I can't put my finger on the article, but somebody listed off the members of your housing transition team and it read like a who's who of many of the figures who gave substance to the Affordable Housing Task Force. Alan Arthur, Tom Foley, and David Fey, of course. I also recall Kathy ten Broek, Dorothy Bridges, Tom Strietz, Gretchen Nicolls ... there's more, but I just can't remember them offhand, even though I'm personally acquainted with almost all of them.
I read Steve Brandt's report in this Wednesday's paper, December 19, 2001, and his final sentence has David Fey indicating that your housing efforts will be concentrated on the <50% MMI target. When we see each other on Friday at the Affordable Housing Advocate/Faith Community meeting, I will be asking you to recall that the activist run-up to the Affordable Housing Task Force and the Task Force itself stopped at 30% MMI. Now we are told that the target product of your transition team has moved on up to the very 50% benchmark that led me for one to abandon SSB and her supporters on the City Council. How did you get the doughty veterans on your housing transition team to abandon the 30% crowd? How have we activists accomplished anything if the replacement we supported now offer the very same elevated target that elides so very many of our city's households? What about using the City's MMI instead of the Metro MMI so we have a better handle on the reality trip? Fred Markus Horn Terrace Ward Ten __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
