NRP Page - Residents Comments - Minneapolis Residents Comment On NRP

"The NRP helped us out big time. We bought our home, bank owned, last year and found out we had to replace the entire roof on our home (not just fix it as we had hoped) after we'd purchased it. The NRP made it possible for us to get our roof replaced at a more affordable rate, whereas otherwise I'm not sure what we'd do. This allowed a law-abiding family to live in a neighborhood and make this place a better place to live. I know we, in our neighborhood, are concerned about houses not being maintained or abandoned. Partly due to the NRP we've been able to at least keep one home in repair. "

"I have been participating with the SENA group and the NRP funds have done quite a bit to improve our neighborhoods. The money provides staff to pull neighbors and businesses together to work together on issues like graffiti. Providing someone to update the neighborhood is extremely important to a healthy neighborhood. Specific examples of NRP money helping are the home repair loans, extra windows on the Hiawatha building, crosswalk light on 28th street and Minnehaha creek, the SENA newsletter and providing funds to neighborhood businesses for anti graffiti materials. Without NRP I am pretty sure these things would not have been done."

"NRP has enabled Harrison neighbors to do so many things that improve our quality of life including: organizing to get soil remediation of superfund sites, bike trails, street lamps on Glenwood Ave., sale and razing of a gas station abandoned for 17 years, Undoing racism training and organizing for our neighbors-- and the list goes on and on. Currently we're working on benefits for neighbors in the Bassetts Creek Valley redevelopment, protesting another abandoned gas station on Glenwood, and keeping our neighbors in their homes in the face of the mortgage crisis-- and the list goes on and on.

The City could not have come close to these accomplishments on its own. Keep power in the neighborhoods with NRP. "

"As a Board Member of both LNDC and LNA in the Lyndale neighborhood I know firsthand what a difference NRP has made in the lives of the residents of the neighborhoods that I live in. The City has thrived under NRP funding, to end the program would surely bring detrimental consequences to neighborhoods and the city as a whole, with the impact greatest on poorer neighborhoods. "

Less than 1/10th of 1% is very much something that can be done to continue to create thriving neighborhoods within the city limits.

Please continue to fund the NRP phase II. It is a great program. We need it on the northside. Thank you.

Even if help is not available for my neighborhood and my taxes would increase, I'd support any programs that help Minneapolis become a better city. In the last 10 years I've seen the services decrease and the problems increase. We all need to be involved to make Minneapolis a liveable city!

We the People would like to have a say on the matters of our neighborhoods.

NRP is an superb program and needs our full support! How any city leader can even think about getting rid of NRP is hard to imagine.

Some of the Sheridan Neighborhood successes due to NRP include the renovated Ritz Theater, the Pierre Bottineau library, numerous business and home improvements, and community building through a new citizen participation organization.

NRP / HNIA Success Stories - 705 22nd Avenue NE, Solar Townhomes, ARTSERVE, The Hotdish Revolution, The Bill & Bonnie Daniels Firefighter Museum, The Northeast Community Barbecue (450 people attended), The Eastside Food Cooperative, Movies In The Park, Good Carma Volkswagen, The US Bank Project, The VOA Building, The Edison High School Media Room, The Jackson Square Park Iron Pour - all within 5 blocks of my residence. HNIA has been strategic and successful.

NRP involved people on the local level and empowers them to do what is best for the neighborhood. In this day when it is easier than ever to feel left out of the direct process and to feel nothing can be done on an individual or neighborhood level, NRP give citizens who know BEST what is going on in. their own neighborhood, a chance to have a direct say in neighborhood development.

I really like the neigborhood emphasis in the city. I like the Corcoran newspaper. It makes the city feel smaller & I feel there is an easy way to get together with neighbors to address any problems. I haven't used NRP loan programs, but appreciate they are there.

As a resident and a small business owner in Minneapolis, I strongly support funding for NRP into the future.

I love my neighborhood and all of the care and consideration that has been created, supported and (should be) sustained through the neighborhood associations. This asset is why I choose Minneapolis to call home, over other nearby cities/suburbs.

I've worked with the Camden area neighborhood for the past 4 years. NRP funding makes a huge difference to N. Minneapolis

I actually no longer live in the neighborhood and really didn't get involved with the associations until after I had moved I work at Jenny Lind Elementary and with the Neighborhood Associations of th camden area have been able to provide many new opportunities for the kids that I work with I am a true believer in neighborhood groups and would like to see these groups continue and that they have the funding in which to maintain an active vocal voice in our society.

We have received tremendous program support from LBNA through publicity, networking and donations through the business association. This support has increased our visitation at the Kroening Interpretive Center for special events, public programs and school programs.