Furthermore, our data, as shown in Charts 3 and 4 below, show that CPP allocations actually are associated with a significant disinvestment in all neighborhoods, and particularly in the more diverse and low-income neighborhoods.

Charts 3 and 4 below illustrate NRP Phase I and Phase II allocations compared to CPP allocations by community on a per capita basis. (“Communities” are long recognized groupings of neighborhoods across the City, and are one of the ways that Minnesota Compass organizes Census data. This grouping used by Minnesota Compass is a convenient way to aggregate the data.)

Chart 5, below, shows allocations broken down by community on a per capita basis for NRP Phase I, NRP Phase II, and CPP allocations.

If we examine the level of change by community from NRP to CPP, the differences are stunning. Chart 6 shows the difference between NRP Phase I allocations by community and CPP allocations by community on a per capita basis. The disinvestment in the most diverse neighborhoods of the City, such as Phillips and Near-North, are significantly greater than in less diverse and more affluent neighborhoods such as Nokomis or Southwest.

Our data comes primarily from two sources.

1. demographic data was downloaded from Minnesota Compass, using the five-year rolling American Community Survey data for 2015.
2. NRP allocations downloaded from the NRP PlanNet data base in November, 2019.

To measure diversity, we used the Shannon Diversity Index, a statistical formula commonly used in population and biology studies to weigh the relative diversity of a community.