In a message dated 10/30/01 11:20:38 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< If you are going to deconcentrate poverty and desegregate the neighborhoods, you have to identify the cause. It's not rocket science. Poverty is heavily concentrated in certain neighborhoods as a result of illegal discrimination in the job and housing markets. The solution is simple: enforce fair employment and housing laws. >> Keith Rebuts: Poverty concentration is NOT because of illegal discrimination in the job and housing market. Nor is it toward identifying education failures in the hood to suggest that to "...enforce fair employment and housing laws." will remediate the failures. You buy or rent a starter home, and the neighborhood that comes with it. As your financial outcomes improve, you move up. That is how the free market operates. The main illegality in this town trickles down from the Mayor and City Council policy of fostering and allowing a holding tank for criminality in the City's "starter home neighborhoods" such as Near North and Phillips. The "funnel effect", and downward spiral of, --This is where you go to buy a drug, this is where you go to buy a whore-- multi-plotzes bad life experience in the "hood". We must create equality in all neighborhoods, by demanding clean, safe streets throughout. Dangerous and illegal conduct, not allowed in one neighborhood, should not be allowed in another. Vote Change Nov 6th. to help end discrimination in City policy!! _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
