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CPED is saying that CPED should determine how NRP dollars should be spent, basically taking the N out of NRP.WM: It has been MCDA (now CPED)'s contention from the beginning that neighborhoods do the planning and CPED control the funds. Certainly, in my neighborhood, we went round and round with MCDA to the point where Darryl Hall quit his job at MCDA to save his sanity. Neighborhood people treated him very badly. We fought like the very devil to save about 40 of our 83 vacant and boarded houses. We were over the top, not only with some of our demands, but in the nasty way we went about insisting on saving houses.
I would also note that CPED's attempt to own NRP dollars is antithetical to current approved NRP policy and procedure.
As it shook out through the first half of NRP, administration costs were very high, as they had to be when neighborhood offices were so situated that they could not share resources with other neighborhoods, resources like copy machines, secretarial assistance, office management. CPED makes the argument that they can do this more efficiently.
The neighborhoods, particularly mine and Phillips on the southside, made the argument that the Target City era did a huge amount of housing 30 or so years ago, but it didn't work simply because the support systems were not in place to mend the broken human infrastructure which had deteriorated almost fatally over the previous 30 years. Red lining, not only by banks and insurance companies, but by the city itself in terms of public works, removal of schools, poor decisions from the library and park boards, and MCDA had created slums out of blue collar neighborhoods.
Much of the amorphous, floating blame for the deterioration of neighborhoods in Mpls. can be attributed to the peculiar notion that if it's old, knock it down and start over. I have to say that, on some level, I cannot understand this idea at all. I note in passing, that St. Paul's Selby-Dale area had suffered the same red lining, but had taken an entirely different attitude toward it. Bit by bit over the last 30 years (maybe more, I moved here 30 years ago) that neighborhood is coming back to look quite nice, but they saved many more houses than we have here.
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