What does CCHT say it is going to cost per unit for this housing in the Harrison neighborhood??
Steve Meldahl Jordan (work) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Sittko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:31 PM Subject: [Mpls] RE: Mr. Arthur's CCHT response > 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 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
