> This is from a member who recently unsubscribed...her reasons are very
> pertinent to list discussions. This is forwarded with her permission. -
> David Brauer, list manager
> I can't go through with my plans to move to Mpls, due to lack of
> affordable housing there. I'm an RN with a 45 year work history, and
> I've raised two children on my own. I had no reason to think I'd ever
> be living on a fixed income, until disabilty became a unwelcome reality.
> Guess what? This can happen to anyone. Doesn't take long to run through
> ones savings, unless there's a LOT of them. :)
CM City/urban living is always much more expensive. "Affordable housing"
needs to be defined. We have too many people who define a crisis by saying
I can't afford to live where I want to. Therefore someone pick up the tab.
The vacancy rate went from 2.2 to 4.0 to 4.8 in under six months. And it
will go higher.
There are for rent signs everywhere in the city. The amount of column
inches devoted to "for rent" adds are exploding. The shortage is over. The
facts bear it out.
>
> There are few options for living in Mpls for someone in this position.
> The current average rent on a one bedroom apartment would take the
> majority of my monthly income. Not sure how anyone on a fixed income
> is supposed to accumulate the sizeable deposits most require.
> Subsidized or public housing waiting lists have grown impossibly long:
> the process is incredibly cumbersome and invasive, even if one is
> willing to live in the neighborhoods and conditions available.
CM The above sentence answers part of the myth. "I don't want to live
where I can afford. I want to live over there." Even though I can't afford
it.
Craig wants to live on Lake Minnetonka, Lake Harriet or that one big house
on the South side of Calhoun that's for sale right now. I guess housing is
just not affordable.
>
> So basically, there is no room in the (Mpls) "inn" for people in my
> position that I can discover. There are some possibilities for living
> in housing designated for the elderly and disabled, similar to what I'm
> living in now. (altho those also have very long waiting lists)
CM BTW I've done some poking around. Rent in the Chicago area is cheaper
then in Mpls. Our policies have screwed up the market so bad, that even a
metro 5 times our size has cheaper rent.
Average rent in the Chicago region is $723
ave 1br $746
ave 2br $746
ave 3br or more $824
www.metroplanning.org/resources/106section4.asp?objectid=106
Hope link works. If not go to www.metroplanning.org and start surfing.
Craig Miller
Former Fultonite
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