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Article 2 of 15, Article ID: 0004170099
Published on April 17, 2000, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
TENANTS TURN UP HEAT ON HOUSING ISSUES 1ST LANDLORD SINGLED OUT SAYS FIXES IN PROGRESS

Fed up by what they say is inattention to upkeep and needs of tenants, nearly 30 activists gathered on Payne Avenue on St. Paul's East Side recently to complain about landlords and rundown properties.Calling the event an ``eat-in'' or ``sit-out,'' the group sat in folding chairs, ate pizza and complained about East Side landlord Keith Pederson.They gathered Thursday on the sidewalk in front of 882 Payne Ave., an office/maintenance shop Pederson owns. No one was in the office at the time. Pederso

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Article 3 of 15, Article ID: 0002040354
Published on February 6, 2000, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
CITY BRIEFING CITYWIDE

Community drive seeks supplies for homeless: Medical and personal hygiene supplies and socks will be collected beginning next Sunday in the sixth annual ``Caring Hearts for Homeless'' drive.Medical items will be donated to the Ramsey County Health Care for Homeless Clinic, and personal items will go to Listening House in St. Paul. Items may be dropped off at St. Joseph's Hospital in downtown St. Paul or St. John's Hospital in Maplewood.For more information, contact Karen Shannon at (651)

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Article 4 of 15, Article ID: 9908070288
Published on August 8, 1999, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
ST. PAUL BRIEFING

CitywideTenants Union to hold `Summer Bash':The St. Paul Tenants Union will host its second annual ``Summer Bash'' Saturday to focus attention on the need for affordable housing. The event will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. at El Rio Vista Park, 179 Robie St., on the city's West Side.The event will include a free barbecue, with donations from Catholic Charities, Breadsmith, City Meat Market and the Malt Shop. Entertainment will include LeRoy Smokes Big Band and traditional Hmong dancers from the West

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Article 5 of 15, Article ID: 9903240504
Published on March 25, 1999, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
COUNCIL PASSES ST. PAUL HOUSING PLAN//CRITICS CALL IT INADEQUATE FOR LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS

The St. Paul City Council on Wednesday adopted a comprehensive housing plan that pays increased attention to the need for more affordable housing in the city but doesn't go far enough for many low-income housing advocates.As more than 30 affordable housing supporters watched intently, council members discussed Mayor Norm Coleman's proposals and several alternate plans of their own. The council, after considering nearly 20 changes to the original draft, passed the final plan 6-0.City planners exp Complete Article, 1132 words ( )

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Article 6 of 15, Article ID: 9903100420
Published on March 11, 1999, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
REVISIONS FOR ST. PAUL'S HOUSING PLAN ARE OFFERED//TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS HOPING TO AUGMENT LOW-INCOME UNITS

Efforts to build more housing in St. Paul, especially for people making modest wages, was given a push Wednesday by two St. Paul City Council members who laid out their 14-point plan.Council Members Chris Coleman and Kathy Lantry announced the plan, which they want the full council to consider as part of the city's 10-year comprehensive housing plan. The council likely will vote on the housing plan and the recommended changes by the end of the month.``This (14- point) plan is so reasonable,'' Lan

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Article 7 of 15, Article ID: 9902120449
Published on February 14, 1999, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
HOMEWARD BOUND//IN A TIGHT HOUSING MARKET, LOW-INCOME FAMILIES FACE A MULTITUDE OF OBSTACLES IN FINDING A HOME. AFTER FIVE YEARS FOCUSING ON DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AND JOB CREATION THROUGHOUT THE CITY, ST. PAUL MAYOR NORM COLEMAN HAS MOVED HOUSING NEAR THE TOP OF HIS LIST OF PRIORITIES. THE HOUSING DECISIONS ST. PAUL MAKES IN THE COMING MONTHS WILL BE CRUCIAL TO WHETHER THE CITY GROWS, WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE, WHO WILL LIVE HERE AND WHERE THEY WILL LIVE. IN TURN, THOSE DECISIONS WILL AFFECT THE GROWTH AND FUTURE HEALTH OF SURROUNDING SUBURBS. MUCH OF THE DISCUSSION IN ST. PAUL IS LIKELY TO FOCUS ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THE POOR AND LOWER MIDDLE CLASS. BUT CITY LEADERS KNOW THEY ALSO MUST RETAIN AND ATTRACT PEOPLE WITH AVERAGE TO ABOVE-AVERAGE INCOMES SO THE TAX BASE CAN GROW AND ST. PAUL CAN THRIVE.

Tracey Pollard remembers the presidential years of Ronald Reagan but not his policies. Ten years after Reagan left office, his decisions are haunting her.Pollard, 32, has been moving herself and her five children from friends to shelters since Dec. 14, the day the bank foreclosed on the three-bedroom house she had been renting on Woodbridge Street in the North End of St. Paul. Now, between attending school in the morning at the Ronald M. Hubbs Center for Lifelong Learning, working at McDonald's

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Article 8 of 15, Article ID: 9901200046
Published on January 20, 1999, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
SHELTER IN A STORM//THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS IS COMPOUNDING THE PROBLEMS OF 21 ST. PAUL APARTMENT TENANTS WHOSE LEASES ARE ENDING AT THE NEW LANDLORD'S INSISTENCE.

Yosenta Jackson has 11 days to pack up her three children and leave their East Side apartment. But she refuses to budge.Jackson has lived in her Omega Court apartment at 1224 Hazelwood St. in St. Paul for nine months. She works the night shift at Regions Hospital as a housekeeper to support her children. And she was stunned when she received a notice from the apartment complex's new owners on Dec. 30 that her lease would not be renewed and that she would have to leave by Jan. 31.But Jackson says

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Article 9 of 15, Article ID: 9812040444
Published on December 6, 1998, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
ST. PAUL BRIEFING CITYWIDE

Headwaters Fund aids five St. Paul groups:The Headwaters Fund, a community foundation that supports groups focused on social change in the seven- county metropolitan area, recently awarded grants totaling $103,000 to 17 groups - five of them in St. Paul - during its last grant-making cycle. The grants are used for general operating costs or special projects.The five St. Paul groups are:St. Paul Tenants Union, a membership-based organization that provides information, advocacy and organizi

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Article 10 of 15, Article ID: 9810070387
Published on October 8, 1998, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
COUNCIL HEARS ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING//ST. PAUL OFFICIALS WRESTLE WITH HEATED PUBLIC ISSUE

About 100 people filled the St. Paul City Council chambers Wednesday evening, some of them telling how tough it is to get an apartment at their income level. The council responded by asking for more time to put together its housing plan.ViolaRae Kassing, her voice breaking, told the council how her son, who makes $14 an hour, and his wife have been unable to find housing in St. Paul for themselves and their four children. They qualify for the subsidized housing program known as Section 8, but it

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Article 11 of 15, Article ID: 9810050296
Published on October 6, 1998, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
AFFORDABLE HOUSING VEXES CITY//ST. PAUL LEADERS DIVIDED ON HOW TO ADDRESS ISSUE

Mike Pye represents the biggest issue the St. Paul City Council has faced this year. It's the complicated problem of providing more housing in the city especially for hard-working guys like Pye who don't make a lot of money.``My budget is real tight,'' Pye said last week as he stood in the lobby of the Seventh Place Apartments. ``I moved here from Detroit 5 1/2 years ago, working two jobs, and I found this place. It wouldn't be that easy now. More people have moved here, and (in) downtown there

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Article 12 of 15, Article ID: 9809240466
Published on September 27, 1998, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
ST. PAUL BRIEFING

St. Paul community news and announcements should be submitted by Wednesday for Sunday publication to Lucy Quinlivan at the Pioneer Press, 345 Cedar St., St. Paul, Minn. 55101, or by e-mail at lquinlivan@pioneerpress.com or by fax at (651) 228-5500.CitywideWinter Carnival royalty applications sought:The St. Paul Winter Carnival is accepting applications for the 1999 Queen of Snows and Wind Princesses.As characters of the legend of the Winter Carnival, they will reign with King Boreas and other me

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Article 13 of 15, Article ID: 9808310089
Published on August 31, 1998, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
LOCAL ACTIVISTS PRESS AHEAD ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLANS

Mark Schuller intends to be blunt in his requests when he begins a series of meetings with City Council members.The St. Paul Tenants Union community organizer wants a commitment from the city that guarantees construction will begin by the end of 1999 on a thousand new low-income housing units for people who earn less than $11,000 a year.And he wants one-for-one replacement for every low-income unit St. Paul demolishes.The mission may seem ambitious, but Schuller thinks it's promising. He said th Complete Article, 1209 words ( )

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Article 14 of 15, Article ID: 9807160600
Published on July 17, 1998, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
SOME RESIDENTS CRITICIZING ST. PAUL REDEVELOPMENT PLAN//TENANTS SAY EVICTION, RELOCATION WILL PUT `FAMILIES OUT THE DOOR'

Evelyn Taflinger was born in the front bedroom of a house on Jefferson Avenue in St. Paul, a half block from the old Schmidt's brewery, where her father pasteurized and filled the trademark brown bottles for 30 years.She grew up and raised her own family in the West Seventh Street neighborhood - their moves to different homes measured by blocks, not miles.Today, at 52, she rents a house at 354 Duke St., works at the West 7th Street Bingo Hall and watches her grandchildren, who live two blocks aw

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Article 15 of 15, Article ID: 9806280031
Published on June 28, 1998, St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)
LACK OF HOUSING HAS RENTERS SCRAMBLING//MEETING HELD TO FIND AFFORDABLE SOLUTIONS

Angela Kimemia has five eviction notices on her record. She said her seasonal job as a Minneapolis public school bus driver makes it difficult to keep up monthly rent.In an extremely tight rental market, someone with Kimemia's background is easy for landlords to reject. Although she tries to stay optimistic, her current housing arrangements are temporary and she is in search of an apartment owner who will accept her application.``What do people like me do?'' Kimemia asked.That's a question she a

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