'We Hope People Will Want This in Their Backyard'
Take tour of Kingfield affordable housing development.
Sometimes, when a builder proposed an affordable housing development, neighbors panic, because they don't know what the project will be like. Now, local group PORTICO is offering Southwest Minneapolis residents a chance to learn, with tours of their Nicollet Square development in Kingfield. "Our Executive Director often says that we want people to come who think of Cabrini Green when they hear 'affordable housing,'" PORTICO spokesperson Sarah Mollet told Patch, referring to a poorly-maintained, crime-ridden former housing project in Chicago. "We want to show them another way you can do affordable housing, that it can really be beautiful and healthy for the neighborhood." Now in its second year of operation, Nicollet Square offers homeless …
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