Websites

More on Affordable Housing

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)

Minneapolis Mayor's office

Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED)

Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA)

Hennepin County Community Works Department

Family Housing Fund

Metropolitan Design Center

Publications

u The Metropolitan Design Center has developed a number of educational materials that include posters, density fact sheets, and housing design issues sheets on topics related to developing housing on corridors 

u The Design Center for American Urban Landscape's Livable Community Fact Sheets provide data, in a standard format, on specific projects and environments that seek to make more livable and sustainable places

u Minneapolis Zoning Basics, by the Center for Neighborhoods

u The Development Handbook for Neighborhoods, by the Center for Neighborhoods

u Mixed Use Development in the Twin Cities: Issues and Best Practices, Oct. 2003, by Local Initiatives Support Corporation

u Proposals for current Corridor Housing Initiative projects: North Nicollet Avenue (submitted by Citizens for a Loring Park Community), East Lake Street (submitted by Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association), South Nicollet Avenue (submitted by Kingfield Neighborhood Association)

u Nicollet Avenue Traffic and Parking Management Study, Sept. 2003, by Bonestroo Rosene Anderlik and Associates, Inc: The Center has a hard copy, or you may access a synopsis here

u The Face of Affordable Housing, by the Design Center for American Urban Landscape (more information about recent housing projects can be accessed here)

u The Community Economic Development Handbook: Strategies and Tools to Revitalize Your Neighborhood, 2002, by Mihailo Temali

u Downtown Minneapolis Condominium Market Report, Aug. 2003, by Maxfield Research, Inc.

u 15th & Nicollet Mixed-Use Development, Aug. 2002, by The Cornerstone Group