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If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
![The City’s corporate designee admitted that
the City’s lack of licensing and inspection of MPHA properties “creates and it implies that
if you are poor, and you are accepting public housing, that it is okay to live in standards
that don’t even meet the City of Minneapolis minimum standards.” Doc. 156 at 15
(emphasis added). She even explained that the lack of licensing and inspection leads to
racial disparities given the demographic composition of MPHA residents. Id. at 9, 15.
When asked whether there would be a direct and measurable benefit to MPHA and
its residents if the City were to conduct systematic inspections, the City’s designee testified,
“Absolutely. Yes.” Id. at 59. As her earlier testimony explained:
“[t]here are additional services that are arrived [sic]. This is a
mitigating -- or supporting life and safety, and it’s also a way
for us to understand our housing stock and how it is utilized
and also the condition. Also, it’s an advocacy for the property
owner as well as the renter.”
Id. at 48–49. She explained that “[t]here is an inherent benefit to having a rental license”
for renters and property owners alike. Id. at 7. Licensing’s goal of ensuring a safe
environment for all residents applies “regardless of their living status as a renter or a
property owner.” Id. at 6–7. Licensing effectively results in the City and the property owner
entering an agreement that the property owner will abide by the “obligations and the
expectations of what it means to be a property owner in the City.” Id. at 7.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreihihyhuwtd5isqc3r3pi7jnhgpaisqkx4pvdo7sltq4elbshui4di)
![III.
The City Can Inspect Without Licensing.
The City previously claimed that it does not have the ability to hold MPHA
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accountable without a license. Id. at 9–11. But when asked how the City holds private
landlords accountable, the City’s designee testified, “We cite -- we cite the property owner
if there are issues of concerns, issuing a notice of correction and a deadline. And then
reinspection occurs to confirm if that issue was addressed or not.” Id. at 9.
Further, MPHA pays the City five percent of the aggregate shelter rent as payment
in lieu of taxes or “PILOT.” Doc. 157 at 58. And MPHA and the City have entered into a
Cooperation Agreement, which stated in relevant part:
[T]he Municipality without cost or charge to the Local
Authority or the tenants of such Project . . . shall . . . Furnish or
cause to be furnished to the Local Authority and the tenants of
such Project public services and facilities of the same character
and to the same extent as are furnished from time to time
without cost or charge to other dwellings and inhabitants in the
Municipality[.]
MPHA Add. 42.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreig6jr3xzwyvh5qyulc4txpjsc7sk6eh3fte4zkie3emg4hwx655em)
![66 S T A T . ] J^ PUBLIC LAW 4 1 4 - J U N E 27, 1952 ^
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such alien embarked for the United States or for foreign contiguous
territory;
(3) to the country in which he was born;
(4) to the country in which the place of his birth is situated at
the time he is ordered deported;
(5) to any country in which he resided prior to entering the
country from which he entered the United States;
(6) to the country which had sovereignty over the birthplace of
the alien at the time of his birth; or
(7) if deportation to any of the foregoing places or countries is
impracticable, inadvisable, or impossible, then to any country
which is willing to accept such alien into its territory.
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![ORDER
Therefore, based on the foregoing, and on all the files, records, and proceedings in this case, IT IS ORDERED THAT:
1. The Report and Recommendation [ECF No. 8] is ACCEPTED as described above;
3 The resolution of this issue in [REDACTED]’s favor makes it unnecessary to consider the Petition’s remaining grounds or Respondents’ remaining objection.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreic6gjd3qoq7qg3rk2jjrjovdwcbjhlpzthm5ezbftghuplvcgumd4)
