[Mpls] Co-Housing Issue

[WizardMarks]

Gregory Luce wrote:

>....
>Supportive housing of the kind proposed and/or being implemented by
>Collaborative Village Initiative or Lydia House are good models to help
>with these issues.
>
WM: I have to disagree with Mr. Luce about Collaborative Village under 
the aegis that the ends do not justify the means. Collaborative Village 
was plunked into Phillips against ordinance, against neighborhood. It is 
one of the more outstanding examples of poverty pimping in this area.

The Collaborative Village program may be just what the doctor ordered, 
but it is built on a dung heap. "The means foreshadow the ends" is 
actually truer to the mark. Humans being who we are, those folks who 
come to Collaborative Village for healing and learning and redirection 
will be subjected to resentment, not only for being ex-cons and etc., 
but because the neighborhood and the ordinance were dumped to gain the 
project--subsized by we truly.

What an already hugely disadvantaged neighborhood hears is that city 
ordinance does not apply to Joe Selvaggio and neighborhood (neighborhood 
meaning the body politic committee of the whole) needs are immaterial. 
Instead folks get a long song and dance about Joe Selvaggio having done 
all this and that for the poor and blah-blah. Tis both true and false, 
brothers and sisters. Joe's got a blind side wide as a suburban garage 
and Collaborative Village is one of its names.

>WizardMarks, Central
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