I overheard one person who thought that the Hollman Near North redevelopment hurt Jackie Cherryhomes. Jackie was probably the most public and most well known cheerleading politician for this project. Hollman may or may not have indeed hurt her, I do not have a good reading on the percentages of voters who supported vs opposed the project. In light of Dean Carlson's information that the previous residents were in fact not hurt with displacement, I have been wondering why so many people oppose the development. By the way, is Dean Carlson the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority project manager for the Hollman Near North project? If so, then he should have the wherewithal to obtain sound information on this topic.
Dean was quite articulate in expressing the reasons why the NAACP and the Legal Aid Society filed the Hollman lawsuit in the first place. These organizations brought this legal action forward for the purpose of giving these poor public housing recipients a better life. They did not think it was proper for the government to force people to live in a type of concentration camp that was racially and economically segregated and isolated from the rest of society. This lawsuit was for the purpose of improving the lives of poor people. If Jackie was hurt by Hollman, then it may be because there was, in the minds of many, a perception that the emphasis had changed from 'helping the poor' to 'doing the redevelopment deal'. Dave Stack Harrison _______________________________________ 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
