boyd, MinnPost

Rich Evans in the commons room at Nicollet Square: "It gives me a chance to be independent and a place to go when I want to be alone." (MinnPost photo by John Noltner)

For Rich Evans, his own place at Nicollet Square is a far cry from the days he waited in line for a bed at a downtown Minneapolis homeless shelter.

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MN VIDEOS | Immigrant Freedom Seder's message to Minnesota's elected leaders

By JCA, MN Videos

On Sunday, March 17th, 2013, 200 people attended Jewish Community Action's 11th Annual Immigrant Freedom Seder. The event brings together our members alongside allies from many different communities to tell the story of Passover and, drawing from our values, to share our plans and hopes for working together to build a more just Minnesota.

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Healing a broken world: A profile of Jewish Community Action's Vic Rosenthal

By Allison Herrera, The Uptake

Jewish doctors and lawyers in Minnesota in the 1950s were notoriously discriminated against. You weren’t allowed admitting privileges. You couldn’t become a partner in a law firm if you were Jewish. It’s a history that Vic Rosenthal knows well, and it’s one of the reasons he does what he does.

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Survey shows statewide increase in homelessness, solutions remain elusive

By Terry Carter, KFAI Radio

The Wilder Foundation recently released its annual statewide study of homelessness. The study found that homelessness has increased by 6 per cent since 2009.

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Renting, from rats to riches

By Mary Turck, News Day

Photo by Shane Adams  Creative Commons license. 

I remember paying $65 a month rent for one of my first apartments, which I shared with a 70-something-year-old nun named Sister Mary Edward.

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Thirteen arrested in anti-foreclosure protest at Wells Fargo

By Ed Felien, Southside Pride

(Photo by T.K.)

Thirteen people were peacefully arrested at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage on 26th Street Feb. 27 demanding turnover of vacant homes to community control and fair banking practices.

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Does Minneapolis have a 'failure of frontage'?

By Sam Newberg, Streets.MN

Do cities have a “failure of frontage?” I credit Dan Parolek of Opticos Design for coining the term. When I was researching my post on form-based codes in the Bay Area, Dan explained he believes cities everywhere have a failure of frontage, that we focus so much on other elements of urbanism that we overlook the basics. We worry about shape, height, bulk, ever-evil DENSITY, parking and traffic problems, but we fail to do the simple thing and make the building engaging to the pedestrian. We have a failure of frontage, and it’s not unique to Minneapolis.

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A "high-rise Animal House"? Opus faces neighbors' questions about its planned Dinkytown development

By Bill Huntzicker, TC Daily Planet

A rendering of the proposed development

The proposed Opus mixed-use building in Dinkytown would become a “high-rise ‘Animal House’” that “is equivalent to an on-campus dormitory in the middle of a business district,” says Jason McLean, owner and general manager of the Loring Pasta Bar and Varsity Theater.

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E-DEMOCRACY | Neighbors take sides as squatters move into 3325 2nd Ave S, Minneapolis

By Multiple authors, E-Democracy issues forums

From: John Gall Date: Mar 09

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Minneapolis: New complex to displace Sally's for nine months

By Kelsey Shirriff, The Minnesota Daily

Students may return from break this fall and find another Stadium Village facelift underway.

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