[Mpls] Stone Arch Apartments - Affordable to who?

[Michael Atherton]

Jim Graham wrote:

> The beauty of NRP is that it allows (or was intended to 
> allow) neighborhoods to make those priority decisions 
> themselves, in order to meet their particular needs and 
> priorities.  

The scary thing about the NRP is that supporters claim that
it is "neighborhoods" that make decisions, when in fact
it is a small minority of people who "show up" and those
who show up may have no expertise that qualifies them
for making decisions allocating hundreds of thousands
of dollars. In fact, much of the time they may use no 
common sense, curiosity, or sense of responsibility at all 
and in reality, the only requirement is that they do indeed 
"show up."  Which leaves the rest of us who are too busy
working and rising children at the mercy of their "decisions."

Michael Atherton
Prospect Park