Housing Survey for Union Members

Submitted to Locals of American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees; Service Employees International Union; United Food and Commercial Workers; and Jobs and Affordable Housing Campaign, Family an

Report on Homeowner Survey Responses for Dayton's Bluff NHS

Prepared for the East Side Work Resource Hub. Sponsored by the East Side Community Outreach Partnership Center coordinated through the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota under a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Impact of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program on Neighborhood Organizations.

The inauguration of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program in 1991 and the unprecedented level of funding it provides to neighborhood groups gives the program the potential to significantly affect neighborhoods and their organizations. This study looks at the impact of NRP on three neighborhood organizations: the Whittier Alliance, the Stevens Square Community Organization, and the Jordan Area Community Council. Intensive in-person interviews with neighborhood activists and city staff members revealed the changes each neighborhood group went through as they prepared their NRP plan. The study concludes that NRP in deepening the bias toward middle class, white property owners and that in two of the neighborhoods it has increased factionalism. A summary of the study appeared in the June 1994 CURA Reporter

Housing Needs and Markets in Rochester and Olmsted County. Summary of a Report to the Rochester/Olmsted Community Housing Partnership, Inc.

A 1990 study of housing in Olmsted County found that families in lower and very low income categories as well as special populations are having problems obtaining suitable housing in this wealthy part of the state. A CURA Reporter article in April 1990 also summarized the study.A cooperative venture between the authors and the Rochester Department of Planning and Housing, with the support of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota. Funded by the Rochester Area Foundation

Advancing the human right to housing in post-Katrina New Orleans: discursive opportunity structures in housing and community development

In post-Katrina New Orleans, housing and community development (HCD) advocates clashed over the future of public housing. This case study examines the evolution of and limits to a human right to housing frame introduced by one nongovernmental organization (NGO). Ferree’s concept of the discursive opportunity structure and Bourdieu’s social field ground this NGO’s failure to advance a radical economic human rights frame, given its choice of a political inside strategy that opened up for HCD NGOs after Hurricane Katrina. Strategic and ideological differences within the field limited the efficacy of this rights-based frame, which was seen as politically radical and risky compared with more resonant frames for seeking affordable housing resources and development opportunities. These divides flowed from the position of the movement-born HCD field within a neoliberal political economy, especially its current institutionalization in the finance and real estate sector, and its dependence on the state for funding and political legitimacy