Truth be told the monies and structures put in place to support affordable housing have become a monster that seeks to protect its self. Why would the city back million dollar townhomes on the river yet allow thousands of homes to be destroyed? Money and power seek money and power, this is how ssb and cherryhomes played it. I believe the admin. in power now will try to overcome the dfl, we love the developers money, to create housing for the less fortunate of mpls. Dain Lyngstad phillips/edina --- Michael Atherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > R.T. Rybak wrote: > > > There will be more coming on this but it would be > helpful if > > people who do not live in public housing would > read these > > stories and try to become familiar...we need help > from many > > sides so we can help get these buildings the help > they need. > > I think that it is clear, that in the long run, we > should > work towards the elimination public housing. In the > short > term it appears that the agencies involved will be > able to > absorb the cuts. For instance, it is unclear to me > what > would be impact in Minneapolis given that in St. > Paul the > result would be to: > > "...lose between five and 20 jobs from the > 245-member staff. In addition, it may have to > close the waiting list for housing, suspend > non-emergency overtime and eliminate training > and travel and some offices." > > Why are they paying for non-emergency overtime and > traveling > anyway? > > I believe that we should reorient our approach to > public > housing from large public projects to serving > specific > needs and shifting to private ownership. That is to > say, > we need a provide a pathway from public housing to > private > ownership in situations where it is reasonable. It > is not > practical or cost effective to provide public > housing for > the lifetime of an individual. There are a number > of ways > that we can achieve this goal. > > 1. Provide short-term housing for the homeless. > Such housing > should be minimal. > > 2. Require that private developers allocate a > portion of their > projects be reserved as affordable housing. > > 3. Provide loan programs and training for low income > individuals > to become homeowners. > > The city already does all of these to some degree, > we just > need to focus more on the goal of eliminating public > housing > altogether. > > Michael Atherton > Prospect Park > > TEMPORARY REMINDER: > 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. > 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as > possible. > > ________________________________ > > 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
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