David Brauer:� The southwest Minneapolis project has been seen as a way to increase affordable housing in a less-affordable part of the city, but a city council committee decided a subsidy was too rich on a 3-2 vote. The developer said the subsidy - $542,000 for 15 subsidized units - was in the middle range of city proposals. �
Any special virtue in locating affordable housing in less-affordable areas? Seems to me that it might reduce property tax collections. Don�t we have deteriorated locations that are paying little or no tax that could be replaced with something that could pay a LITTLE tax? Between the River Road and 46th Avenue, there is housing development that is replacing an abandoned gas station and a very old revival house. This is my idea of a good redevelopment. Susan Maricle: �I plan on writing in Gregory Gray's name on the ballot come November. Anyone else? � I won�t vote for a candidate because of skin color. I�d have to hear that he�s a better candidate than what�s available. �Given that racial categories are fuzzy at best, it might be possible to define a racial category of Scandinavian; Scandinavians do, supposedly have distinct physical characteristics from people say in Asia or Italy for that matter. Choosing to vote for someone because their ancestors come from a distinct geographical area would be a racist act from my perspective. Michael Atherton Prospect Park � I consider it an extremely INTELLIGENT act. And I base that on the fact that our state, when ruled by Scandinavians, lacked some of the �amenities� we now prize like topless nightclubs, lotteries, legal card gambling, etc. Ever since we broadened our toleration, we�ve suffered a slow deterioration. A bunch of non-serious voters gave Jesse Ventura a plurality with what seem to me obvious deleterious results. So I�m not willing to be tolerant anymore. Only Scandinavians have the stiff spine and sang froid to resist all these temptations. Paul Lohmann: �Affordable housing is one of those areas. Yes, government has failed in some previous attempts to deal with this issue, but there has never been any doubt in my mind that thoughtful and committed people are struggling with this tough issue. � Paul, is it POSSIBLE that government played a role in the failure to build affordable housing? Do the various rules that government imposes to build in Minneapolis convince builders to build somewhere else? What is the trend in the construction of affordable housing and how does it correlate with enactment of new ordinances? And what�s the deal with a certain number of �unrelated� tenants living in a building? Is that a way to protect the franchise of multi-unit housing? I mean, would the old-fashioned room-and-board arrangement be illegal now? And what is the over-riding interest of society in keeping unrelated people from sharing a roof? �I ran against Joe last election Brian Monroe still in Phillips looking NE � Can anybody anywhere in the city run for office in some other part of the city? ===== Jim Mork Cooper Neighborhood ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vote Wellstone! One of the few people in Washington who'll stick his neck out for BOTH the stockholders (combatting management fraud) AND the working people. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.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
