Preventing displacement, maximizing community benefits

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Ensuring the Blue Line Extension benefits current and future corridor residents, communities and businesses is critical to the project's success. This new light rail line will serve areas with some of the region's most significant disparities in income, health, and housing. This project presents an exciting opportunity to help communities build wealth in place, attract community and economic development investments, and improve lives and neighborhoods. However, intentional strategies and policies are needed to maximize community benefits, and minimize displacement.

For the first time ever, the Metropolitan Council and Hennepin County are convening an Anti-displacement Workgroup that will center community voices and bring together a variety of partners and stakeholders to advance and implement robust anti-displacement strategies that help ensure the value of light rail will benefit current corridor residents, and minimize physical, cultural, and economic displacement.

This effort will require many partners coming together to strategize and take action. To advance this work, the Blue Line Extension project has contracted with the University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) who will convene and coordinate work of the Anti-displacement Workgroup.

This work will be ongoing throughout the life of the project, and beyond with a focus on both short- and long-term solutions.

Share your experience and offer input below to help guide this critical work.

Ensuring the Blue Line Extension benefits current and future corridor residents, communities and businesses is critical to the project's success. This new light rail line will serve areas with some of the region's most significant disparities in income, health, and housing. This project presents an exciting opportunity to help communities build wealth in place, attract community and economic development investments, and improve lives and neighborhoods. However, intentional strategies and policies are needed to maximize community benefits, and minimize displacement.

For the first time ever, the Metropolitan Council and Hennepin County are convening an Anti-displacement Workgroup that will center community voices and bring together a variety of partners and stakeholders to advance and implement robust anti-displacement strategies that help ensure the value of light rail will benefit current corridor residents, and minimize physical, cultural, and economic displacement.

This effort will require many partners coming together to strategize and take action. To advance this work, the Blue Line Extension project has contracted with the University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) who will convene and coordinate work of the Anti-displacement Workgroup.

This work will be ongoing throughout the life of the project, and beyond with a focus on both short- and long-term solutions.

Share your experience and offer input below to help guide this critical work.

Page last updated: 03 Mar 2023, 02:22 PM