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The City's legal strategy [to not replace] demolished public housing
by Doug Mann, Pulse of the Twin Cities
Originally posted Sept. 24, 2003
In 1992 the NAACP and Legal Aid of Minneapolis filed a lawsuit, Hollman v Cisneros, on behalf of public housing tenants against the City of Minneapolis, the Metropolitan Council and the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for policies that concentrated poverty and people of color in certain neighborhoods.
By: Shannon Gibney, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Originally posted 10/8/2003
Latest glitch involves $7 million in contested HUD funding
If the fox is in the hen house, the farmer isn’t watching the brood. It’s a simple metaphor, but nevertheless it elegantly illustrates the current state of the Hollman/Heritage Park project — now...
NAACP supports City's motions in Court without endorsement by branch membership
Doug Mann, 17 October 2003
A press release dated October 15, 2003 says "Dennis Courtland Hayes, NAACP General Counsel, announced today that the Minneapolis Branch NAACP has withdrawn as a plaintiff in the housing case Hollman v. Martinez..." This is news to most of the branch membership, and possibly to the Court...
16 October 2003. Minneapolis NAACP Branch parliamentarian offers advice regarding Mr. Mann's coverage of NAACP's involvement with the Holman Consent Decree.
Re: Hollman Consent Decree
From: Doug Mann
Date: October 15, 2003
Re: Hollman Consent Decree, October 17, 2003 Court Hearing
From: Doug Mann
Date: October 14, 2003
Support from the NAACP could save the City of Mpls. millions of dollars at plaintiffs' expense
Will NAACP officers try to sell out Hollman plaintiffs?
By Doug Mann, 13 October 2003
After dumping a housing committee chair without good cause, blocking the formation of a housing committee, and refusing to call a special branch meeting regarding the Hollman Consent Decree (the settlement of a housing discrimination lawsuit, see stories below), the Minneapolis NAACP branch executive committee is sending its lawyer to Federal Court, empty-handed. A special branch meeting on October 8 made recommendations that must be considered by the executive committee, then revisited by the general membership. But the clock has already run out.
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