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<br /> r, Pioneer Press • Including a mix of home cover points the Legislature tion law signed r
<br /> ownership and rental units that would be inclined to approve President Bush.
<br /> Private builders need to do are unsubsidized. For instance, this year, said Kit Hadley,hous- Charters are
<br /> A' '� ,," more to help solve the afford- in a for-sale housing develop- ing agency commissioner. financed schools
<br /> ' : ' able housing crisis in the state, ment, at least 20 percent of the "Cities and developers are organized by pa
<br /> 11 v.=•, the Minnesota Housing Finance units would have to sell for no pretty polarized and our con- teachers and run I
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<br /> g 1..„ % Agency told the Legislature in a more than the median cost of a cern for more lower price hous- of traditional dist
<br /> 's report released Monday. home in the community.The bill ing is so compelling that we tion.First started it
<br /> ,S Hugh But builders say this won't would call for cities to offer need to try to take some steps years ago, the cha
<br /> • Parmer tackle the real issue of afford- developers reasonable regulato-gulato- forward this year," she said. concept has spread
<br /> a ability. ry accommodations, including "We don't want to over-promise country. Cesar Cha
<br /> )icial of the U.S. "We always said the biggest increased density and smaller that this is some kind of silver in the fall with abc
<br /> T International thing the industry could do is lots. bullet.We're just trying to move dents, nearly all
<br /> Lt and newly make housing affordable to • Changing the way cities forward." Latino.
<br /> !sident of Min- more groups of people," said pay for road projects necessary Sen. Richard Cohen, DFL-St.
<br /> ted American Michael Noonan, developers' for development. Paul, who has authored other
<br /> nmittee. council chair of the Builders •Shifting the burden of proof legislation dealing with afford-
<br /> gist acts of Sept. Association of the Twin Cities. to cities to explain why they able housing, said the recom- -"€ i
<br /> that,he said. "They're (the housing agency) acted as they did if disputes mendations are a start,but they .:
<br /> Sly, in my view, silent on this issue, and the arise with developers. don't go far enough. ' ''-' I
<br /> y we'll finally do land-supply issue and we ■Requiring cities to consider "The recommendations " '.` ,
<br /> terrorism is to believe that's a real failure in the costs of local ordinances on would tend to let cities off the ^5. 4 ' k
<br /> a stake in stabili- the report." housing. hook a little bit and more so � .
<br /> said Monday."It's The 2001 Legislature asked Representatives of many than I might have hoped," he k .
<br /> i are desperate the housing agency to examine parties involved in the advisory said. "They put more emphasis 's,,
<br /> in training camps affordable housing laws and group, though, say the report on what the private developer f-
<br /> 1." ordinances throughout the doesn't offer enough real solu- can do rather than what the city ;
<br /> onprofit,interna- country. An advisory group of tions for the affordable housing should do."
<br /> nanitarian aid legislators, builders, city repre- crisis. Considering the emphasis
<br /> E, was founded in sentatives and affordable hous- "I was not surprised that we this year on the budget, Cohen V`41,171,
<br /> ing advocates met in the fall and were not able to come to a con- said there might be less focus - --
<br /> e Clinton admin- winter to develop policy objet- sensus," said Jay Schmitt, co- on policy issues, leaving doubt `""f' '"'�''
<br /> armer led U.S. tives,identifying"production of director of Isaiah, an organiza- for him about whether the
<br /> n relief opera- privately developed, unsubsi- tion representing religious affordable housing recommen- U.S. Secretary of 1
<br /> I to war in Koso- dized affordable housing"as the congregations in the metro area dations would pass. gartners David San,
<br /> iein_Hon- most important. and St.Cloud. Nina Cerda during
<br /> Ni a, and On Monday the housing "The builders and the cities, Mara H. Gottfried can be reached charter school in St
<br /> Et is and agency recommended several while they have legitimate con- at mgottfried@pioneerpress.com
<br /> points to be considered for legis- terns, are not grappling with or(651)228-5262.
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