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- Bring together stakeholders with different areas of interest and expertise, knowledge <br />bases and constituencies to allow for more effective solutions and more coordinated <br />investments. <br />- Elevate the value that every community in the region should be rich with opportunity. <br />- Prioritize the wisdom of low-income communities of color in the process of shaping <br />vision, developing plans, and allocating resources in their own communities. <br />- Begin a sustained conversation that embeds the objectives of equity into the region's <br />practices and investments extending across multiple jurisdictions and sectors. <br />- Engage partners —from the community, service sectors, and government —in specific <br />geographies over the course of at least the next 15 to 18 months to begin this <br />long-term conversation. <br />• Promote equity through the Council's contracting and procurement practices by <br />participating in the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program (DBE) and the <br />Metropolitan Council Underutilized Business Program (MCUB). Together strive to ensure <br />equitable participation in projects and procurements by underutilized businesses and <br />companies owned by people of color and women. <br />41 MZ Strategies, "Expanding Mixed -Income Housing Opportunities: Key Observations from Stakeholder Interviews" (2013). <br />42 Urban Land Institute, "Making Mixed -Income Housing Work" (2013). Available from http://urbanland.uli.org/ <br />economy-markets-trends/making-mixed-income-housing-work. <br />43 Ibid. <br />44 Bipartisan Policy Center, "Demographic Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Housing Markets" (2012). Retrieved from <br />http://bipartisanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/default/files/BPC%20Housing%20Demography.pdf <br />45 U.S. Census Bureau, 2009-2013 American Community Survey. <br />46 Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, "Housing America's Older Adults: Meeting the Needs of an Aging <br />Population" (2014), p. 32. Retrieved from http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/jchs.harvard.edu/files/jchs-housing_americas_ <br />older_adults_2014.pdf. <br />47 U.S. Census Bureau, 2009-2013 American Community Survey. <br />48 U.S. Census Bureau, 2009-2013 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample. <br />49 Codified at 29 U.S.C. §794. <br />so U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, "Section 504: Frequently Asked Questions". Retrieved from http:// <br />portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/disabil ities/sect504faq. <br />51 U.S. Census Bureau, 2009-2013 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample. <br />52 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2013. Picture of Subsidized Housing data. <br />Ibid. <br />54 Office of the Lieutenant Governor, State of Minnesota, Putting the Promise of Olmstead into Practice: Minnesota's <br />2013 Olmstead Plan (2013), p. 38. Retrieved from http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/olmstead/documents/pub/ <br />dhs16_180147.pdf. <br />55 Wilder Research, Homelessness in Minnesota: Findings From the 2012 Statewide Homeless Study (2013). Retrieved from <br />http://www.wilder.org/Wilder-Research/Publications/HomelessStudyTables2012/StatewideMNadult2012_Tables148-176.pdf <br />53 <br />FOUR: Opportunities for Collaboration <br />