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Subsidy Foe Unseats Minneapolis Mayor

MINNEAPOLIS-R.T. Rybak puts affordable housing at top of his list, but shuns public development subsidies, such as public money to build a Target store Downtown as well as a new ballpark for the Twins.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on November 08, 2001

MINNEAPOLIS-R.T. Rybak, a former development director for the Minneapolis Downtown Council who rated affordable housing “our most importantcivic goal,” beat incumbent Mayor Sharon Sayles-Belton in the race. Rybak has generally spoken out against using public subsidies for development projects, including sports stadiums — and he reiterating that position despite a threat that the Minnesota Twinsbaseball team could be “contracted” by Major League Baseball if they do not build a new ballpark.

Rybak has been critical of Sayles-Belton’s Downtown economic development policies, including a large subsidy to build a Target store Downtown, and has been proposing his own solutions to the affordable housing crisis that faces the city.

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