Carol Becker wrote:
> 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.
What Carol says is true, but the underlying issue is that there would be money
for affordable housing, not only for the very poor, but for the
almost-as-poor-but-struggling-mightily if the powers that be didn't feel it was
necessary to subsidize projects like the Nicollet Mall Target store with such,
shall we say, distasteful largess.
> 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.
This is the heart of the issue, isn't it. Via the Holman Decree (was it
consent?), a whole grup of people put the government on notice that they did not
choose to cluster. And it's also true that the City of Minneapolis cannot
survive if huge numbers of the poor and blue and pink color working people are
all clustered inside the city limits. Further, business and industry now nestled
in the burbs need workers to do blue and pink collar work. Hence, Ted Mondale
puts the Metropolitan Council members on notice that the burbs will feel the
squeeze if they don't start investing in more affordable housing for
workers.What I find interesting is that some of the same people who signed the
suit which created the Holman are now over in my neck of the woods demanding
that we build affordable housing in a gated complex for people making less than
half the poverty line. Curious, doncha think?
Wizard Marks, Central
>
>
> 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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