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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The City of New Hope strives to be a great place to live, work and play for all people. We pledge to treat everyone equitably, respectfully and without bias regardless of their age, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, income, disability or other differences.

Equity Statement

The City of New Hope strives to be a great place to live, work and play for all people. We pledge to treat everyone equitably, respectfully and without bias regardless of their age, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, income, disability or other differences. The City acknowledges inequities exist in our community based upon these or other differences. To succeed in New Hope’s mission and vision and to accomplish our goals, we commit to ensuring outcomes are not dependent on the above differences.

We commit to the following to ensure equity in our community:

  • We welcome and value people of all characteristics, backgrounds and experiences.
  • To work toward having a workforce that reflects our community and our commitment to diversity.
  • Creating a community where all members are connected to each other with a sense of shared purpose in achieving the city's mission, vision and values.
  • To evaluate decisions with equity in mind.

COMMITMENTS
The City of New Hope commits to the long-term work of becoming culturally competent, welcoming and inclusive of all people both within and outside our organization in the issues and challenges we engage in. This includes (but is not limited to):

  • Supporting, engaging, serving and including people with different racial, ethnic, economic, age and religious backgrounds as well as those with varying physical abilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.
  • Entering intercultural relationships with humility; prepared to listen, learn and follow others' lead in taking actionable steps to adapt our methods and practices for mutual benefit.
  • Incorporating this equity statement into policies, practices and procedures at an organizational level.
  • Ensuring City services are accessible and welcoming to all community members.
  • Reaching beyond our traditional constituencies and familiar stakeholders to seek input from a wide range of voices and backgrounds.
  • Recruiting, hiring, retaining and developing a culturally competent staff whose demographics more closely reflect the community.
  • Recruiting, retaining and developing culturally competent commission members whose demographics more closely reflect the community.
  • Investing the required resources to ensure the successful execution and maintaining of the plan. Resources include, but are not limited to, funding, personnel, time, education and training.
  • Forming a working group of employees whose goal is to increase diversity in the organization, implement the above commitments and ensure the City is a welcoming, attractive and inclusive environment for all.

Fair Housing Policy

The City of New Hope adopted a Fair Housing Policy on Feb. 28, 2022, with the goal of ensuring that fair and equal housing opportunities are available to all persons in all housing initiatives and development activities funded by the city regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, status regarding public assistance, creed, familial status, national origin, or disability. This is achieved through external practices that provide access to fair housing information and referral services and through internal practices and procedures that promote fair housing inclusion.

FAIR HOUSING RESOURCES

Human Rights Commission

The New Hope Human Rights Commission (HRC) works in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights to secure equal opportunity in housing, employment, public accommodations, public service and education, and works consistently to improve the human relations climate of the city.

The commission advises the City Council on human rights laws, issues, policies, and programs. At the direction of the City Council, the group develops formal and informal educational opportunities to highlight the federal and state Human Rights Acts and the Americans with Disabilities Act to ensure all citizens have full and equal participation in the affairs of the community. The commission also provides leadership and acts cooperatively with agencies, organizations and other human rights commissions to recognize and prevent discrimination and inequalities in the daily life of the city.


Just Deeds

In January of 2021, the New Hope City Council passed a resolution disavowing and condemning the past use of discriminatory covenants and prohibiting discriminatory covenants from being used in the future. While there are no known discriminatory covenants recorded for properties in New Hope, the city supports the efforts of neighboring cities to remove such covenants from property titles and it supports the efforts of the Just Deeds Coalition to educate the community about this and other historically discriminatory practices.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Mapping Prejudice:
Mapping Prejudice, developed by the University of Minnesota, provides users the opportunity to allows visualize the reach and use of racial covenants within Hennepin County.

 

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