One can see the reasons why I needed help. Mr Arthur's staff generated response appears to come straight from it's literature; save the Harrison comments which I'm sure CCHT wants to edit in soon.
Mr. Arthur's 14 year's of experience is in geographically containing poverty under the guise of being the only economically feasible option. Low income wage earners are forced to travel numerous miles because these projects are not pursued in neighborhoods that the likes of Mr. Arthur inhabit: Orono, Wayzata, Woodbury et. al. Accordingly, neighborhoods such as mine that are already among the poorest are forced to remain that way for the profit of others. Mr. Arthur paints a picture of a solid cohesive working relationship that his CCHT initiates with the neighborhoods he enters. Yet, all the responses I have received from my query are negative except for one...his own. My own year-long experience is negative so far as well. The project at Penn and Glenwood will add 60 units into an a space that they will not be able to work with due to historic limitations. CCHT did not even bother to research this when they spent over a million on the project because...why bother when you're connected enough to deal with it later. Well it did not work this time and now the density is going to be pushed hard. It has to be because now the project is constrained and to make it financially feasible they have to push the density even more. Moreover, it will be pushed on the low income side so the project looks palatable to the free money trough that CCHT soon hopes to belly up to. The effect? The Harrison neighborhood will see it's average home ownership rate decline when it is already approximately only 35% and we are already among the top 10 poorest neighborhoods. CCHT can jam 150 tenants in the building and walk away with a nice talking piece for future pamphlets..they created low income housing, they refurbished an old building etc etc. The problem is that they will not be the ones who have to live day to day with such low income density. Also, to be certain, this is not a latent misguided fear of low income citizens. This is a neighborhood fed up with being the social engineering playground for every mayor, think-tank or non-profit organization that wants to feather its cap by claiming to help the poor only to pen in the poverty. We simply don't want their brand of development in our neighborhood. They say tough..you're going to get it. It's a simple story that's been told before. We're getting the shaft because CCHT feels it can give it to us. Like I've said before, there are some supporters in the Harrison leadership that are for the project. Interestingly, some of these people have ties to CCHT or don't even live near the project. 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
