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Keith asks; Why does our city's desegregation plan include building, owning, and operating (and placing valued Mpls. residents) in rental property outside our City limits?WM: As I remember it, the plan was based in the fact that the city of Mpls. had the great bulk of those who lived by subsidy, leaving no feasible way to contain costs or to keep, in the long run, its middle class base. It was therefore put forward that the way to make subsidizing families possible in future was to spread the families among the seven county area.
Once, cities might have annexed contiguous townships in order to grow. By the time that notion struck the city council, the suburbs had already grown too powerful to make it feasible. IMHO, the city should have annexed all the way to the 494/694 beltway. The city would have had to do that when freeways first raised their heads as a probability.
However, last time I checked (somewhere around 1985), 33rd and Stinson was still inside the city limits.
I am curious cause I do not believe the MPHA, or City desegregation efforts, should involve exporting Mpls. residents. In fact I believe the MPHA has enough to do in-town and should not be involved in suburban housing, period.WM: The plan for the future of Minneapolis, put into play during the previous administration, was to persuade the suburbs to build the housing, own it or whatever, etc. However, the subs balked at the idea.
What do you think?WM: I think the plan was a good one, but once there is a change of administrations, two things ensue: one, the new administration is stuck with carrying through those parts of the previous administration's work that have already been promised, contracted, and/or moved forward; and two, the new administration, promising change, is looking for ways to cut off the previous administration's plans, whether they have a plan in place or not (and this administration seems to not have a plan to call it's own).
It's a good thing for people who are city born and bred to try, on a renter basis, living in other settings, if only to assess why they prefer the city alongside what they like about the suburbs, the ex-urbs, small town, or a rural setting.
WizardMarks, Central
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