[Mpls] I concur with Don Samuels: (was My statement today on the River Run Proposal)

[Dyna]

	Don Samuels voted right for the Northside and Northeast on this one. 
This was yet another rental housing project being jammed down the 
throats of communities that are littered with "For Rent" signs already. 
These are communities where too many citizens have for too long been 
denied the opportunity for home ownership. Homeowners are vested in 
their communities and are a stabilizing influence that helps fight 
crime and build sustainable communities. Homeownership advances 
families economically and provides multigenerational shelter and a way 
out of poverty.

	Which begs the question: Given that homeownership helps lift families 
out of poverty, why are we continuing to build public housing? 
Especially when it's cheaper- this ill concieved projetct would have 
cost $250,000 for each unit of Holman replacement housing. It would 
have been cheaper to give each of families evicted by Holman a $100, 
000 new house back in 1995!

	But just think how many MPHA, "nonprofit", and Sherman et al managers 
that would have put out of work!

	hidin' out in Hawthorne,

		Dyna Sluyter

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