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7-25-1997 0: 1 1 AM FROM MSP REAL ESTATE. INC. 612 336 4565 P. 15 one project that was not as attractively de- phased out; HUD is being dismantled. Aik signed was well buffered.Third,there must State programs will feel the pinch of these lip be good management.All four complexes national activities and likely will be tar- were well maintained with competent on- geted themselves.The negative image irn- site management. This factor cannot be mediately conjured up by low-income overlooked, especially when consideririg, housing has no doubt contributed to these the importance of the integration of these decisions. Yet the need for "decent, safe, ' • complexes into their larger.communities , <f sand sanitary housing for every American" There is nothing new about these con ,, not diminished sincet goal was ar- elusions,and the same criteria apply to the ""'dculated in the Housing ktt of 1948.The successful development of market-rent irony is that now that low-income housing housing as well.What is new is that these is being well executed,the question has be- standards are now being achieved for low- come whether or not it will continue to be income and very low-income housing and built at all.perhaps the greater question is A that the result serves well todispel the low- whether or not the truth about low-income income housing stereotype. housing can make a difference in either the * The shift in the national political tem- reactions of its potential neighbors or in the • perament brings high irony to this discus- decisions made about its future. • sion.Section 8 housing programs are being • • • • • • 411 • MaRous. Low-Inco ma Hot Leine"in(S,r.