Semantics

I read in the Star Tribune today that Clare Housing was going to be building new apartments and townhomes for people with HIV. In the article, it says "in a blighted parcel of northeast." which I took to mean possibly one of the warehouse looking spaces along Central Avenue. Later in the article it references the neighborhood association -- St. Anthony East. Huh, not where I thought it would be at all.

According to the Clare web site, it will be at 929 Third Avenue NE, which doesn't really seem like a blighted parcel to me. Houses over there are shooting well over $200K.

Now, just to be clear -- I'm insanely pro affordable housing. I think this will be a good thing, and frankly, that area will be way more hospitable to the residents than a truly blighted area of northeast.

My objection is that the newspaper reporter is just too suburban for their own good. City neighborhoods with old buildings are not automatically "blighted".