MICHAH and JONATHON do a "Affordable Housing Crisis" Presentation. I've seen it. They go to a local church basement. Invite the local legislators, community leaders, large and small business owners. They do a quick overhead presentation that is factual and informational. They leave out many things, but, you can't cover everything when your looking for room at the trough.
At certain points the facilitator takes comments from local leaders and the business community. Here's what frosts me. The local business people connect the dots like this. Owner can't hire help because there is nothing close by where a prospective employee can afford to live. Thus the his business and the local economy suffers because of lack of affordable housing. Then business owner agrees to support any plan where the taxpayer can help subsidize housing for his employees. Honest to goodness folks. Why the housing activist social economic justice types let this slide is beyond me. Why not ask Mr. or Ms. business person to pay their prospective employees more. Why are we letting the business people get away with bypassing this is surreal. The business person is trying to offload a portion of what would be their expense onto the taxpayer under the guise of "affordable housing". Mpls Content. If the local publications are paying so little to the working press, is it no wonder that affordable housing coverage is considered so biased by the local affordable housing providers? I would venture to say that single working members of the press covering these issues have a close, intimate, personal knowledge of these issues. Maybe too close. Craig Miller Former Fultonite [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Mpls] Average Non-Profit Salary in Minneapolis > I'd like to get some insights to this too... > > Liz Greenbaum > Longfellow > > > "W. Brandon Lacy Campos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Question, > > > >Does anyone have figures on the average non-profit starting salary in > >Minneapolis? I know in the spring of 2000 it was 25,000 dollars. That was > >what I started at when I was working for MAP. And it was hard to survive on > >that salary then, and I imagine it would be even tougher now. > > > >-Brandon > >Powderhorn Park > >Still Ward 9... > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ > > _______________________________________ > 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
