Mayor Rybak announced a short time back that he is proposing that Cathy ten
Broeke be his housing Czar on homelessness with that cost inserted into his
2006 budget.
I certainly have nothing against Ms. ten Broeke. She is a very caring,
committed person when it comes to her dedication to end hom
I, Keith Reitman, am an undecided vote in the upcoming Mayoral election. I am
not attracted to McLaughlin I have respect for RT's efforts to run this City
in the midst of great fiscal challenges. He has also studied the Northside
quite a bit during his tenure; bravo that. I wish he had met more
In response to yesterday's S'Trib editorial, until more bridges can be
built (no, I don't mean that), take a look at a story in today's Washington
Post:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48353-2005Apr12.html
Has a Stand Down been tried for homeless people? I know it won't do
anything for
Wizard said:
"Barb, being American born and bred, thinks it
inappropriate to put housing over industrial."
Me:
While I may be born and bred in America, I have lived
in India, Toronto, Winnipeg, San Francisco and Denver.
I do not recall seeing housing on top of industrial in
any of those cities.
M.G. Wrote:
This summer you can play mini-golf at the Walker Sculpture Garden. Sure, the
Ice Palace is cheesy, but 750,000 people still went. Learn Scottish dancing.
Choose from about a thousand different yoga stores. Visit the model
railroading exhibit in Bandana Square. Cool off in Lake Noko
Dyna Sluter wrote:
>Since then the market has crashed<
Dyna,
This simply isn't true. Your block may or may not be seeing declining housing
prices. But they aren't declining in the rest of the northside; they're going
up.
I know this can't continue forever; certainly not double-digit annu
The Jordan Area Community Council led the campaign to get a rental
property licensing ordinance passed in Minneapolis in 1991
We wanted rental property licensing because we found that too many
problem landlords, when cited for serious code violations, would choose
to pay the fine rather than make
List members Allysen Hoberg asked me to forward her response to the Peeling Paint
thread. PLEASE READ. While I may be a crank from time to time, she's not. Her
message is the most informative one I've read so far regarding the peeling paint
controversy.Peter Schmitz CARAG
--
Bill Cullen wrote:
There were some claims that 20 residents are living in one housing unit and
the landlord is making a bundle. It is violation of ordinance 546.50 to
have more than 4 unrelated individuals living in a single housing unit. If
such a thing exists, please call the inspectors. I be
I appreciate this important discussion (like so many on this list) and I think
that Dave Carlson is zeroing in on what may be the major problem: not enforcing
the current codes.
In Minneapolis rental properties are supposed to pass a city inspection before
getting a full license. The City, ho
Is anyone actually aware of either a landlord or an "enterprising leasee"
pulling a stunt like this beyond talk radio hearsay?
As a "landlord" in Dinkytown (fraternity housing board member), the only
houses I am aware of around the U that have 20 or more occupants are the
Greek houses, many of wh
I have seen many questions about housing.
Smoke detectors are required in all Mpls housing (owner occupied too).
Ordinance 244.915 outlines the requirements. Look out Dyna. :)
As a landlord, I inspect every unit twice per year. I find many of the
smoke detectors are disabled. The battery is
list, had never had
this bldg inspected and still had a provisional rental license?
I went to the Mpls Housing Insp site to try and get some answers and was
struck by their mission statement. The first point is to promote safe public
housing. I think they have some work to do. For some of you who ha
Dennis Plante Responds:
More than likely, in the case of houses where there are 20 inhabitants each
paying $350/mo., some enterprising leasee (college student) is the one
charging the inhabitants, not the landlord.
Dennis Plante
Jordan
Bill Dooley Writes:
I have not read all of this thread s
nt: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Housing codes
Michael Atherton writes:
> Are smoke detectors not required in rental housing? I don't understand
> how people could die of smoke inhalation if the smoke detectors had
> been working and th
Michael Atherton writes:
> Are smoke detectors not required in rental housing? I don't understand
> how people could die of smoke inhalation if the smoke detectors had
> been working and the required exits were up to code.
Having just lived in a duplex in St. Anthony East with _absolutely_ no fir
Michael Atherton writes:
> For
> example, why do affordable housing advocates believe that we
> need to subsidize individual family housing units rather than
> multiple family units?
Do you mean more than one family living in housing, or multi-unit housing
such as apartments or condos?
In my da
Terrell Brown wrote:
> CM Zerby was on the tube talking about "over occupancy". I'm not
> convinced that an extra "U" student or 2 necessarily creates a hazard
> and likely isn't "slum conditions". Are we going to apply the same
> standards to recent immigrants that Zerby seems to want to apply
Terrell Brown says: I think there is often a difference between a code
violation and unsafe conditions. Take Dyna's peeling paint. Now I
haven't personally inspected Dyna's peeling paint, but I have seen
peeling paint that isn't really a hazard. Peeling paint may not be
pleasing to the eyes an
--- Peter T Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
> Peter responds: When R.T. Rybak was candidate for mayor he proposed
> relaxing codes for rental properties in order to expand the
> affordable
> housing market. I never warmed up to this idea, even when I had a
> more
> favorable impression of
Folks,
I have to agree with Barbara Murray about the rent issue. Yes, rents are high, although the rapid increase in rent prices seems to have slowed or stopped. Two reasons I can think of: One, the higher prices, combined with the lower taxes on rental properties (2001 leg. session) have worked t
1. Top Managers appointed to CPED.
2. Year-to-date accomplishments in
housing.___
1. Top managers appointed to CPED.
Today we announced that Lee Sheehy, Interim Executive Director of the City's new
Office of Community Planning an
It seems to
> me there are only two rational ways to use NRP to get people into
affordable
> housing: subsidize rents or guarantee mortgages. You could ADD units, but
> then what happens to the unoccupied units out there now? I'm no great
lover
> of the whole class of landlords, but hey, if they
I found it very interest to read Peter McLaughlin's email on NRP's mortgage
guarantee proposal. There were lots of details, and I won't rehash most of
them, but I DO want to focus on just one, the process.
As I've said previously, my experience as a drone in the machinery of the
city convinces
Mark Anderson:
"Jim -- the point you missed is that we were discussing full-time single people"
I see. So your claim is that ONLY the people in this category can "afford" market rate
housing, and probably ONLY by sharing the apartment. I don't remember seeing this in
Vicky's computation. Person
And as the NRP staff to all three regions of Phillips
and the illustrious new neighborhood of Ventura
Village I will confirm that you are not only like
herding cats, you scratch and hiss when you're
cornered. (Tongue in cheek)
Barb Lickness
Whittier
=
"Never doubt that a small group of though
Thank you, Jim Mork. Your "herding" comment brought to mind my favorite
commercial from last year's Super Bowl. The one where cowboys were herding
cats. I laughed my head off! Herding people to NRP meetings, or "making"
them take a particular action would, in our community at least, be like
herdi
Gregory:
Like all the critics of NRP, you too fail to respond with practical suggestions. You
merely fault those who differ with you and paint them as naive or indifferent to
inclusiveness. But you haven't any proof of that at all. There IS no obligation to do
"street-level" work to herd th
nd recommended. I would like
to see the same from people who are critical of this call for change,
rather than quick dismissals based on ideology or, actually, nothing in
particular.
Gregory Luce
Project 504/Minneapolis
St. Paul
Jim Mork wrote:
> Subject: [Mpls] Housing and NRP Reform Proposa
Subject: [Mpls] Housing and NRP Reform Proposals
In short, less militant rhetoric, more practical talk, would be welcome.
I've gone to the meetings here in Longfellow, and we're lucky if ONE
minority shows up who can be DRAFTED to represent the whole community. The
problem we seem to
It is interesting to me that the federal administration is so calm about deficits when
they come from tax cuts or military increases but so vexed about the possibility of
spending adequate funds for housing. Frankly, I think there's no need to cut housing
funds from Minneapolis if they can affo
It is interesting to me that the federal administration is so calm about deficits when
they come from tax cuts or military increases but so vexed about the possibility of
spending adequate funds for housing. Frankly, I think there's no need to cut housing
funds from Minneapolis if they can affo
The more I think about these properties, the more I believe that where there's a
will, there's a way. For example, how about a little creative financing to make
houses on these lots affordable?
Here's one idea:
The city could lend a prospective owner a reasonable portion of the downpayment
requir
I can see why residents want market-rate housing in their neighborhoods. I
would too. Why is it contradictory to have market-rate housing that is also
"affordable"?
When you wrote of affordable housing, you did not specify what you meant by
affordable. The affordable housing they are building o
Interesting story in today's NY Times regarding the ongoing demolition of
Chicago's high-rise housing projects, and the relocation of residents. A
lawsuit has been filed contending that former residents are being steered to
mostly black, high-crime and impoverished neighborhoods, perpetuating
segr
Vanessa and Anne, I concur too- home ownership is one of the
major contributors to community stabilisation, and promoting home
ownership should be a top city priority.
Praise be! Vanessa, we agree on something. I would add to your list of
excellent options, condominiums. Not every one has the
Biernat
resigns from City Council Hours after a jury convicted him of
five felony counts, Minneapolis City Council member Joe Biernat resigned,
Council President Paul Ostrow said this morning. Ostrow also said a
primary election on Dec.
In my opinion, the right to housing for everyone should be a right protected by Federal Law.
I noticed in reading about the 35 W access project that the law of Imminent Domain might be applied: I noticed that it was mentioned that housing would be torn down to make way for that project. I am guessi
A point of clarification. Sorry if I repeat some of what I've said in an earlier post.
M Lavingarz states, "you need to know that the City Council is about to revoke a law
controlling the concentration of supportive housing." This is not accurate. The
issue is not before the City Council at t
It would take a long time for me to teach Listmembers the necessary
accounting skills to detect a scam. What you do need to know - to ask the
right questions - is pretty simple. Here are three points, more to come
later.
1. A PROJECT'S INCOME MUST BE ENOUGH TO COVER EXPENSES AND DEBT SERVICE.
Hello list,
There's so much to respond to on the list recently.
I'm going to start with start with two of Vickie's recent posts and work backwards.
Housing--
I think Vickie is a sharp business person with a pretty good
understanding of finance and development issues. Her research into a
riverf
the bottom of the 10th to the top of the 11th.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf
Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Mpls] Housing programs?
Does Minneapolis have any programs or assistance
Does Minneapolis have any programs or assistance for first time buyers?
I have a young friend that just got turned down for a commercial loan even
though she had enough money to put 25% down. The problem was the bank only
looked at her adjusted gross income which was low for her this year be
Landlords, tenants air differences at Minneapolis housing summit
Steve Brandt
Star Tribune
Published Apr 8, 2002
Differences between landlords and tenants are nothing new to housing, but
they sparked some of the most passionate debate Sunday at Minneapolis Mayor
R.T. Rybak's second affordabl
List members in the news following RT Rybak's second housing summit:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/2214163.html
What happened in Dinkytown Saturday nigh? Police say riot, students say
lots of things
http://www.startribune.com/stories/512/2214207.html
David Brauer
List manager
_
A
previous post asked:
Where
are the affordable housing advocates?
The
answer, I hope, is at the Shine Center on Park Av. and 25th Sunday from
3-6. That's when we are having the second Housing
Summit.
This
is a follow to the Summit right after I took office.
Now we
are getting to
Re: Rybak's
comment he would like to get real estate (housing) tax incentives
restored that had been taken away in the 1980s, specifically
1986.
The new mayor is on
the right trail, if those tax incentives were restored you would have big turn
around in private investment i
I agree with Britt Robson that this amounts to cluster-bombing of
rhetorical questions rather than engaging in a real discussion. I get
the point, after all, that you object to what you perceive to be
excessive subsidies. Plus, I asked a general question about a recent
trend where some landl
I would be happy to answer any question, in fact I would be REQUIRED to, if
I had my hand in the public till. But I don't.
Minneapolis is in deep financial doo doo BECAUSE no one asks questions. Now
that I've asked, it seems like getting an honest answer might a problem too.
Vicky Heller
St. P
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,
This sort of rhetorical cluster-bombing in lieu of a reply has become all too frequent
on this list. To elucidate what I'm talking about, may I ask Ms. Heller what she does
for a living, what she used to do in her three positions before that, how much money
she currently makes from it, how much
TWO CORRECTIONS: My prior message referred to Lynnhurst Neighborhood
Association support for the Boulevard project. As Mr. Lohman wrote in his
message, the LYNAS Board voted not to oppose the project. Also, the prior
post and this one should have been-and now are signed-
Lisa Kugler
Tangletown
>David Kortz wrote:
>One rainy Saturday afternoon earlier this year, I happened to run into a
>protest in the business district around 55th and Lyndale. (Old Boulevard
>Theatre area). Apparently, the businesses were voicing their concern
>about a proposal to build affordable housing in the a
You asked about the proposed affordable housing project - it is actually
located at 5320 Lyndale Avenue - and whether it will affect the existing
businesses in the area.
The proposal is for 24 housing units and 7,000 square feet of commercial
space. 10 units (40%) have rents affordable to 60%
A few questions about the 3 projects you mentioned:
100+ units planned for going up at the corner of Franklin and Portland
76 units very likely going up on Franklin and 15th Avenue
900 units going up over at Near North (now called "Heritage Park")
What is the total amount of the pub
One rainy Saturday afternoon earlier this year, I happened to run into a
protest in the business district around 55th and Lyndale. (Old Boulevard
Theatre area). Apparently, the businesses were voicing their concern
about a proposal to build affordable housing in the area.
Does anyone know about
Hello--As many of you know, I work for County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin,
and we have been following the land trust debate with great interest. He
asked me to let you all know that Hennepin County, under an amendment
sponsored by Peter, provided $25,000 for the PRG Land Trust, by working wi
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 8:24 PM
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Subject: [Mpls] Housing For-Profit Voice/ RT--Check your E-mail;then
answer
In a message dated 12/11/01 11:37:03 AM Central Standard Time, PennBroKeith
writes:
<< Subj:Re:
In a message dated 12/11/01 11:37:03 AM Central Standard Time, PennBroKeith
writes:
<< Subj: Re: [Mpls] Housing/ RT, can WE come to the table?
Date: 12/11/01 11:37:03 AM Central Standard Time
From: mailto:PennBroKeith";>PennBroKeith
To:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
In a message dated 12/7/01 11:34:53 AM Central Standard Time, PennBroKeith
writes:
<< >RT, (When) Can We Come To the Table?
I believe it defies logic to leave for-profit, small business people
called landlord, out of the mainstream committee formed to help determine
future city housing poli
I have a suggestion for RT and the new council. City inspections at the
behest of the city attorneys office are pressing the landlords to take over
another responsibility of the city's. Seems some court ruled that the city
can't take landlords notice as sufficient notice to perform a city mandat
In a message dated 12/7/01 11:21:09 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<<
As far as the coverage of my actions, this is true. But it's not the case.
This afternoon I'm meeting with David Fey and our affordable housing task
force, which has been working very hard over the pa
I promise not to spam people with more emailsand I'm about to go back
into a cave for a few days... but wanted to also pick up on this point from
Eva:
"What bothers me is RT seems to be spending much more of his time
and energy on the Twins stadium that he has on the issues he ran on --
name
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [from GDL post] In addition, we have to engage lenders in some of these
> discussions. Lenders have absolutely no interest in a building's occupancy
> once they foreclose--they would rather the building sit empty, shut off the
> water, etc., until it is sold. We n
CTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: [Mpls] Housing Crisis & A Challenge for the New Council & Mayor
> David Piehl writes:
>
> Some months ago, there was lengthy discussion on the reduction in total
number
> of dwelling units available in the city of Mi
In a message dated 11/16/01 11:47:26 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<<
Other issues: a few folks have suggested that the moratorium would affect
currently occupied "problem" properties in that it would not demolish those
quickly enough. I have trouble with that jump--t
Gregory Luce writes on smart codes and condemned housing rehab
- Original Message -
From: Gregory Luce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[much deleted text]
[T]he city issued a list of required repairs, all of
> which I've listed at the end of this e-mail. The list is unusual only in
> the sense that
I thought David's original post was fairly limited, in that it involved a moratorium
on demolition while we review how to recycle/reuse items in a building scheduled for
demo (or revisit whether to demo at all). Not a bad idea, though a review of policy
will often take a long long time, and bui
According to a Planning Department 2000 Census Report and verified against
Census Bureau website data, the number of Census-enumerated housing units in
Minneapolis are:
1980: 168,828
1990: 172,666
2000: 168,606
Absolute decrease of 4,060 housing units. The number of occupied dwelling
units went
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Housing Crisis & A Challenge for the New Council & Mayor
Wizard Marks wrote:
Snip
It's getting harder and harder to keep
up with the demands of an old house.
snip
Empty nesters, whether suburban
or urban or rural transplants, can probably say 'been th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If one couples this experience with statements made by senior staff at the MCDA
> about the value of new construction, and that new construction is the only way
> to attract suburban buyers, then it lends credibility to the "demolition quest"
> theory.
<<>>
To be fair
Tim Bonham wrote:
Statements like the following always seem to set my personal BS detector
ringing:
>Most of us are well aware that a major contributor to the affordable housing
>crisis is the "demolition quest" the city has been on for almost a decade.
Whenever anyone starts out saying "we a
T NOW.
Craig Miller
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Former Fultonite
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From: "Constance Nompelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Amanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 7:27 PM
Subject: [Mpls] Housing demolition mo
This is great thread, to which I'll add my two cents:
All of the suggestions so far have been about how the
city or MCDA could deal with problem properties. I
think that is the wrong approach.
First, the demolition moratorium idea: this could
leave a bunch of derelict houses sitting around,
cau
I worked at CNIA in the Central Neighborhood for 8 years and we as a
neighborhood organization began a no housing loss initiative and
fought against rehab assessments MCDA would put on homes to authorize
demolishing them.
One time, we did a tour which is on video archive at the NRP office, done
Statements like the following always seem to set my personal BS detector
ringing:
>Most of us are well aware that a major contributor to the affordable housing
>crisis is the "demolition quest" the city has been on for almost a decade.
>...
>David Piehl
>Central/8th Ward
Whenever anyone starts ou
The discussion around this topic is great - and I still support the idea.
Further thoughts:
Mr. Atherton asserted that it could actually delay the creation of affordable
housing. I presume that this is based on the idea that delays in demolition
translate into delays for new, replacement hou
I will bet that someone living next to a house that has been boarded for 20
months, has addicts breaking into it to shoot up, which has become the Hyatt
Regency for rats and cockroaches, whose yard looks like the Amazon, and for
which there are no tangible prospects for a rehabber to come in and f
768
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Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 5:03 PM
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Subject: [Mpls] Housing Crisis & A Challenge for the New Council & Mayor
Most of us are well aware that a major co
It seems there are ways to deal with all the problems you name other
than demolishing the house. If it is unsafe, it can be vacated for
safety reasons, and fixed up.
The moratorium on demolition seems a good idea to me as well. As I
understand the city's current policy, a house is torn down if i
Councilmember Zerby:
A moratorium on housing demolition is overbroad.
Instead we need better regs which set clear standards
for when structures should be demolished. I know its
a lot more complicated, but that is reality.
As I said in my post the other day, houses have life
cycles, just like ca
Paul Zerby wrote:
> David's idea of a moratorium on housing demolition strikes me as a
> good idea and I'd be inclined to favor it. Are there any downsides
> to it that other list members think merit attention before adopting
> it?
A moratorium on demolition could delay needed affordable housin
David's idea of a moratorium on housing demolition strikes me as a
good idea and I'd be inclined to favor it. Are there any downsides
to it that other list members think merit attention before adopting
it?
Paul Zerby
=
Elizabeth J. Zerby
Minneapolis MN
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Most of us are well aware that a major contributor to the affordable housing
crisis is the "demolition quest" the city has been on for almost a decade.
Clearly, the most affordable housing is the housing that we already have. A lot
of funny math and "functional silo" behavior on the part of c
Craig Miller wrote:
> Kudos Mr. Luce for bringing this to the forum! He has caught the spark in
> the ether. All this work and the extraordinary cost generates from the
> behavior of a tenant. Not the landlord. Because this citizen/tenant
> routinely broke the law, the house was condemned!
ED]>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:25 PM
Subject: [Mpls] Housing Code: No. 1
> I thought it would be useful to bring some real context to the debate
> about the housing code and RT Rybak's and others' issues about "smart
> codes" (something I support so long as i
I thought it would be useful to bring some real context to the debate
about the housing code and RT Rybak's and others' issues about "smart
codes" (something I support so long as it does not ultimately jeopardize
tenant safety). So, occasionally I'll post to this list the status of a
property
to let the city off the hook by stating this. I strongly feel
that we should save as many old building as possible, and we should learn to
deal with the extra difficulties of rehab.
Dave Stack
Harrison
> From: Kim Goodman
> Subject: City of MPLS & Housing
>> I am angry. I
Hi, Annie Young! On 10/27/01 2:09 AM, you wrote:
> And if nothing else shoudn't The City should have contracted with The Green
> Institute's DeConstruction program to take all that is salvagable out of
> the house first? Gross! What is so difficult about understanding this
> issue. It seems so b
And if nothing else shoudn't The City should have contracted with The Green
Institute's DeConstruction program to take all that is salvagable out of
the house first? Gross! What is so difficult about understanding this
issue. It seems so basic.
In a sustainable community policies would be set t
I am angry. I am disappointed. And I am not surprised.
Yesterday afternoon a backhoe was delivered to tear down a turn of the
century home on my block to make way for a flood park.
It was not much to look at on the outside, but inside the woodwork was all
original varnish, oak and maple. The d
Last month the MPHA Board voted to authorize their staff to explore the
notion of having that agency be a full-boat developer of affordable housing,
not just a caretaker agency for the - ballpark figure - $500 million public
housing stock extant and wholly owned in Minneapolis. New federal rules a
Wizard raised good points. They need to be addressed and/or challenged.
The point of taking
>housing down is to make it impossible for the poor to find
>housing within the city and the value of homes to rise so
>taxes can as well.
I call this the boutiquing of the city. "Please no poor peopl
Between them, Bob Gustafson (Affordable housing thread) and
Craig Miller (Housing Crisis thread) point up some of the
issues which make the housing crisis such a tough nut to
crack.
-preservation vs. a desperate need for housing
-those who stand to get taxed out of their homes vs. using
tax mon
Cam has some good suggestions, but his last paragraph needs attention.
Cam asks that we bring all of the stake holders together. We have been
having roundtables with all of those people for quite awhile (16 years). It
doesn't work. When My hometown is serious about this issue they will
recogni
Jordan is right. The reports this morning only confirm what many folks have
been saying for years.
City planners reported that between 1990 and 2000 there was a net loss of over
1,500 housing units in Minneapolis. Between 1991 and 1998 the City demolished
more units than it added. The Family
Thanks to Jordan for highlighting the issue.
The quote Mr. Mondale "community leaders are not asleep at the switch" is
a hoot. I presume he includes elected and appointed government officials in
that grouping.I submit that the regional housing shortage has at minimum
been seriously aggrava
The census statistics appear to support what is obvious: the housing
situation in the metro area is a disaster, with fewer units created at
any time since the Great Depressions the lowest vacancy rate of any
metro area in the country, and the biggest increase in homeless -
according to the local
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Subject: [Mpls] housing and gentrification
A week ago I wrote this in an "addendum to g,g,and g."
"Jacking up could be demolishing 6000 units of housing
over a decade while your population is growing by
A week ago I wrote this in an "addendum to g,g,and g."
"Jacking up could be demolishing 6000 units of housing
over a decade while your population is growing by
14,300. Voila!"
then I went on to talk about creating scarcity and
supply and demand and other basic economic principles.
I was takin
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