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Article: Maple Grove nails a winning strategy; Maple Grove once had a reputation for resisting developers' proposals for affordable housing. No more. The Minnesota Housing Finance Agency is giving the city an award.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- November 18, 1999
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1/3 A few years ago it would have seemed almost impossible: Maple Grove, the Twin Cities suburb with the most-defiant image when it came to building affordable housing, getting an award for helping more such housing to get built.
But it'll happen on Friday, when the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency gives the city its 1999 award for excellence in affordable-housing initiatives. The city, stung in the past by criticism that it was an affluent suburb that equated lower-income housing with crime and minorities, is ecstatic. "I've just gotten calls from them every day wanting to know one thing or another about the event," said Jane Kennedy, an agency official.
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