In a message dated 6/2/02 12:10:22 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
(Keith Reitman adds all/only parenthesized (words) comments Below)
<< I would have to say Minneapolis has more Art (free market housing-KR),
however
defined, then any of these places. Why do we feel the need to drag a
public bureaucracy into this? Who needs the state to sanction art (housing)?
Does our
low level of Official Support (for small business people called landlord-KR)
and our very high level of actual art (In this case, heavily subsidized
housing developments-KR) not have a possible connection? Why risk
demolishing a creative, untamed spirit like
that needed to create art (free market housing-KR) by saddling it with the
dead hand of politics?
Mark Greenwald, The Wedge
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Keith says; There is no way to "build affordable housing", new construction
is very expensive. New housing should be built by the private sector and
offered at market rates to those who will commit to paying for it. When
people move up to their new homes, the housing they leave behind shall be
move-up housing for the next strata of folks, and so on. The last regime was
ferociously tearing down affordable used housing, both public and private, at
a furious rate. They loved building Target Towers and Choo-Choo trains and
Block E's with TIF money and Bond Selling (a small second mortgage on all our
homes). This is what the DFL Leadership did, and with barely a whimper from
any of you reading this post. "Proud of the DFL'..."DFL Guard"? Let us
convene a Truth Commission to examine what Jackie and Sharon, Joe and Joan
did: "Economic Cleansing" like ethnic cleansing should be a crime and is a
sin. If no punishment, let us at least research the facts. How did these
leaders, and the willing executioners of their egregious policy (such as
former MCDA Bosses), manage to destroy our old housing stock and punish poor
families and children? As they violated property rights; they also violated
human rights. I heard Jackie was 'busy' at the DFL State Convention: I would
like to explain to her, off-list, the meaning of "Crimes against Humanity".
And, of course, after the City's dirty work is done and private property
owners and homeless people are pushed to the curb, one Socialist and then
another will holler for ''rent control".
Keith Reitman NearNorth
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