On Friday December 7, 2018, Council Members Abdi Warsame and Andrea Jenkins became the new faces of displacement by authoring and passing a resolution at Minneapolis City Council to privatize and dismantle public housing.

Let’s Be Clear:

This resolution is dangerous to the lives of public housing residents and endorses MPHA’s privatization plans because relocation is displacement. It actually replicates the same language and talking points that MPHA has been pushing that is it’s RAD plans at Elliot Twins.
First, it opens the door to the privatization of Minneapolis public housing by embracing ‘conversion’ and empowers MPHA on that path. The entire first page is taken directly from MPHA’s presentation about RAD, which insists that there is no federal funding or otherwise available to keep public housing public which is not true. In addition, Cam Gordon ordered staff to do an MOU agreement to make sure that relocation which is displacement and investment which is private dollars and developers taking over public housing in place between City of Minneapolis and MPHA.

For more evidence of MPHA’s lies about their funding, and an explanation of how this resolution came to be and its history, please open the link below.

 https://tinyurl.com/Warsame-Jenkins-Resolution

The battle to save public housing is far from over. This resolution has finally shed the light on where the City of Minneapolis and their “progressive” council members stand. In addition, 80% of the public housing residents are Black (African American and East African). It is very telling that two Black Council Members (Abdi Warsame, Somali, and Andrea Jenkins, African American) have become the faces of destroying public housing and Black communities in Minneapolis.

See the full resolution passed by the City Council here: https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/…/Support%20for%20Public%20H…)

Contact Council Member Abdi Warsame and Andrea Jenkins and Chairman Cam Gordon of the Housing Policy& Development Committee who pushed this resolution as it was hidden in the 2040 Comp. Plan they passed on Friday and he did not notify residents. We thought Cam Gordon was our ally. But he is not. Hold them accountable for furthering the path to destroy and displace our homes and communities.

Ward 6: Abdi Warsame
abdi.warsame@minneapolismn.gov
(612) 673 – 2206
@AbdiYWarsame

Ward 8: Andrea Jenkins
andrea.jenkins@minneapolismn.gov
(612) 673 – 2208
@annapoetic

Ward 2: Cam Gordon
cam.gordon@minneapolismn.gov
(612) 673 – 2202
@CameronAGordon

Read the full report of what took place at City Hall here: https://tinyurl.com/Warsame-Jenkins-Resolution