[Mpls] housing

[m1r3201]

In my opinion, the right to housing for everyone should be a right protected by Federal Law.
I noticed in reading about the 35 W access project that the law of Imminent Domain might be applied: I noticed that it was mentioned that housing would be torn down to make way for that project. I am guessing that is imminent domain. (Please do not enter into a debate about my understanding of Imminent Domain and its legal intricacies)
       So, perhaps it is time for imminent domain or some law, to be used for housing for everybody. No more law suits or issues about neighborhood empowerment...just enforcement of the premise that everyone deserves housing---appropriate housing.
       People have commented on this list about "derelicts", that homelessness is due to people having Chemical Dependency or Mental Health problems.
       The last I checked (this morning) homelessness is due to poverty, a lack of housing available for the poorest of the poor and a lack of providing housing that is supportive to those who have needs that require such support.
       I have much more of a problem with the concentration of wealthy folks into neighborhoods than I do with the prevailing argument about concentration of "the poor".
       Since when does being poor indicate all these negative stereotypes I keep reading about on the list?
          
             Yes, I think Lydia House is a great idea, I thought so when that building first went vacant. Yes, I am a housing advocate.
             Yes, I live in Kingfield. Yes, I would like to see Kingfield have the same concentration as Whittier for low income and supportive housing. Yes, I think this could happen if we had laws that made us do this.
             Margaret Hastings
             Kingfield