NRP excludes people of color, renters By: Pauline Thomas Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Originally posted 1/8/2003
Will the City of Minneapolis continue to legitimize a 12-year-old process that excludes minorities and tenants of color from the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP)? The Minneapolis Community Development Agency (MCDA) provides funding and programs for decent affordable housing, business growth to provide jobs to Minneapolis citizens, neighborhood stabilization and revitalization, removal of blighted properties, and a livable downtown and riverfront. In addition, the MCDA funds the city�s Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP), using tax increment financing (TIF), and provides citizen participation funding to neighborhood groups. Although the NRP program was designed to give neighborhoods the opportunity to expand their own agendas and develop more proactive methods of addressing their agenda items, evidence has proven that few to none of the participants in the NRP program have come from the ranks of minorities and renters. http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=21048&sID=16 Shawn Lewis, Field Neighborhood -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Meet Singles http://corp.mail.com/lavalife _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
