Jim Graham wrote: > This was an example of Neighborhood representatives joining with elected > Hennepin County Officials to create a program to give people "SUSTAINABLE > AFFORDABLE HOMEOWNERSHIP". It complies with the very heart of NRP. It uses > a small amount of public money to leverage over 20 times that amount for a > redevelopment opportunity. It is a "Neighborhood Initiative" that > stabilizes Neighborhoods and Communities, and it gives economic opportunity > to poor people who would not have that opportunity otherwise. It creates > affordable housing! It IS the very essence of what NRP was designed to do. > > The real question should be what motivates those who object? We really need > to look closely at those people and determine their reasoning and their > future believability. They certainly DO NOT represent either poor people's > interests or neighborhoods. Exactly whom do they represent?
Mark Anderson response: Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Jim Graham has written paragraph after paragraph (after paragraph) about NRP and neighborhood empowerment and how the neighborhoods can do a much better job than the city spending money, and on and on. Now he's decided that this centralized spending program (which seems to be at the expense of NRP money going to the neighborhoods?) is the greatest thing since sliced bread. What's the difference? Why it's on Jim Graham's agenda, so of course it makes sense! Jim Graham and a couple of other neighborhood folks were there to represent all the poor people in Minneapolis, so anyone against it must have some other hidden agenda, right? You know Jim, I haven't even decided if I agree with the proposal or not, but your sudden turnaround in supporting NRP city-wide initiatives sure smells to me. I think you should explain yourself here. Mark Anderson Bancroft 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
