(WM) I've never much cared for HUDs notion that as soon as a family earns
enough they have to leave. That makes it very tough for public housing to become a neighborhood because people aren't allowed to stay once they earn more than a certain amount. I think it's very defeating to the formation and maintenance of community.(VF)Long term public housing especially if not needed, is taken up spots to obtain the same chance as others had , a head start. I for one was never proud of the fact that I had to live in public housing, so I set my goals and dreams on owning a home. I looked at welfare and housing as a stepping stone to reach my dreams and goals, and the best thing I got out the programs, was a letter telling me, I am now making to much money. I made it! Secondly, with the way things are now in public housing or section 8, you can move anytime and anywhere, any city or any state. So you still would not have much neighborhood participation. "hmm Let's see, Zero below Mn, or Sunny Fl." or Ga....
(WM)
I've never much cared for HUDs notion that as soon as a family earns
enough they have to leave. That makes it very tough for public housing to become a neighborhood because people aren't allowed to stay once they earn more than a certain amount. I think it's very defeating to the formation and maintenance of community.(VF) I am into to upward mobility not into regression, otherwise we would be faced with a lot more people homeless and not being able to obtain housing. I do believe that HUD can do more. Hud and mortgage companies like North side and Southside housing can team up with each other, to educate resident's on opportunities to own their own home, help them qualify to loans or even help with down payment assistance.
I believe in teachable moments, "Each one Teach one." We have to stop coming up with excuses to regression and come up with solutions for mobilities, upward. May I suggest good reading "Who Moved My Cheese." a book about changes and how we deal with those changes head on.
"In order to achieve things in life we have to make and face difficult problems dead on to find solutions dead on."
Vanessa Freeman
Hawthorne
From: WizardMarks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "V.L. Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mpls] Section 8 and Boarded Up Houses.... Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:24:51 -0600V.L. Freeman wrote:Oh those boarded houses are just a pain in the you know what. I wish that the city would think outside of the box for a change.WM: In a story last week in the Strib, Steve Brandt quoted MCDA's Earl Pettiford, I think, as saying that city-owned vacant/boardeds are almost all dealt with. Those remaining are in private hands. Some of those are also in probate court because the owner died intestate and it takes a long period of time for property to go through probate. The court has to find heirs to the person who died, etc. Then, if the heirs don't live here, they have a tricky time selling the property from wherever they are.
Last but not least, I think Minneapolis needs to look into Public Housing. The number would just surprise to you know that there have been some on public housing assistance for 10-15 years. As long as they are not being asked to leave, they will not be serious as to finding permanent housing or non assistance housing. I think this is one reason why the homeless population is so great, a back log in our public housing..WM: Public Housing is for those people who do not make enough money to afford to live in other types of housing. So long as the family makes less than that amount, they can live in public housing. For many that will not change since their earning power is so small. For others, the arrival of new babies changes the amount they can earn and still live in public housing. The drawback, which I watched on my block about a decade ago, was that if a family loses a child--child dies, for example, they will get moved out of their public housing because they no longer qualify for the size of house they had before the child died. That's a terribly wrenching thing to happen to a grieving family.
I've never much cared for HUDs notion that as soon as a family earns enough they have to leave. That makes it very tough for public housing to become a neighborhood because people aren't allowed to stay once they earn more than a certain amount. I think it's very defeating to the formation and maintenance of community.
WizardMarks, Central
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