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A`' : ° - 240 <br />Thrive gas <br />The Metropolitan Council is committed to <br />strengthening opportunity and equity. <br />The Council is shaping a new 30 -year regional plan called Thrive MSP 2040. <br />Among its key outcomes is to advance equity in the Council's regional <br />policies, operations, and collaborations with other organizations. <br />To promote greater access to opportunity, the Council makes these <br />commitments: <br />• To serve as a catalyst and a partner <br />in revitalizing neighborhoods in <br />concentrations of poverty and in racially <br />concentrated areas of poverty. <br />• To advance more economically and <br />racially balanced neighborhoods. <br />• To promote expanded housing choices <br />for people of all economic means by: <br />0 <br />- preserving existing affordable housing <br />across the region <br />- encouraging new affordable housing, <br />especially in areas well connected to <br />jobs and transit <br />- investing in affordable -housing <br />construction and preservation in <br />higher -income areas of the region <br />- providing competitive rent limits to <br />expand residential choices for holders <br />of Housing Choice Vouchers <br />- supporting research into Fair Housing <br />issues, discriminatory lending <br />practices, and real estate steering to <br />determine how housing practices may <br />be limiting housing choices <br />• To strengthen transportation <br />connections between lower-income <br />areas and job opportunities in <br />transportation investments - <br />including transitways, strategic <br />highway capacity improvements, <br />and bicycle/pedestrian facilities. <br />The challenge requires partnerships, <br />collaboration, and cooperative efforts <br />as broad and deep as the problems <br />themselves. The Council looks forward <br />to working with many organizations on <br />many fronts to help secure the future <br />of the metropolitan area. <br />METROPOLITAN <br />COUNCIL <br />390 Robert Street North <br />Saint Paul, MN 551 01-1 805 <br />651.602.1000 <br />TTY 651.291.0904 <br />public.info@metc.state.mn.us <br />metrocouncil.org <br />80% post consumer fiber <br />