New study on affordable housing rekindles long-simmering debate

New study on affordable housing rekindles long-simmering debate

Last month, the Institute for Metropolitan Opportunity, a research office on regional equity based at the University of Minnesota Law School, released a report criticizing how the state allocates affordable housing. The study focuses on how decades of housing investment, estimated at over $1 billion of public money, has failed to improve social outcomes in the struggling Phillips neighborhood in south Minneapolis. Written by the institute’s dire…