Check out tomorrow's Public Safety and Regulatory Services Agenda. http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/2003-meetings/20030404/PSRS20030326a genda.asp
City staff has teamed up with 504 to fund the further destruction of affordable rental housing. This time the bogeyman is lead. Is there lead in rental housing? Yes Is there lead in 90% of all the housing in the city, including single family homes? Yes Is charging $3.00 per unit per year to fund "big lead" hunters going to make more affordable housing available? No Are big lead hunters going to find "big lead" ? Yes Are rental properties going to be targeted? Yes Are rental properties going to go vacant and eventually be destroyed? Yes Has Project 504 discovered another way to fund the destruction of rental property owners or the taking over of their property??? Are there going to be programs available to protect the life savings of a single elderly women who has relied on the rent from her duplex for the last twenty years? No, don't let anybody fool you. The landlord will pay for this or they will stop renting. Or worse yet, the unit will go unoccupied, and you know what happens then. Soon the landlord (suburban or your neighbor) loses the property. Call your city council member, especially if it's Niziolek, Samuels, Colvin Roy, Johnson Ostrow Zerby Tell them to vote no tomorrow unless the city has a program to pay for all the work orders that are going to be drawn up. This is going to devalue each and every piece of rental housing in the city by a large chunk. It will also drive up insurance rates on all housing in the city. The means for proving that the owner of the property ( this includes former homeowners) had prior knowledge of lead just got lower. The grounds for lawsuit just got lower. Mpls property owners already pay extra premium for various sins of city policy. Now we'll just have to pay more. Craig Miller Former Mpls Landlord living in Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
