Sorry I can't respond extensively to all of the good clarifying question right now, but I want to say something about the definition of affordable housing, and provide a link to some relevant material.
There's a good reason it's hard to pin down the definition of affordable housing. Different funding sources establish different criteria for what they want to see. With respect to the City's policies and regulations, "affordable housing" usually but not always refers to housing units that are affordable to households earning 50% or less of the metropolitan median income. Housing is affordable to these households if housing costs do not consume more than 30% of household income. Some of the questions raised can be answered by looking at published City material. Here's a link to the former MCDA's 2002 report card on affordable housing production. It's got a lot of details on the housing projects that the City has funded recently. This should allow list members to draw some of their own conclusion about the types and locations of housing that's received city support. Click on "2002 Annual Affordable Housing Report". http://www.mcda.org/Housing/multifamily/progress.htm Tom Leighton City Planner Seward REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ 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
