We invite you to read A Response to CURA, a study commissioned by several Minneapolis neighborhood associations. You can access it here online, and it is also attached to this email along with its appendix.

A Response to CURA challenges the deeply flawed Racial Equity analysis conducted by the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) for the Minneapolis City Council. It tests many of CURA’s findings with analysis of more complete data sets than those used by CURA.

The CURA analysis wrongly claims that the City’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) — which, since it began in 1991, has received national acclaim for having engaged thousands of residents across the city in community-building activities and investments, and which was championed especially by Mayors Fraser and Sayles Belton — was an example of institutional racism.

CURA used deeply flawed research to propose a funding formula to succeed NRP's that would drastically cut, or even eliminate, city funding to many neighborhood organizations, the very entities that planned and executed decades of NRP work.

Mary Bujold
Dave Ellis
Arthur Himmelman
Jana L. Metge
Mary Pattock
Carin Peterson
Gary Simpson
J.L. Strand

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