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Join us on Thursday, October 4th for the Fifth Annual Minneapolis Trans
Equity Summit! Building on four years of
national leadership on trans equity, the City of Minneapolis is focusing this
year on Health and Wellness. Community members and organizations interested in
furthering transgender equity are encouraged to attend.
Trans Equity Summit
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4
Hennepin Theater Trust, 900 Hennepin Ave.
The summit will include breakout
sessions on the services available in Minnesota, overcoming barriers to care
and strategies for mental health resiliency.
The keynote address will be from
Minnesota native Kye Allums, who in 2010 became the first openly transgender
college athlete in NCAA Division I sports.
Hosted by the City of Minneapolis in
collaboration with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, the event is free
and open to the public. Register here and find more information at www.minneapolismn.gov/TransEquity.
When: Friday, September 14,12:00 - 1:00pm
Where: Butter Bakery Cafe, 3700 Nicollet Ave.
Join us for a midday discussion about housing policy centered around
the DRAFT Minneapolis 2040
Comprehensive Plan.
We will be joined by housing policy expert Jim Kumon, Executive
Director, Incremental Development Alliance, Tawanna Black, CEO Center
for Economic Inclusion and Andrea Brennan, Housing Policy and
Development Director, City of Minneapolis.
The conversation will engage Ward 8 residents around equitable development
and inclusionary growth.
View the Facebook event here. We will see you on September 14!
The City is now accepting applications for a new 21-member Minneapolis
Advisory Committee on Housing, a panel that will advise City leaders on all
aspects of housing policy. Applications are due Oct. 5.
The formation of the committee comes
as Minneapolis faces significant housing challenges including a shortage of
affordable housing, homelessness and housing instability, and record low
availability of rentals and affordable homes for purchase. The committee will
be staffed by employees from the Community Planning and Economic Development
(CPED), Regulatory Services and Health departments.
The committee will include 12 resident
members reflecting the diversity of Minneapolis and perspectives from renters,
homeowners, people who have experienced homelessness, rental property owners
and affordable housing advocates.
It will also include nine
representatives from organizations that work on housing issues, including one
from each of the following:
- Hennepin
County Continuum of Care Operating Committee of Heading Home Hennepin.
- Minneapolis
Public Schools.
- The
Minneapolis Public Housing Authority.
- An
organization that provides emergency or overnight shelter services in
Minneapolis.
- An
organization that advocates for renters.
- A
nonprofit community development organization.
- An
organization that advocates for rental property owners.
- An
organization that supports homeownership and the elimination of racial
disparities in homeownership rates.
- An
organization that works for equity in housing, including preventing involuntary
displacement of people in low-income communities of color.
Visit the City’s
website for
application requirements and more information. Applications will be reviewed by
City staff with input from Mayor Jacob Frey’s office and the City Council
Housing Policy and Development Committee, which will vote on recommended
members and then forward the recommendation to the full City Council for
consideration. The City Council will appoint eight of the 12 resident representatives
and the mayor will appoint four.
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