In a message dated 11/13/01 3:27:14 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< MPHA has promised to find replacement dollars for this program, which funds Project Lookout (public housing resident crime watch volunteers), security guards, and the housing police team. For futher background, see http://members.tripod.com/markusfredric. The Republican administration feels that eviction is a cheaper solution. Eviction can result from an allegation of drug-related activity, even at one remove (tenant's guest), even without tenant's knowledge, and independent of arrest and or conviction. Nifty way to vanish somebody you don't like. Fred Markus Horn Terrace Ward Ten _______________________________________ Minneapolis I >> Keith says, HUD rules allow the eviction of renters from MPHA subsidized housing for alleged lease and law violations that are "...even at one remove (tenant's guest), even without tenants knowledge, and independent of arrest and conviction." The City of Mpls. Landlord Licensing provisions go even farther against property owners. Mpls ordinance should not hold the owner responsible for alleged behaviors, as described above, by tenants, tenant's guests, or anyone who happens to wander onto the porch, yard or gangway or even the public sidewalk or street in front of the property. Keep in mind, property owner punishment can occur even if these second, third, and fourth parties alleged criminal behaviors fail to cause arrest, charge or conviction of that tenant, tenant guest or itinerant stranger. "At the end of the day" this type of law may quickens the loss of free market investment in the inner city, and the loss and deterioration of affordable housing. If Greg Luce or Acorn asked me, "How can we get rid of those pesky, bottom feeding, landlords?" I would answer, "Create an environment in our inner city that welcomes and rewards investment, rather then blaming and shaming, and sanctioning small business people called property owner." As new investors rush in, the bottom-feeders are outbid and move on. Further, do not hold one person (property owner) responsible for the criminality or bad behavior of another person. " The vast middle level of rental property owners, those that live in a duplex or triplex or own 2-3-4 or more units, have historically served the neighborhoods', and their tenants', needs the best. By stigmatizing and confounding this type of small business activity, we end up pushing the property ownership into the hands of much larger and less personal hands, or into the hands of some less savory owners. We also end up pushing to many properties down and into the landfill! Keith Reitman, not the best or the worst "landlord", Near North _______________________________________ 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
