[Mpls] City asks for extension of 7 year deadline to replace Holman housing while giving citizen no time to repaint

[Dyna]

	I note with interest how our City's attorneys are pleading for extra 
time after being in seven long years unable or more likely unwilling to 
comply with the Holman decree they so eagerly signed. With many who 
were evicted from the old "projects" left homeless and lost to (city) 
followup we clearly will never see the city live up to it's Holman 
promises. Even the newest boondoggle in the bog, Heritage Park, is 
after seven years not even half complete never mind occupied. Clearly 
like virtually every city "clear cutting" urban renewal project that 
preceded it Heritage Park will be home to lots of dirt and weeds for 
years if not decades to come.

	Meanwhile, I have offered to settle the city's criminal charges of 
possession of peeling paint with a stipulated timetable of when the 
"problem" will be abated. The same city's attorneys have shown no 
interest in actually resolving the "problem" by such means, apparently 
preferring a substantial fine instead. Having just spent several 
hundred dollars on new windows and insulation for my home and with 
property taxes soon due, needless to say I have no money for fines,..

	Another house up the street just spouted a "For Sale" sign, after but 
a few months occupancy the new owners have had it with the largely 
unpoliced drug dealing in front of them. After being on the market all 
year the other 3 homes remain unsold. Out in greater Minnesota property 
values are starting to rise and the best bargains are disappearing- 
perhaps it's time to retire early and beat the rush as the "baby 
boomers" abandon Minneapolis for the countryside.

	hidin' out in Hawthorne,

		Dyna Sluyter 
  

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