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Hollman Consent Decree
Hollman Consent Decree Hits the Fan
The City, Legal Aid, and the NAACP stuck to their game plan: Support motions in court that could save the City millions at Hollman plaintiff's expense.
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15, 2003 says "Dennis Courtland Hayes, NAACP General Counsel, announced today that the Minneapolis Branch NAACP has withdrawn as a plaintiff in the housing case Hollman v. Martinez..."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...
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...
====================Also see===========================
by Doug Mann, Pulse of the Twin Cities, May 19-25, 1999
by Doug Mann, pamphlet, 1999
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