To quote Woodstock (from Peanuts) "Every time someone comes up with a good
idea, someone else brings up the budget."
The Niland affordable housing proposal would have cost as much as the City
currently spends for the Fire Department, an amount of money it simply
doesn't have. It was much more responsible to put together a program which
is financially reasonable than to approve a program which was completely out
of the City's ability to fund.
It also would have made the issue of affordable housing a problem of the
City of Minneapolis, rather than a problem of the whole region. Affordable
housing has to be a regional issue with regional solutions and Minneapolis
needs to respond but only as part of a much larger response.
Carol Becker
Longfellow
PS - These personal attacks do not have a place in this forum.
----- Original Message -----
From: timothy connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 7:58 AM
Subject: cherryhomes announcement
> what gives? i thought i could look forward to comments
> about the city council president's candidacy for a
> fourth term. shocked, i'm shocked!
>
> my favorite part of the strib's story was the line " a
> big part of her personal decision was the North Side
> housing development and her work on afffordable
> housing." happily i had only imbibed juice and coffee
> and no solid food when i read that.
>
> what work on affordable housing was that to which she
> was referring?
>
> was that leading the council in a 7-5 vote against
> councilman jim niland's affordable housing resolution
> which came directly out of the work done by and
> recommendations from the mayor's task force on ah?
>
> or was it her leadership in passing a watered down
> affordable housing resolution that has resulted in
> only a 3% increase in housing for those most in need,
> those whose family income is less than 30% of MMI
> (median metropolitan income) and a 79% increase in
> housing for those at 80% (MMI)?
>
> i would have thought ms cherryhomes would have pointed
> to her work on making "the block formerly known as
> block e" a showcase of inner city redevelopment in
> which we all may take great pride.
>
> enough. my nausea has passed. momentarily.
>
> tim connolly
> ward 7
>
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