Barbara's ideas reflect a strong will, courage, and personal motivation. They appear to focus on personal experience instead of acknowledging the interaction of any historical and cyclical poverty and discrimination.
Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps is a great thing, but if you've got one arm and one leg tied behind your back it can get a little tricky. Something as critical as housing merits controls because revenue optimization has no moral checkpoints. Regards, Jason Stone | Hale --- basia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are numerous alternatives to the anti-business idea of rent control. > 1. Minnesota still refunds a portion of the owners' property tax to lower > income renters. > 2. Get a roommate. > 3. Pool your resources and buy a house with a friend or 2. > 4. Graduate from high school, and then back to school and learn a trade or > profession to make more money. > 5. Plan on having a smaller family as they are less expensive. > 6. Wait until you are married, have finished school and have a job before > you start a family. Families with 2 parents have been proven to be more > successful. > > Outrageous old-fashioned ideas, but they have been proven to work. I am a > single Mom of a 15 year old son. I was, able to support myself when he was > born, so even though his Dad is deceased, we can get by. I also manage 66 > units of family section 8 in Minneapolis. I speak from experience. Most > young people that hear how long my waiting list is react with disgust when I > suggest they find a roommate as a temporary solution. It takes time, hard > work and dedication to support yourself and a family. The arrogance of some > insisting that everyone has a "right" to this or that is ridiculous. Try > earning it! I had roommates for years as an adult. My parents worked 2 > jobs. It is lack of motivation more than lack of income that is the > problem. > Barbara Murray > Riverside Park > > > TEMPORARY REMINDER: > 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject > (Mpls-specific, of course.) > > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
