urbanMSP

If nothing else, it should be obvious the tremendous disparities in the incarceration rate can't be explained by simply controlling for socioeconomic status.

EDIT: welp, should have clicked the link. What amiller92 said.

This thread is Changing Hearts and Minds! It is illustrating who thinks unfairly harassing a group of outdoor activity enthusiasts is a more grave issue than the unfair harassment of an entire people. I'm running on Sunday, and I have been training and paid some good money to participate. I just ca...

Also sort of dubious about the wisdom of this perpetual escalation of the stakes, as if BLM is asking "Do you care about criminal justice more than your daily commute? Your day at the fair? Your marathon training?" While there's nothing inherently wrong about raising that question, you're ...

I definitely support BLM's underlying objectives, but I do think there's a difference between causing some disruption in a large group of people's everyday lives and targeting a smaller group of people on a day that's very personally important to them. The latter feels pointlessly malicious, like if...

Except access to education is so closely tied to geography and neighborhood demographics as to be virtually the same issue. The greatest impacts of housing segregation are probably felt through the schools, and the greatest costs are probably borne by schoolchildren, for whom isolation results in pe...

I'd love to know how the panelists think communities of color got to be so disadvantaged, if not discrimination incident to segregation. Sigh.

https://twitter.com/People4Alondra/status/649372092454977537?s=09 Heh. Ha, I was coming here to post this pretty ridiculous line from the forum. The whole thing seemed like a covert attempt to rally the community against the ongoing HUD fair housing complaint against the Met Council and the cities....

I personally don't want to be fodder for the Onion.....unless Minneapolis is a serious potential suitor. If it were my choice, as much as I'd love the city to get international exposure like it's never had before and will never have again (way more than the Super Bowl), I would never want the city/...

That article is a little bit all over the place. The Hamline Station project referenced is only four stories. Two more could have been added while still being stick-built - why did that not happen? That would have at least lowered the per-unit cost. I would guess there were height or parking concer...

I'll support this as soon as Eden Prairie and Minnetonka introduce something similar. Also, this flies in the face of state law. You can't force a landlord to participate in section 8. I believe this is correct -- you'd need a change in state law. But there could be something I'm missing. Your firs...

I saw the word "redesign" and fully expected another iteration of the incredibly low-information tabletized picturebook format that has been slowly overtaking every other news site in recent years, but, honestly, it's actually pretty good. The scrolling headlines on the current Strib site ...

The Met Council has a well-documented tendency to overestimate growth in the core areas; not surprised they're having to revise those predictions downwards.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/10/31/red-sox-win-boston-back-being-loathed/ Right, Hamilton Nolan has been the most gleeful and vitriolic of Boston’s critics, slashing at the city at the slightest provocation. He told me that he hates Boston sports fans and the whole genre of white-ga...

I loved how, a month ago, the Pioneer Press had a little tournament to come up with a Saint Paul Eat Street, so it could have one like MInneapolis does. And the winner was... Payne Avenue, with a grand total of eight mostly unremarkable restaurants scattered through a desolate mile-long stretch. htt...

Alright, I'm in favor the Hennepin development and all, but honestly, that Denver church looks ridiculous.

And while we're at it, check out these charts, showing the increased racial concentration in schools and housing near transit stops:

Look, I don't know exactly where all of this subsidized housing is now or where people want it to go -- if someone has someone has some good maps, it would help shed light on things.

Also, I actually do have maps! Yes, it comes from Myron Orfield.

What you're missing is that heavily focusing subsidized housing on transit doesn't reduce sprawl -- it CREATES it. You can't directly control the private market, and if middle- and upper-income homebuyers believe they can escape lower incomes by fleeing to the outer rings, that's exactly what they'l...

It's not that you're wrong about the importance of controlling sprawl, it's that you can't apply different rules to subsidized and unsubsidized housing without creating ghettos. Also, in practice, locating housing on transit lines has meant prioritizing BRT, LRT, and the high frequency bus network. ...

But one could also argue that where we're placing affordable housing right now - like in already poor, sometimes crime-filled neighborhoods - we're failing to truly provide safe housing. A lot of poor families do have cars and won't get rid of them just because they have affordable housing near tra...