06/15/2026
The City of Minneapolis released an updated impact assessment documenting nearly $700 million in estimated costs and increased needs caused by occupation of Minneapolis by the federal government.
The assessment covers impacts from December 2025 through April 2026 and shows widespread harm to residents, workers, businesses, students, neighborhoods and City operations.
Some of these highlights include $444,880,820 lost in business revenue, $152,750,000 lost in worker wages, $26,137,200 estimated monthly grocery cost needs for newly food-insecure households, and at least $62,800,000 in rental assistance needs from December 2025-April 2026.
I’m committed to using this Impact Assessment to help guid investment in relief and assistance for residents and businesses impacted by the occupation.
I’m proud to have to worked with my colleagues on the City Council to have invested millions of dollars to help Minneapolis residents, including:
* $7 million in the Small Business Resiliency Fund which supports direct financial relief and activation and marketing support to stabilize small businesses and drive customers back to commercial corridors.
* $3.8 million in emergency rental assistance, with an additional $3 million donated by the Wilson Foundation.
* $1 million in immigrant legal assistance.
In addition to policy work meant to protect our immigrant neighbors:
* Strengthening the city’s Separation ordinance, which says that city resources and personnel, including city-contracted vendors, cannot be used for immigration enforcement. This includes prohibitions on the use of city resources to set up a perimeter or control public areas to enforce federal immigration laws.
* Protecting renters with the Tenant Immigration Status Privacy and Anti-Retaliation ordinance.
* Law enforcement agency agreements accountability ordinance which prohibits the City from entering into a law enforcement joint powers agreement (JPA) unless the other agency’s officers are prohibited from concealing their identity while performing their activities under that agreement.
It’s also important to understand that this is still not enough. This report clearly shows that our neighbors are still struggling. These numbers are also an undercount which means there are even greater implications.
