MPHA Plans to privatize over 730 public housing single family  homes

What is Section 18 Demolition & Disposition?

                **Section 18 is NOT the same as Section 8**

Section 18 of the 1937 United States Housing Act is a policy of the federal Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) which allows public housing authorities to demolish and redevelop their properties under certain conditions.

The specific terms used for this process are “Demolition and Disposition.” Demolition means the destruction of housing, simple enough but what does “Disposition” mean?

Disposition is the transfer of public housing properties to private developers and authorities. Disposition allows private developers and housing nonprofits to take ownership of public housing properties, allowing them to be converted into private, market-rate housing.

Section 18 in action means destroying and privatizing public housing and redeveloping the properties into new housing which is unaffordable to working,  low income and poor people.

How has it been used?

Many American cities have used Section 18 to privatize their public housing properties; San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Oklahoma City are just a few examples. In most cases, properties were redeveloped and handed over to private developers or non-profits. This resulted in the displacement of tenants and accelerated the processes of gentrification.

Section 18 has contributed to the loss of over 200,000 units of public housing in the United States as of 2009, and many thousands more in the decade since. At the same time, the affordable housing stock in American cities has declined over 60 percent since 2010 according to the Washington Post.

What does it mean for public housing in Minneapolis?

The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) has 736 “scattered-site” units in the city. These are mostly single-family homes and duplexes and are primarily located in North and South Minneapolis, Wards 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and some in Ward 1 in majority BIPOC neighborhoods and working-class Wards of Minneapolis. These homes provide security and assurance to tenants. They are the only universally affordable income based single-family and duplex public housing units remaining in the city.

Under the newly-passed 2040 Comprehensive Plan, high-density development is now permitted in all residential areas in the city; this has increased property speculation, as luxury developers seek to build new fourplex or triplex buildings in gentrifying neighborhoods; these neighborhoods contain hundreds of public housing scattered-site single family home. Mayor Jacob Frey and Council-Member Lisa Bender pushed the 2040 Plan using a PR company, coincidentally they are also the only two members of the City Government to sign a letter (written by MPHA) in support of MPHA’s Section 18 Plans. Mayor  Jacob Frey and City  Council President Lisa  Bender and MPHA are using Section 18 Disposition & Demolition  to gentrify the city and turn our remaining public housing into unaffordable housing developments.     

With Mayor Frey and Council Member Bender’s support MPHA is applying to HUD to use Section 18 for both Demolition and Disposition. In their February  2019 Board Packet MPHA states that they are planning on substantially rehabilitating or demolishing approximately five units under Section 18. This demolition plan is straightforward and devastating for public housing residents.

MPHA’s disposition plan is more complex but no less devastating. First MPHA will sell the 736 units for one dollar to a non-profit called Community Housing Resources (CHR). MPHA has been lying to residents about CHR. They claim that CHR is an “instrumentality” of MPHA meaning they have full control of this nonprofit. However, it is unclear whether it is legal for MPHA to sell their properties to a nonprofit wholly owned and controlled by MPHA. There are conflicting regulations and MPHA must only sell the properties to a nonprofit where they have a “controlling interest”. This means other interests, including private developers and investors will be on the nonprofit board deciding what happens to these scattered sites. What’s more, we already know that MPHA’s planned non-profit structure will only give them .001% control of the non-profit and 99.9% will be owned by private investors . MPHA is selling people’s homes for one dollar and then planning on flipping the homes into Market Rate homes. The profit margin on this move is massive as developers get these

proprieties for free. The private developers and investors on the nonprofit board stand to gain millions. This is the same way Dallas flipped their scattered sites into housing that low-income residents could not afford.   

If the MPHA’s Section 18 application is approved, thousands of low-income public housing families with children in Minneapolis will lose their housing. These tenants are disproportionately people of color, with the majority being Black and Black East African Immigrants; many are Muslims, refugees, and recent immigrants with limited knowledge of English, and a disproportionate number are elderly, disabled, or both.

New housing built on formerly MPHA-owned property would be controlled by investors, private developers, and corporations which would have virtually no oversight from city, state, or federal authorities. As has happened in many cities, private developers will convert these properties into expensive luxury housing, preventing former residents from returning to their communities.

What can be done about it?

On Wednesday, February 27th at 1pm the MPHA’s Board is meeting to approve the Section 18 application. Please attend this meeting and stand in solidarity with Public Housing Residents fighting on the frontlines to stop gentrification.

Not only the rich deserve to live in Minneapolis. Public housing is the only universally affordable housing in the city, and is a crucial defense against the forces of gentrification which threaten to displace thousands more poor and working people. Stand with public housing residents and tell the MPHA and City of Minneapolis: Keep public housing public! No to privatization! 

Contact your City Council Member, Mayor Frey, the MPHA, and HUD and tell them to stop this application and keep public housing public!

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Jacob Frey, Mayor of Minneapolis

                     jacob.frey@minneapolismn.gov / 612 673 2100

Greg Russ, Executive Director, Minneapolis Public Housing Authority

                     gruss@mplspha.org / 612 342 1400

Christopher Golden, Regional Coordinator, HUD

                     christopher.m.golden@hud.gov / 202 402 2413

Michele K. Smith, Director of HUD’s Minneapolis Field Office

                     michele.k.smith@hud.gov / 612 370 3146 or 202 903 9912

Christopher Golden, Regional Coordinator, HUD

                     christopher.m.golden@hud.gov / 202 402 2413

Your Minneapolis City Councilmember

Contact information can be found at

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/

Hold Them Accountable!

Your State Representative and State Senator

          Contact information can be found at leg.state.mn.us/leg/legdir

A PDF Copy of this fact sheet is available for download by clicking here.

Here are the details of a lawsuit against City of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Public Housing Authority for neglecting and failing to protect the rights of public housing family in a single-family home. This lawsuit was filed in Minnesota District Court on January 2019.

Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition has been following this case, and we support it. A press release was sent out August, 2018. During this period, as usual Minneapolis mainstream media refused to cover this case. In addition, Minneapolis mainstream media refused to cover Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition’s movement to stop the privatization, displacement and dismantling of Minneapolis Public Housing. It is time to hold Mayor Jacob Frey and MPHA accountable for neglecting and negatively impacting the lives of public housing residents. 
For more information about this case and if you live in single family home (Scattered Sites) contact Shoemaker & Shoemaker at 952-224-4610. 

Click the links to below for details on this case:

https://tinyurl.com/Marable-vs-MPLS-MPHA-PR

https://tinyurl.com/Marable-vs-MPLS-MPHA-Claims

https://tinyurl.com/Marable-v-MPLS-MPHA-Civil-File

Here is a letter to HUD from Mayor Jacob Frey and Council Member Lisa Bender, explicitly supporting MPHA’s plan to demolish and dispose of over 730 single-family homes (scattered sites). This support will change Minneapolis’s landscape dramatically, decreasing the amount of public housing in the city and bettering the city only for rich and white people. The change will modify Minneapolis’s demographics by displacing over 730 households, which encompasses, according to MPHA, over 5000 people majority Black, Black Immigrants/Muslims and families with children. Redevelopments under section 18 will cause an increase in rent prices for the city, and the resulting displacement will result in homelessness, disrupt communities, and change Minneapolis as we currently know it. Hold Jacob Fry and Council Member Lisa Bender accountable, as their leadership will displace thousands and entire communities, and “improve” Minneapolis only for the elite.

MPHA Director of Policy and External Affairs Jeff Horwich literally wrote the letter that Mayor Frey and CM Bender signed and sent to HUD. 
The below attachments are: 
Part 1 of 3: The letter signed by Mayor Frey and CM Bender.
Part 2 of 3: The letter written by Jeff Horwich that is verbatim the same text sent to HUD by Mayor Frey and CM Bender.
Part 3 of 3: The email from Jeff Horwich to Mayor Frey’s staff member asking Mayor Frey to sign-off on the letter.

On February 5th and 6th, Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition reported that MPHA hired Center for Multicultural Mediation & Restorative Justice (CMMRJ) to silence vulnerable residents of Elliot Twins in order to accept the RAD Program, and its displacement plans. DG&PHC also reported that this organization was fraudulent. Therefore, MPHA was also committing fraud by hiring CMMRJ. See this link for more information; https://www.facebook.com/…/a.529919710507…/1317831438382710/.

After this report, former associate of CMMRJ Barbara Raye contacted DG&PHC to set the record straight because CMMRJ claims they are part of Barb Raye’s organization. To learn more, see the below statement from Barbara Raye.

“I am writing to confirm that Abdi Ali and CMMRJ have NOTHING to with the Center.” Barb Raye

An ally made a data request under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act to MPHA and to the City of Minneapolis for the MOU (Memorandum Of Understanding) that the City of Minneapolis plans to sign with MPHA on March 19, 2019 to push the privatization and dismantling of public housing. As you can read from the email below with the attached emails in this document, Andrea Brennan, City of Minneapolis, CPED, Director of Housing and Policy Development sent a reply back stating that there is NO MOU despite the fact that is not the case. Then, Lisa Griebel, MPHA’s Legal Counsel, denied the request citing the wrong statute. Then, Lisa Griebel was called out, and she had to deliver the MOU. The City of Minneapolis and MPHA are hiding the MOU from the public. Andrea Brennan lied and Lisa Griebell covered up. This is a clear example of how our beloved City of Minneapolis is being led by people that are purposely hurting our community, lying, misleading, violating our code of conduct, and ethics. There needs to be an external investigation. For full details of this story see the email above from our ally to CM Cam Gordon, Andrea Brennan, Lisa Griebel, and the responses from Andrea Brennan and Lisa Gabriel lying and denying.

The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) has hired the Center for Multicultural Mediation and Restorative Justice (CMMR) to conduct ongoing meetings with residents at Elliot Twins including the meeting regarding the RAD General Information Notice on January 17, 2019 in order to silence vulnerable residents and seniors and push them to accept the RAD privatization and displacement plans. Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition (DG&PHC) has discovered that CMMR is a fraudulent organization.

After DG&PHC notified the public that MPHA is using CMMR to silence and lie to Elliot Twins residents, especially on January 17, 2019 during MPHA’s RAD meeting, activists in the East African community contacted our campaign and informed us that CMMR has been a problematic organization. As a result, DG&PHC looked up CMMR and found on their website that CMMR is claiming they are a program of the Center for Policy, Planning and Performance, and they are a tax exempt nonprofit.
See photo of CMMR’s website:

After an extensive search on Minnesota Secretary of State and IRS. Gov websites, DG&PHC found that Center for Policy, Planning and Performance does not exist, and CMMR indeed does not have Minnesota Secretary of State registration, license or Federal Tax Exempt , (EIN; Employment Identification Number). These license and registration are a must in order to operate as a charity/ non- profit in the State of Minnesota. Therefore, CMMR has no legal rights to operate under Minnesota State or Federal laws. But, CMMR is lying to the public claiming to be registered and licensed when they are not.
MPHA knows that CMMR is lying. The question is how can a federal agency like Minneapolis Public Housing Authority go to such extensive measures to hire a fraudulent organization to silence residents at Elliot Twins to displace them, and break Minnesota State and Federal laws. Therefore, MPHA is also committing fraud. The Mayor of Minneapolis, City Council and HUD are responsible for MPHA’s actions. It is time we hold our public officials and institution accountable for this corruption.
No matter how many illegal actions MPHA and City of Minneapolis commit, Elliot Twins are saying no to RAD, to displacement and privatization of public housing.

In February 2019,  the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) is planning to hire two Community Service Coordinators for the “Stable Homes Stable Schools” program run by MPHA, the City of Minneapolis, and Minneapolis Public Schools. See here for DG&PHC’s analysis of Stable Homes Stable Schools:https://www.dgphc.org/2018/06/11/mayor-freys-latest-pr-campaign-does-not-serve-homeless-youth/. MPHA’s Community Service Coordinators are supposed to assist Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) holders find and retain housing. See job description here:  https://www.facebook.com/mplspublichousing/posts/3067395509952949 .

They may help families with, “completing the appropriate paperwork to obtain and/or sustain stable housing, connect them to housing search assistance, coordinate financial, legal, or other supports to maintain housing, and work with landlords through and beyond the lease-up process”. The problem with HCV is not voucher holders’ inability to find or retain housing. It is the lack of landlords that accept HCV, fueled by systemic racism and the ongoing gentrification of Minneapolis.  The Landlords and developers won a lawsuit against the City’s Section 8 compliance, and they don’t have to accept Section 8 Vouchers.

http://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-landlords-push-back-against-section-8-compliance-rule/482120731/

There is a massive waitlist for Section 8 (HCV) vouchers in Minneapolis and virtually no landlords are  willing to accept voucher holders. Even if people are accepted, landlords frequently raise rents and displace residents making vouchers extremely unstable. Or, landlords can stop accepting Section 8 at any time while  residents are living in the units, and they are given short notice to move out. This is a deliberate act to gentrify Minneapolis as families of color with Section 8 vouchers are being pushed out. Here is a story of a woman who  has been displaced with Section 8 Voucher, and she can’t find housing in Minneapolis and in the suburbs.

Sahrooni’s Story About the Section 8 System

These jobs announcements  are nothing more than a PR stunt whereby MPHA can claim to be, “doing everything they can” while simultaneously decreasing Minneapolis’ existing Public Housing through privatization and pushing families out of Minneapolis and forcing them  to accept vouchers that don’t work. This is another false solution from MPHA and the City of Minneapolis in an attempt to fix their public image as they dismantle public housing and displace low-income Black and Brown residents out of Minneapolis.         

Read Greg Russ’s testimony to congress before he became the Executive Director of MPHA, where he emphasizes the use of programs like RAD and MTW, and how important it is in his view to privatize public housing and prioritize corporate interests. According to U.S. GAO report, RAD caused evictions and high rents which led to displacement around the nation.

Gregg Russ was hired late 2016 by the City of Minneapolis led by then Mayor Betsy Hodges, Council Member Jacob Frey, Lisa Bender, and Lisa Goodman to dismantle public housing. Council Member Cano and Gordon voted for Russ even though they said they were our allies. It was unanimous vote.Then on December 7, 2018, Council Member Abdi Warsame and Andrea Jenkins passed a resolution that approved RAD, the dismantling of public housing and displacement along with the 2040 Comp. Plan. All of the council members knew Russ’s record of dismantling public housing nationally which is why he was hired.. 
https://tinyurl.com/Russ-Testimony-Congress

https://www.cctvcambridge.org/sites/default/files/hhrg-114-ba04-wstate-gruss-20160512_0.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2BYXUa4duetBAcr5DiHAcwFah7masigY3G2SMK8hvlCzDA7oxeaeo3WL4

On Monday January 28^th, the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA) released  a Community Update. This update rewrites history and co-opts resident organizing efforts. The first item in the update celebrates the completion of weatherization at Glendale Townhomes in partnership with Sustainable Resources Center (SRC) and CenterPoint Energy. The picture for this section features Jeff Horwich and partners holding signs and smiling in front of Glendale Townhomes. The photo in their update, and MPHA misrepresents the history of the weatherization project at Glendale. MPHA claims to have completed this weatherization project in only one year. But the truth is that City Council Member Kevin Reich and Sustainable Resources Center, http://www.src-mn.org approached Glendale residents about weatherizing their homes in February 2016 when residents’ complaints about the lack of heat became public. SRC’s offer came after 6 years of residents organizing for better heat since MPHA took over control of heat in 2010. Yet, MPHA blocked SRC from weatherizing Glendale homes (for free!) for over a year and a half.

MPHA was intentionally making Glendale townhomes dangerously cold  in a process of disinvestment and neglect so they can demolish Glendale. The goal of this process was to make Glendale unlivable so there was no choice but to demolish it. This is a process used to displace Black and Brown residents to make way for luxury condos. Resident leaders from DG&PHC first organized to defeat RAD application in 2015 that would have demolished Glendale. Then DG&PHC along with allies organized, lobbied, and protested to get MPHA to accept SRC’s proposal for free weatherization at Glendale. MPHA finally did in October 2017, and now the project is complete. MPHA is taking all the credit for residents organizing and rewriting the story of their own neglect in a horrific PR stunt. MPHA will stop at nothing to displace low-income Black and Brown residents from Minneapolis and will try to paint themselves as the heroes the whole time. This is a co-option of resident organizing and a gross display of white supremacy. Here is a link of a statement by released DG&PHC  in 2017 that outlines the history of residents organizing to bring back heat to Glendale; https://tinyurl.com/Weatherization-by-SRC. And, here is a scathing letter from then Representative Karen Clark to MPHA about their neglect to provide heat in Glendale;  http://tinyurl.com/Rep-Clark-to-MPHA-Glendale. Even though MPHA was violation of State, City and Federal laws, none of our elected officials held them accountable.  

The second item in MPHA’s update is an update on the RAD application at Elliot Twins. MPHA has laid out all their lies in this piece. First, they claim Elliot Twins need extensive repairs, this is not true.  Elliot Twins are in excellent shape.  They went through massive renovation in 2006 to 2008 and again in 2014, MPHA spent $1.24 million dollars on elevator modernization. In addition, MPHA has spent millions of dollars in repairs in the last ten years at Elliot Twins. Second, MPHA claims RAD will allow them to “work with partners to raise money” for repairs. This is a gross misrepresentation of the RAD program. The RAD program will result in MPHA selling the Elliot Twins to private investors, not “raising money” with them. Third, MPHA claims to have been sitting down with residents to collaborate and to make sure they understand their rights. This is a lie. DG&PHC and other resident organizers have been the ones communicating with residents about their rights. MPHA also completely misrepresented the reality of RAD at their most recent meeting with residents. MPHA would not let seniors and disabled residents sit down. They took way their chairs. MPHA harassed and bullied public housing residents and youth organizers, kicking them out of the meeting and encouraging white residents to harass them. MPHA also called the police on Black residents. This is horrific and could have been deadly for Black residents.  MPHA hired the Center for Multicultural Mediation . (https://sites.google.com/site/multiculturalmediation/)  to lie to residents in order to forcefully accept displacement through RAD conversions. This group was suppose to conduct cultural mediation which did not work because they were silencing residents for MPHA. MPHA  isolated residents and used these cultural “mediators” in an attempt to manipulate them into accepting RAD. Residents told MPHA they never approved RAD and they don’t approve of this meeting. Residents saw through MPHA’s tactics and walked out. This meeting exposed how abusive MPHA’s leadership is and how elders/seniors, vulnerable residents are mistreated and taken advantage of.

Here is a photo of Jeff Horwich, MPHA Director of Policy &  External Affairs, physically pushing allies and residents @ Elliot Twins’s public meeting  on Jan. 17.2019 when residents rejected RAD and walked out.

In this update MPHA is attempting to revise history. It is reminiscent of the way the Trump administration constantly revises facts to take credit and appear in control. MPHA is losing control and is publicly, blatantly lying in a desperate attempt to regain control and complete their agenda of privatization, displacement, and gentrification. But their lies are being exposed.  How long will the City of Minneapolis and HUD the ignore this crisis, abusive and racist behaviour of MPHA leadership Greg Russ, Jeff Horwich and MPHA Commissioners? If public housing residents were majority white, the City of Minneapolis would have stopped MPHA a long time ago from displacing and abusing us. We will not stop fighting to keep public housing public, to protect our homes, community and our human rights.

Since Fall 2018, MPHA staff led by Jeff Horwich, Director of Policy & External Affairs has been setting up tables to chat with residents in the community room at Elliot Twins, in order to misinform residents to accept displacement through RAD. During one of these meetings, an MPHA employee told an elderly Elliot Twins resident that MPHA is not renting out vacant apartments in Elliot Twins anymore to make their planned renovations easier. The Elliot Twins are in excellent shape, they do not need these renovations because they have been renovated and yet MPHA is leaving homes empty while Minneapolis faces a massive housing crisis, in the middle of winter when it is deadly for people to be without a home. By keeping units vacant MPHA is manipulating HUD laws in order to sell units to private investors following RAD conversion. HUD regulations limit the number of units that may be “lost” during a RAD conversion to no more than five percent of units. However, units are excluded from this protection if they have been vacant for 24 months before the RAD Application is submitted (p.21:http://nhlp.org/files/RAD%20Advocacy%20Guide%202.0%20FINAL%20with%20Appendix.pdf).

 If units have been vacant for two years, the Housing Authority is under no federal obligation to keep them affordable. MPHA admitted they are keeping units empty. These empty units do not have to be preserved as affordable during the RAD conversion that MPHA is moving forward with despite residents saying no to RAD and MPHA violating RAD HUD guidelines and process. The new private owners of Elliot Twins will be able to rent these homes as luxury apartments and profit off the RAD conversion and displacement of vulnerable elders. How long has MPHA sat on vacant units at Elliot Twins while Minneapolis faces a massive housing crisis? How long has MPHA ignored its duty to house people while playing a long game to maximize profit and privatization for their investors?

Even worse, MPHA staff told an elder that they are, “Not renting Elliot Twins any longer because they are waiting for seniors to die or move out” so apartments will be vacant and more easily “renovated” (privatized and sold at market rate). Once MPHA has vacant units, they can rent them to wealthier renters of a higher income who will be majority white.  Following the RAD conversion, the new private owners of Elliot Twins are only required by HUD to select an “eligible family” for any vacancies. An “eligible family” under HUD’s guidelines is a family that falls into their categories of, “low-income” or “very low-income” (p.28:http://nhlp.org/files/RAD%20Advocacy%20Guide%202.0%20FINAL%20with%20Appendix.pdf).  “Low-income” is defined as 80% Area Median Income (AMI) and “very low income” is defined as 50% AMI (p.B-22:https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/DOC_10815.PDF). Most public housing residents are between 0 to 21% AMI. See this link to explain AMI and chart that shows how much public housing residents make compared to the rest of population in Minneapolis  ,https://www.dgphc.org/2018/05/10/ami-housing-deeply-unaffordable-for-low-income-families-part-2.

Once the units at Elliot Twins become vacant, they will no longer be affordable for those who fall under 21% AMI. Elliot Twins will no longer be public housing after the RAD conversion, so it will not be accessible to the low-income original residents who were pushed out or for any of over 17 thousands low- income residents that are in waiting list of over 7 years to get housing in Minneapolis. As a result, the housing crisis will continue to grow. 

While it may be shocking that MPHA would tell Elders they’re “waiting for them to die”, it comes as no surprise to residents that they would treat Elders in this way.  At the recent eviction  meeting  https://www.facebook.com/events/286106475383305 at  Elliot Twins on January 17, 2019 during Federal Government and HUD shutdown,  MPHA hired the Center for Multicultural Mediation (https://sites.google.com/site/multiculturalmediation/)  to lie to residents in order to forcefully accept displacement through RAD conversions. On their website, the group claims that one of the main reasons to hire them is to “maintain control over the outcome of the dispute.” Clearly, MPHA had no intention to hear residents’ concerns, they just wanted to control the outcome of the meeting to push RAD through a manipulated process called GIN (General Information Notice) by HUD which MPHA decided to hold during HUD Shutdown; https://www.dgphc.org/2019/01/11/mpha-is-moving-forward-to-evict-residents-from-elliot-twins-during-government-shutdown/. This meeting was a disaster for MPHA. It exposed how abusive MPHA’s leadership is and how elders/seniors, vulnerable residents are mistreated and taken advantage of. MPHA took nearly all the chairs out of the community room, so Elders and people with disabilities had nowhere to sit. MPHA and their mediators had no presentation planned so they could target, isolate and lie to residents individually to push them to accept RAD. MPHA and their mediators refused to answer questions in front of the group for the sake of transparency, which meant that residents and allies were not allowed to join together to make their voices heard. Public housing residents and Allies – specifically allies of color – were harassed by MPHA staff and private security from the start, and eventually by police, despite having been invited by residents. People were told to turn off their cameras, and a Channel 9 news crew was turned away from the event because MPHA wanted to keep their abuse of Elders and other vulnerable residents a secret. Elders were standing for far too long and the disorganization and dramatic rearranging of their community room, as well as MPHA calling the police on residents, created massive amounts of stress for Elders.  MPHA’s treatment of Elders is despicable, and video of it is on DGPHC’s events page. This is why we need to unite to stop their privatization plans and keep public housing public. MPHA leadership from Commissioners to Greg Russ, Jeff Horwich and the rest of the MPHA are not safe to the well-being of Elliot Twins and to the rest of the public housing residents. Therefore, they must all resign. They are dangerous to our most vulnerable population of our city and an embarrassment to the City of Minneapolis!  Here is a link to contact them; https://www.dgphc.org/hold-them-accountable/.

PDF copy of this statement here: https://www.dgphc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MPHA-Leadership-Must-Resign3071.pdf