- The housing arm of the Minneapolis Metropolitan Council is the Metro Housing and Redevelopment Authority (MHRA). Their website is HERE.
- MHRA directly administers both Public Housing and Section 8 vouchers. More than 6,600 units (which may include LIHTC and project based Section 8) are funded or administered by MHRA.
- In their HUD required 5 year plan HERE (MS Word) you will see that MHRA recently received HUD approval to convert their small 150 public housing unit program to project based Section 8 housing assistance and their voucher administration includes 283 project based section 8 vouchers.
- A draft July 2009 report (A Comprehensive Strategy to Integrate Twin Cities Schools and Neighborhoods) from Orfield provides the same kinds of analysis for the Minneapolis region as was presented in the Portland Metro analysis, and a LOT more. Beginning towards bottom of page 27 of that analysis HERE, affordable housing programs (including LIHTC, project based section 8, and HUD vouchers) are examined AND changes in the distribution of that supply are used to illustrate how affordable housing might make a MAJOR contribution to solving the problems of African American racial segregation. Some of the report findings:
IF anyone has additional thoughts/follow up from the three sessions held in Portland, I invite you to post them as comments below so all interested can get a better feel for discussions held in all of the sessions.In 2004, there were 17,109 Section 8 vouchers used for housing in the Twin Cities. The vouchers contributed to residential segregation because, as Map 13 shows, they were used disproportionately in the central cities and stressed suburbs. The central cities contained less than 23 percent of the region’s population but they had 47 percent of the metro’s Section 8 vouchers.
....Fifty-eight percent of black households used their vouchers in the central cities while only 46 percent of all the Section 8 voucher users were located in the central cities.
LIHTC ...units are disproportionately located in Minneapolis neighborhoods, where the share of minority and low-income residents are already high. The map also highlights the concentration of LIHTC units within Minneapolis in “qualified census tracts,” demonstrating how the program’s incentives to locate units in these tracts contributes to residential segregation within Minneapolis as well.
Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.
Hi Tom, sent you an e-mail regarding this post then realized how to actually create a post. Anyway, I am suggestion that, per the Housing Land Advocates comments to Metro on Oct. 15 on their UGR, that Metro adopt a comprehensive affordable housing, land use and transportation policy. This will eliminate the silo effect we see when measuring transit decisions by the performance measure of whether they move large numbers of people from point a to point b. A good starting point for a discussion on what such a policy will look like will be on November 9 when there will be a free webaire to discuss how this type of policy will be fleshed out on the federal level. Here is the registration info:
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Hi Tom, I have a map created by the Housing Authority of Portland in May 2009.It maps the change in the number of Section 8 leased up vouchers, by zip code, over the past 10 years. Will locate and send so you can post. It is a stark demonstration of the lack of affordable housing opportunities for low-income households with housing assistance. There is a major shift of voucher holders out of West and the inner S.E., N.E and N. Portland into the far outer Eastern Portland and into Gresham. For most of the increase in E. Portland and Gresham, the amount of change is over 100%. Clearly demonstrates Orfield's analysis that poverty is being concentrated within certain geographical areas.
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