The definition I've heard of "affordable housing' is 30 percent of income. A $600 apartment, if ALL utilities are included, costs $7200 a year. $7200/.3 is $24,000 a year. $24,000/2080 = $11.50 an hour. Retail employees don't MAKE $11.50 an hour. And that is what the modal employee does.
If you make $7.50 an hour and IF you have 40 hour/week job, you make $15,600. Doing the rest of the math, it means an "affordable" domicile is $390 a month INCLUDING utilities. So, now which of you geniuses is renting for $390/month? Now as to the police and the Indians, has it occurred to anybody yet that they are the LESS frequently abused group? How about turning this discussion back to the group that is the USUAL target of violence? That is who should be #1 on RT's list. Not that he should ignore the Native American group. In fact, ideally, he should gather all the minority communities together in one problem-solving process. And he should find an assistant with more experience in this sort of thing to mastermind the changes. Someone to build up a fund of fact that can be used to construct a reform program. These ad hoc solutions just don't make it. They are just window-dressing. Lets put less emphasis on haste and more on lasting change. And along the way, can we muzzle the rhetoric a little, assuming we don't put a lot of value on grandstanding? -------------- Jim Mork--Cooper "Save yourself from this corrupt generation....All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need". Acts 2:4-45 "The disciples determined that according to their ability, each would send relief to the believers". Acts 11:29 "From each according to his ability...to each according to his need." Karl Marx Get your free Web-based E-mail at http://www.startribune.com/stribmail 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
