Seven of her friends or members of her family, including the father of her first child, have died from gun violence in North Minneapolis. She has struggled to get work, in part because she could not find child care for her two daughters, she said. And for the past three years she has bounced between the homes of friends and family because she could not find affordable housing.

Since the summer, Ms. Moorehead, 24, estimates, she and a friend have applied for 50 apartments. Most of the better units have been outside North Minneapolis, but the landlords have asked that they earn two or three times the annual rent, far more than they can cover with money from public assistance and her job at a beauty supply shop. All of the approximately 10 units they have viewed in North Minneapolis were run down, she said.

Ms. Moorehead caught a break in November when she was approved for a Section 8 subsidized housing voucher after years of waiting. She must live in neighboring St. Paul for a year with the voucher, she said, after which she can move anywhere. She has not decided whether to return to the north side, where she works.

“I love North Minneapolis,” she said. “Sometimes it just be too much.”

Generations ago, Plymouth Avenue, one of the main north side corridors, was lined with Jewish-owned businesses. But two nights of rioting broke out in July 1967 after a confrontation involving the police; community leaders at the time said the unrest was a cathartic exhale from a long oppressed community. And things were inflamed even more when a white bar owner shot a black man.

The unrest, which drew hundreds of National Guard troops to the city, left dozens of businesses along Plymouth and other north side streets burned, and it hastened white flight to the suburbs.

Today, residents of the north side lament that many of the problems from five decades ago remain.

After bearing a wave of foreclosures on subprime loans with high interest rates, the Near North neighborhood, closer to downtown, has seen lending dry up. More than 55 percent of mortgage applications in the neighborhood from 2009 to 2012 did not result in loans, the highest rejection rate in the region, according to a 2014 report by the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Yet downtown has many well-developed blocks, with packed bars and restaurants, and glittering office and residential towers with floor-to-ceiling windows.