Just to add on to what Gary wrote about the Vickey Heller post: All of the units that she displayed where for studios and 1 bedroom apartments. The landlords would not rent these units to families with children.
I think we have to keep this argument to facts (like Gary is doing in his post) and not a mix of ideology and facts (like Vickey is doing in her post). In my experience the policy issues affordable housing have been: 1. supply 2. production 3. market forces 4. preservation Most of the crossfire and ideological mudslinging comes from people who are *housing providers* (supply) ( I'll even grant *affordable*housing providers) who operate in one portion of the housing market and use the factors and assumptions in their specific area to critique proposals or practices in other portions of the housing market--production. This is a dangerous practice because the market operates differently in the various housing sectors. Financing, zoning, public policy, and regulation operate differently. To assume that they are the same creates confusion and resentment. To restate my position: The housing market is made up of several different segments and to argue that there is no affordable housing crisis because the Sunday paper lists a lot of 1 bedroom and studio apartments for the single individual or couple market misses the point. David Wilson Loring Park _______________________________________ 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
