Dear Allies:
Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) sent another letter to public housing residents about a virtual public hearing on November 18 at 1:30 pm about their new Statement of Policies that is 149 pages long and a new Statement of Corporate Policies is 65 pages long for Section 8 residents. MPHA still refuses to hold public meetings, even a virtual one to explain to public housing residents about these statements of policies, 2021 MTW Annual Plan or Section 18 Demolition & Disposition Lease they are forcing residents to sign.
When we received this letter, MPHA did not send the documents along with the letter and the majority of residents received this notice by the 5th of November. MPHA knows residents cannot access nor understand these documents due to language barriers, lack of access to computers, lack of internet, and disabilities. We also do not think Section 8 residents have any way to access these documents. We need MPHA to hold community meetings to explain these documents so we can submit comments. When MPHA wants to hold community meetings during the pandemic, they do. But, MPHA still refuses to hold community meetings for us to explain these documents and answer our questions.
Here are the links to their documents and announcement from their website:
https://mphaonline.org/annual-policy-update/
Please notice that MPHA removed from their website the public hearing for the 2021 MTW Annual Plan after we demanded that they hold community meetings to explain the plan and instead they posted a hearing on the Statement of Policies on the same date November 18, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/2021MTW-Public-Hearing-Notice.
MPHA, are you going to hold community meetings to explain the Statement of Policies, 2021 MTW Annual Plan and Section 18 Lease to answer many of our questions so we can submit comments verbally or are you going to continue to undermine our rights as public housing residents?
Again, if we were white homeowners, MPHA would not be allowed to behave this way by Mayor Frey, Minneapolis City Council, Governor Walz, Senator Tina Smith, Congress Ilhan Omar, AG Keith Ellison, Minneapolis County Commissioners, and the entire DFL House and State Representative of Minneapolis.
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