An official website of the REGIONAL GOAL: Equitable and inclusive region
This regional goal states:
Our region is equitable and inclusive. Racial inequities and injustices experienced by historically marginalized communities have been eliminated; and all people feel welcome, included, and empowered.
About this goal
The Met Council has developed a series of Frameworks to guide the regional and local planning processes, the work of the Council, decision-making across the region, and implementation of priorities established in Imagine 2050. Each Framework addresses a key issue which in itself can affect change, and taken together can significantly alter the lives of the most vulnerable populations in this region. The Met Council will use these Frameworks in projects, policy, processes, and procedures to convey a singular message to Met Council partners in how this organization leads and conducts our business.
Our transition to a Framework model to advance regional equity builds on insights gained after Met Council named equity as a regional outcome in the previous regional development guide. Though Thrive MSP 2040 established the Council’s commitment to advancing equity, it structured the discussion around containing an expansion of concentrated poverty in the region. This proved to be a limited and limiting approach that further harmed marginalized neighborhoods.1 The Council has continued to work with partners in the region to evolve both our approaches to advancing equity across the region as well as to how we structure our analyses and evaluations.
The frameworks include:
1 Metropolitan Council (2021). Progress on Equity Commitments in Thrive MSP 2040. https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Committee-of-the-Whole/2022/04-20-2022/Info-Item-Progress-on-Thrive-Equity-Commitments-Re.aspx
