There is nothing wrong with holding our elected officials to their word and
to what is in print. We have a serious affordable housing crisis in our
city and the current administration and council leadership has spent most of
their time on corporate welfare instead of addressing basic issues such as
higher paying jobs, affordable housing and basic street maintenance just to
name a few. That is not a personal attack, it is illumination of the facts
via citizen advocacy through direct experience or observation. And that
debate is what this forum is all about. Perhaps if our leadership would
start participating in forums such of this on a more regular basis, it might
just make our democracy rise to a higher level; instead of a constant
negative critique of their performance.
Russ Peterson
Ward 9
Standish
R U S S E L L P E T E R S O N D E S I G N
"You can only fly if you stretch your wings."
Russell W. Peterson, RA, CID
Founder
3857 23rd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
612-724-2331
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carol Becker
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 10:36 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Attack on Cherryhomes due to affordable housing position
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
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products.
> http://shopping.yahoo.com/
>
