This article shows how the voluntary privatization program called RAD is displacing and evicting public housing residents in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Important quotes from the article:

“The Housing Authority made some public promises about how the [privatization] was going to secure the rights tenants had, that those would carry over,” said David Prater, an attorney with Disability Rights Maryland. “What we’ve seen is that has not always been the case. The privatization has caused many to lose out on their rights.”
“The privatization program’s rules guarantee that tenants will receive the same rights as they did under public housing laws, but Prater said he’s seeing violations.”

“Some RAD tenants have been evicted after receiving Notices to Vacate that did not conform to the legal requirements,” he wrote. “We are also concerned that residents are vacating their units after receiving notice, but before a hearing in court, as a result of receiving notices that failed to provide the required notice of due process and tenant rights. We have no way of knowing how many residents unwittingly vacated their units after receiving a Notice of Lease Termination that was likely legally flawed.”

Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) is planning do the same thing in Minneapolis. They applied to HUD to implement RAD and they are still waiting for a decision. MPHA has already received approval/endorsement through this resolution that the City of Minneapolis unanimously passed on December 7th 2018, the same day the City approved the 2040 Comprehensive Plan. MPHA and the City of Minneapolis are using RAD as a tool to gentrify and displace public housing residents out of Minneapolis starting with Elliot Twins in Ward 6 which is inline with their 2040 Comprehensive Plan. After Elliot Twins, MPHA’s targets are Glendale Townhomes, two properties in Ward 3 and one property in Ward 4 as outlined in MPHA’s Strategic Vision & Capital Plan/Proposal (click here)submitted to the City of Minneapolis Housing Policy & Development Committee Chaired by Cam Gordon in June 2018. After these properties are privatized, MPHA plans to privatize/ displace the rest of the 42 public housing high-rises, over 740 single family homes, and more properties throughout the city where over 12,000 low -income residents, majority Black, Black Muslims, Seniors, people with disabilities and families with children call home and community. 
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