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05/29/2026

Today's issue of The Link, our regional equity and organizing newsletter, looks at artificial intelligence (AI) and the data centers that power it from an equity lens.

How has this technology impacted communities fighting for housing justice and environmental justice?

How have frontline communities across race, class, and geography been impacted?

We highlight policy recommendations from local organizations African American Leadership Forum Twin Cities, Sierra Club North Star Chapter, Fresh Energy, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy,

Read The Link: https://mailchi.mp/thealliancetc/thelinkequityai

Image credit: African American Leadership Forum Twin Cities

The AI Equity Policy Agenda for Minnesota from the African American Leadership Forum was developed to "protect Black Minnesotans from algorithmic harm, and position Black communities and institutions as architects of equitable AI governance." The North Star Data Center policy toolkit is "geared ...

05/06/2026

Along with partners at the Greater Minnesota Partnership, Unidos MN, WomenVenture and Coalition of Asian American Leaders - CAAL, MCCD co-authored a commentary in the Star Tribune today, urging the legislature to act and pass urgently needed small-business relief before the end of session. Read the full post at https://bit.ly/4tiKuQk

05/06/2026

05/01/2026

Happy International Workers' Day!

Check out today's issue of The Link, The Alliance’s regional equity and organizing newsletter. In this edition, we highlight news on understanding eviction data, international examples of how to organize renter assemblies to resist displacement, how homeless choirs across the country are using art to advocate for housing justice, and more.

Plus, links to May Day solidarity events, upcoming community workshops, and job listings!

Read the Link: https://mailchi.mp/thealliancetc/the-link-international-workers-day

Artwork by Sue Simensky Bietila, courtesy of JustSeeds Artists Cooperative

04/15/2026

Join the Housing Justice League next Tuesday, April 21st, from 6-8pm to learn more about the Eviction timeline and process.

Minneapolis’ March 2026 eviction filing rates are up 60.3% compared to March 2025.

This event is for mutual aid organizers, rapid response networks, impacted community leaders, educators, social workers, advocates, and tenant leaders to:

🔍Bring more clarity to understanding the eviction process and timelines

💪🏾 Raise awareness of the agency tenants have to intervene in the process

⚖️ Give emergent organizing networks and leaders the legal information to create strategies for eviction response and broad information sharing

We aim to give a legal overview of the eviction process, share resources for eviction defense, and arm advocates with the knowledge needed to keep neighbors housed and combat mass displacement.

Register to receive more info, including event location: https://actionnetwork.org/events/community-eviction-response

03/26/2026

Members of the Brooklyn Center council brought a proposal: remove two of its tenant protection ordinances. The issue is tabled for now.

03/24/2026

03/11/2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Mayor Frey Abandons Tenants: Renters, businesses, and advocates urge City Council to overturn veto and protect residents from eviction with temporary ordinance

March 11, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS — Today, Mayor Frey abandoned tenants, small business owners, and community advocates by vetoing a measure designed to stabilize economic turmoil across the city through a temporary eviction pause ordinance. The Pause Evictions, Save Lives ordinance would have temporarily extended eviction pre-filing notice by 30 days, giving renters critical time to access rental assistance and other resources they need to stabilize their households, in the face of significant economic disruption.

“We are deeply disappointed today to see Mayor Frey allow our neighbors, community members, and the city to suffer,” said Jess Zarik, Co-Executive Director at HOME Line. “While our immigrant neighbors are experiencing the sharpest harm, the ripple effects of this crisis are reaching far beyond any one group. People are skipping work. Parents are keeping children home from school. The economic shock of this crisis will not stay contained unless we take action. Instead, it will ripple outward to workers, tenants, landlords, and entire neighborhoods.”

“As Mayor Frey signs this veto, families' lives continue to be destroyed through disruptive and unnecessary evictions,” said Juan Luis Rivera-Reyes, Coalition Organizer at The Alliance and co-facilitator of the Housing Justice League. “Residents have lost millions in wages, business owners have lost millions in potential revenue, employees aren’t being paid, yet rent was due last Sunday. Now, Mayor Frey has denied communities the time for critical rental assistance to reach the people who need it.”

“The human toll of this is immense. Research has shown that the education deficits that a child faces from eviction can follow them for their life; eviction causes health effects,” said David Suitor, a housing attorney in Minneapolis. “A study from Rice University in Texas showed that evictions cost not only the tenant and the landlord, they cost the public and private sector thousands of dollars.” The Pause Evictions, Save Lives ordinance would not have decreased or cancelled rents; it would have given tenants a better chance of being able to pay.

The Housing Justice League urges the City Council to vote to override Mayor Frey’s veto and ensure our community can recover from this disruption. Rent assistance is a proven strategy to address eviction and its social and economic harms, but the assistance available does not go far enough and will not move fast enough to prevent the devastating wave of evictions we are facing. . .

The Housing Justice League is a group of community organizations advocating for policy change and building grassroots support for housing justice in Minneapolis. Learn more at https://thealliancetc.org/pause-evictions-save-lives

03/11/2026

"We need to develop a collective vision for the next 20 to 30 years. It has to include diverse truths, different strategies, and shared goals. Everyone doesn’t have to be an entrepreneur, but everyone has a role to play," says Kenya McKnight Ahad (pictured), President and founder of the Black Women's Wealth Alliance, a member of The Alliance's Business Resource Collective

Check out today's edition of The Link, The Alliance’s regional equity and organizing newsletter.

In this issue, we recognize Women's History Month with news and resources on the Black Women's Wealth Alliance, data on the Status of Women and Girls in Minnesota, the success of a new Minnesota mall built by Black immigrant women, perspectives on understanding gender justice in urban planning, and more.

Read The Link: https://mailchi.mp/thealliancetc/march112026