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���� With bridge rods preventing people who are homeless from finding shelter under our bridges... the opportunity to list bridges as units of affordable housing has been missed by our Mayor. ���� Margaret Hastings-Mps-Kingfield Margaret and others may be pleased to know that the mayor's office announced at yesterday's Shelter advisory board meeting that they would discontinue counting shelter bed/mats in their affordable housing stats. Mayoral aide Erik Takeshita said the mayor's office was responding to community concerns and wanted to be transparent in how affordable housing numbers were used. To answer Ken Bradley's question from yesterday, the city has counted shelter beds since the City Council originated the count in 1999. Rybak inherited the system, and yesterday, he finally changed it. Also of note: the mayor's office said they would not change the goals of producing/creating affordable housing - which means they have to build/preserve 650 units a year WITHOUT counting shelter beds, as in the past. Details are in the Dec. 4 SW Journal, out today, and in the Dec. 8 Skyway News out Monday. (Self-serving note: credit goes to reporter Scott Russell, whose enterprise uncovered this story in the first place.) David Brauer Kingfield Editor, SW Journal and Skyway News 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
