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What we should have done in the 70's and should be doing now is providing affordable housing in ALL neighborhoods in Minneapolis and the inner and outer ring suburbs so that we can achieve real desegregation and not the fantasy that exists now.
Instead of concentrating poverty in Minneapolis your plan is to disperse it....where? Excelsior?
:-D
Unfortunately, there is a great many limousine liberals out there who think it's just fine to keep all the poor and all the people with special needs enclaved in "certain" neighborhoods.
That's crime containment. I don't think the good taxpayers in Eden Prairie want to hear boom cars tooling down Pioneer Trail, nor gun fire, for that matter.
They keep pouring money into non-profit organizations that support this concentration in their building policies, they keep winning elections, they keep enforcing these failed policies and they keep holding hot dog roasts and candlelight vigils when the bullets fly.
The policy hasn't failed. It's worked well for the most part.
N.I. Krasnov Loring Park
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