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Minneapolis' Bold Plan To Tackle Racial Inequity And Climate Change : Short Wave Racial discrimination shaped the map of Minneapolis. Then city zoning locked many of those patterns into place. Maddie talks with NPR climate reporter Lauren Sommer about Minneapolis' bold plan to tackle housing disparities — and climate change. The new rules went into effect earlier this year. Community groups are calling on the city to follow through.

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Minneapolis' Bold Plan To Tackle Racial Inequity And Climate Change

Minneapolis' Bold Plan To Tackle Racial Inequity And Climate Change

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Racial discrimination shaped the map of Minneapolis. Then city zoning locked many of those patterns into place. Maddie Sofia talks with NPR climate reporter Lauren Sommer about Minneapolis' bold plan to tackle housing disparities — and climate change. The new rules went into effect this year. Community groups are calling on the city to follow through.

Read more of Lauren's reporting on this story here.

Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

This episode was produced by Rebecca Ramirez, edited by Viet Le and fact-checked by Emily Kwong.