Racial Equity Impact Analysis (REIA)

The Racial Equity Impact Analysis helps the City consider racial equity outcomes when shaping policies, practices, programs and budgets.

Fall 2024 brownfield grants from the Metropolitan Council’s Tax Base Revitalization Account (TBRA), and Hennepin County’s Environmental Response Fund (ERF) - REIA

Section 1: Background

Does this impact one of the City's Goal Areas

Policy Goals

Operational Goals

Public Safety	No
Housing	Yes
Economic Development	Yes
Public Services	No
Environmental Justice	No
Built Environment & Transportation	No
Public Health	No
Arts & Culture	No

Workforce	No
Spending	Yes
Data	No
Community Engagement	No

Describe the impact on selected goal areas.

Some of these grant awards will help cover certain redevelopment costs related to affordable housing projects, and in that sense they will help advance the City's existing policy of facilitating or creating more such housing. Some of the remaining grant funds will help cover certain costs related to commercial (economic development) projects that are important to the City.

Who participated in completing this analysis?

Staff from CPED Business Development

Section 2: Data

LIST THE SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIES THAT WILL BE IMPACTED AND THE RACIAL DEMOGRAPHICS OF CONSTITUENTS IN THOSE AREAS:

Several areas of the City will be favorably impacted by the grant awards in question. No analysis of the racial demographics of the constituents in those areas has been conducted to date in the specific context of these grant awards, in part because those constituents presumably support the grant-funded removal of environmental contaminants from their respective neighborhoods.

What does available data tell you about how constituents from BIPOC communities currently relate to the desired outcome as compared to white constituents?

We have not conducted this type of analysis, in part because we consider it likely that BIPOC communities and white residents are equally supportive of grant-funded environmental remediation.

What data is unavailable or missing? How can you obtain additional data?

The impact of these grant awards on BIPOC communities.

Section 3: Community Engagement

Using the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Public Participation Spectrum, which participation strategy(s) was used when engaging those who would be most impacted?

Inform	Yes
Consult	No
Involve	No
Collaborate	No
Empower	No

Describe the Engagement and what have you learned?

Information about the November 1, 2024 grant applications that resulted in these grant awards appeared in a City staff report that is a matter of public record and available on the City's web site.

Section 4: Analysis

How does the outcome for this ordinance, amendment, or policy help the city achieve Racial Equity?

Given the fact that the housing projects that will benefit from this grant funding are affordable housing, they will likely serve lower-income individuals and thereby help achieve racial equity in that sense.

Section 5: Evaluation

How will impacts be measured? What are the success indicators and process benchmarks?

How will those who are impacted be informed of progress over time?

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