Terrell Brown wrote: >> [TB] It wasn�t that long ago that Minneapolis had a large amount of public, > affordable, subsidized housing located where people could live �near their > friends�. The NAACP and a list of others sued the City and another list of > others demanding that these residents be dispersed. <<<<<snip>>>> Let me take a stab at a possible scenrio which could support the NAACP's decision to sue. The Glenwood/Olson projects were an army barracks design with interiors reconfigured to allow 8 to 10 units of housing. They had been built of not the best materials and had been largely abused and had not all responded well to repairs. People who lived there said they felt stigmatized, thought it was systemic, and sued for relief. They sought to be dispersed, largely within the city, I would guess. I cannot say how mny people lived in those project houses, but among them, apparently a fair number wanted change. The young women Victoria cited may not have been the same young women, of course, but were they, and if they were also working under the assumption that disbursed meant out of those projects but not so far away that they could not spend time with their friends. Still in the city where there are lots of buses going everywhere 24-7. > Terrell: > If you don�t want to be dispersed, why file the lawsuit? Why not object during the >legal process?
WM: Does that mean that we, Minnepolis, could work a deal with HUD so that all our Section 8 Certificates were good in Texas, Alabama, Maine, Deleware, Nevada? Terrell: > Then they�re many of us who might live somewhere else if we had the money to do it. As a person wandering the country looking for a place to decide to live, I tried New York City (yikes! too much of almost everything, not enough trees), rural existence (disaster, don't have the skills), small town (equal disaster, need more stimulous--bigger library, more theaters, more funk), wealthy suburb. I was most uncomfortable in wealthy suburb, it was de riguer to have wheels of one's own, impossible without wheels. And, it was one long haul to work and back every day. > > Wizard is correct in that the policy if the soon to be former administration > has eliminated a large amount of housing in the city. Also way to many lots > owned by the City, MCDA, Henn County on which homes should be allowed to be > built. WM: This is changing in South Minneapolis where new housing starts are infilling vacant lots right and left. > WizardMarks, Central > > _______________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________ 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
