2019-08-05_Bloomberg_Businessweek-Europe_Edition

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August5, 2019

Minneapolis has a grand


plan to make housing more


affordable. Inside the fight for the


future of an American city


The 2040 plan
aims to strike
ablow against
decades-long
racial inequities
inhousing,
visible in places
such as north
Minneapolis

Residentsof
theWedgeled
agrassroots
campaign,
Neighborsfor
MoreNeighbors,
infavorofthe
city’splan

CityHall Mississippi
River

70% of the city’s
residential land
is zoned for
single-family
homes

◼ Single-family
detached
homes only
◼Allother
residential
Commercial
and other

“Don’t 
Bulldoze Our
Neighborhoods”
lawn signs
sprouted in
tony areas
around the
Chain of Lakes
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