Goal Statement   

To ensure transportation and related community development reflects democratic community participation and has economically and racially equitable outcomes. 

Strategies   

• Property tax mitigation for low- and median- income residents

• Construction mitigation for small businesses 

Local, regional and national cases

• Central Corridor Light Rail in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 

Glossary of Terms

• eminent domain: the right of the government to acquire private property for a public purpose, provided the owner receives "just compensation" for that property^[1]

• environmental justice: the goal of equitable and proportionate outcomes across racial differences for all environmental and spatial policies, projects, and phenomena; the condition in which the environmental harms and benefits of projects are equitable and proportionately distributed across racial and spatial difference; the global/local movements working at the intersections of antiracism and environmentalism to pursue such outcomes^[2]

• gentrification: the process through which higher income households displace lower income residents of a neighborhood, changing the essential flavor of that neighborhood^[3]

• homestead: the condition in which a residential property owner also occupies that property as a resident

• neoliberalism: the late-20th and early 21st century resurgence of policies, including transportation policies and developments, that advocate a return to market values and redistribute resources and power to the upper strata of society^[4]

• racial disparity: the difference in outcomes of a policy across lines of racial difference, and the conditions that help to shape how policies are experienced based on race

• racial justice: the creation and proactive reinforcement of policies, practices, attitudes and actions that produce equitable power, access, opportunities, treatment, impaces and outcomes across all racial groups^[5]

• voluntary rent control: the commitment on the part of a rental property owner to maintain affordability for residents by keeping rent increases as incremental as possible, to increase rents in keeping or even below inflation

Bibliography    

• Grengs, Joe. (2005). The Abandoned Social Goals of Public Transit in the Neoliberal City of the USA. City,

  9(1), 51-66.

• Executive Order 12898 of February 11, 1994.

• Keleher, Terry. Racial Justice Leadership. Chicago: Applied Research Center, 2008. Original edition 2000.

• Neighbors Standing Together to Save Our Homes and Preserve Our Community. St. Paul, MN.

• Organizing Apprenticeship Project. Minneapolis, MN.