Lydia Howell wrote, amongst other things: > 4.Here's a reality-check on homeless folks:40+% are EMPLOYED--they just > can't FIND houding threy can afford.Reality-check:a ONE-room efficiency > averages $450 a month--IF you can FIND it;a 1-bd rm is $625 a month. > Imagaine being a $5.50-6.00 an hour worker trying to pay for such > hosuing!
Mark Anderson replies: I think the obvious answer to this is to again allow rooming/boarding houses in Mpls. The rule against having a certain number of unrelated persons in one house is one of those laws written for a town with no lower class. Allowing a bunch of unrelated folks to share a house would result in most of that 40% being able to afford to pay their own way, which would free up a bunch of the shelters. Problem solved, with no public money spent! And at the same time it gives back pride to poor people because they can survive on their own. Admittedly, it would probably take a few years after the law was repealed for enough of the shared houses to reach the market. But we should be trying to solve long term problems as well as short term ones. Mark V Anderson Bancroft 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
