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The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Presents
The CURA Housing Forum:
A monthly "brown bag" discussion of Twin Cities housing issues and
research.

"Using GIS for Community Development"

Friday, February 25, 12:00 - 1:30
University of Minnesota, West Bank
Carlson School of Management, Room 2-215

> Kris Nelson, NPCR Program Director
> Jeff Matson, GIS Coordinator
> Elena Gaarder, Executive Director, Powderhorn Park Neighborhood
Association
> Margo Dean, Community Development Director, Northside Residents
Redevelopment Council


Since 1997, CURA has been working with community revitalization
organizations in the Twin Cites to increase their capacity to use GIS
(geographic information systems) for neighborhood revitalization and
community development. This involves partnerships between university
resources, community-based organizations, and public agencies. This
forum focuses on the Minneapolis Neighborhood Information System
(MNIS) project and M3D. MNIS resulted in greater access to online
data and the development of an early warning system to identify and
map "at-risk" residential properties in Minneapolis neighborhoods.
M3D, our current project, brings together labor market and origin-
destination data on jobs and workers, and community level data to
analyze and influence the spatial mismatch of growing employment and
housing opportunities in the metropolitan area. M3D involves a
partnership with several state agencies, including the Department of
Employment and Economic Development, and Twin Cities' metropolitan
community development organizations and agencies.

Please RSVP by Wednesday, February 23 at 612-625-1551. For more
information call Kaydee Kirk at 612-625-2086. www.cura.umn.edu