All,
While I usually find Barb's post informatative and well thought out. . . .I
think the most recent listing of Section 8 housing and jumping to
conclusions about "catching-up with the rest of us" is rather misleading.
I live on 31st and Pleasant. In the Lyndale Neighborhood, in Ward 10.
Next door is Findly Place Town Homes with more than 80 units of subsidize
housing. Across the street is MPHA's Horn Terrace complex with 536 units.
The house next door to me accross the alley is owned by a landlord that
intentionally leaves the rent well below market -- ("because he can")
And fortuently my 800 square feet is affordable as well. . . . thought I am
probably a "problem tenant" (of myself)
While I don't disagree with the end conclusion that increased support for
section 8, section 8 enforcement, and MPHA scattered site (Lyndale
Neighborhood Development Coorproation made their interest in selling several
of the units of its upcomming 31st and/or Nicollet development projects to
MPHA) the operating assumption that section 8 could be or should be equally
distributed throught the city seems to be a hasty conclusion based on one
slice of data.
I would proposed it is an assumption nor conclusion that helps the debate
about affordable housing or the search to find consensus about real
solutions.
Sincerely,
Joseph Barisonzi
Lyndale, Ward 10
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