JNS Blog Receives Detailed Communication About Unforgivable Forgivable Loan Mess In Holland Neighborhood, Northeast Minneapolis...

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blog post by John Hoff

If JNS blog doesn't write about tempests in a neighborhood teapot, who will? OK, possibly the Hawthorne Hawkman but watch this blogger put my teeth all over the story FIRST.

A reader in the Holland Neighborhood (Northeast Minneapolis) wrote me a detailed email about a situation involving Greater Metropolitan Housing Corporation and oversight by GMHC of monies belonging to the Holland Neighborhood. After speaking to this reader at length on the phone, I am simply...

Press Event In First Week Of September Will Highlight Bank Of America Home Donations To Disabled Veterans...

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A "press event" is reportedly in the planning stages right now, set to happen some time in the first week of September. Since June of last year, Bank of America has donated 19 properties to the City of Minneapolis through the Twin Cities Community Land Bank. In July, they donated their 20th home which will be rehabilitated by the Greater Metropolitan Housing Corporation (GMHC) to be a specially outfitted home for a disabled veteran.

That home is located at 39 NE 16th Ave. 

While the exact day of the press event has not been announced yet, it is likely that City Council President Barb Johnson will speak at the event. The house is in Diane Hofstede's ward and Hofstede will likely be at the event, too.