COVID-19 Racial Equity Impact Analysis
The Racial Equity Impact Analysis helps the City consider racial equity outcomes when shaping policies, practices, programs and budgets.
Amendment to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 2020 Consolidated Plan Action Plan for Additional COVID-19 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG-CV) Supplemental Funding - REIA
Finance and Property Services and Community Planning and Economic Development staff
As data is showing both nationally and locally within Minneapolis, BIPOC populations are more likely to be affected by COVID-19 and low-income residents where BIPOC residents are overrepresented are disproportionately affected by the job losses/furloughs occurring in the local economy. Programming decisions need to account for a focus on equitable distribution of CDBG-CV resources for the benefit of BIPOC residents.
Benefits of these resource investments will accrue to low-income community residents that are disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus. Needs identified through the planning process indicate that loss of income precipitated by stay-at-home orders and associated pandemic impacts affect residents’ ability to pay for basic needs and shelter. The pandemic has also exacerbated existing structural socio-economic problems known in Minneapolis such as precarious housing stability, homelessness, inequity in health care access, and low wage workforce conditions. Proposed funding investments under the 2020 HUD Consolidated Plan Amendment will bring needed resources to address these issues as they present themselves to Minneapolis low-income residents.
As with existing HUD resources that the City deploys in the community, staff continually evaluate and work to mitigate unintended consequences of programming decisions that negatively impact BIPOC and low-income persons. It is proposed to work delivery of programming through existing processes and organizations that have demonstrated ability to positively service BIPOC, low-income residents.