Jessica Focht-Perlberg was selected from four candidates for the position in Southeast Como and has left her mark on several communities in multiple states.
Past difficulties with Prospect Park landlords has motivated the neighborhood association to create a tenants’ rights curriculum aimed at students and renters.
The Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association, alongside the Minneapolis Police Department, hosted two crime walks in the area last week to alert the community about a man who has been filming confrontations with people in the neighborhood and leaving flyers on cars with racist rhetoric.
University neighborhoods are reporting at some of the lowest rates in Minneapolis, and experts fear that the updated deadline will exclude student populations.