On February 22, 2018, the Minneapolis Neighborhood and Community Relations Department (NCR) released the “Neighborhoods 2020 Roadmap.”

After the community expressed strong distrust and many questions about the process followed by NCR in developing the following Framework, in May 2019, the City Council directed the City Coordinator’s office to “collaborate with consultant to complete the resident-led process of furthering the Neighborhoods 2020 framework and developing program guidelines at the ‘Collaborate’ level of engagement based on the International Association of Public Participation Spectrum.” (City of Minneapolis, undated).

In their reporting to date, CURA draws several conclusions about the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) that for more than twenty years has provided significant funding for bottom-up, resident-based planning through neighborhood organizations.

Among these conclusions:

• Historical allocations were not based on a racial equity premises.
• The primary benefactor [sic] of this work is white homeowners.
• Some neighborhoods still have large NRP dollar balances and have not programmed a way to spend them.
• The outcome of the work is racial inequity (institutional racism) largely driven by NRP allocations.
• CPP was more equitable than NRP.

Our goal in this study is to test these conclusions by providing additional analysis based on more complete data sets.

Edited on January 31, 2020 to improve formatting and add links.