According to the Star Tribune, a 110-unit affordable-housing complex is on the boards in Minneapolis that will provide housing for the working poor and indigent households. Construction on the $35.8 million project is scheduled for September and aims to end the memory of a nearby tent city encampment of homeless occupied by large numbers of American Indians.
The developer is the Red Lake Band of Chippewa. Some members, as well as thousands of other Indians live in the area at the east end of the diverse, low-income Phillips neighborhood.
Over the last 25 years, the area has become known as a “cultural corridor” along E. Franklin Avenue, from the American Indian Center to Norway House. The area boasts badly needed housing, such as Anishinabe Wakiagun supportive housing and Many Rivers apartments, along with commerce, art and ethnic food spots.
Sam Strong, a Red Lake official, is pleased with the 110-unit “Mino-Bimaadiziwin” housing project on Cedar, to be erected on tribe-owned land, complete with a health clinic and near training and employment resources and Metro Transit’s Blue Line.“We seek to serve the population of this community, some of whom are Red Lakers,” Strong said. “It’s not just housing.”
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