Housing environment isnt always as easy to obtain as we first might imagine. The issue of Affordable Housing in cedar rapids is a perennial one, but this summer it came to a head with a controversy surrounding the Crestwood Ridge mixed Income Development proposed for some land along edgewood road. Here with me this morning to untangle some member of our city council. Thank you for joining us, scott. Scott my pleasure. Heather phoebe trepp who is the executive director of willis dady shelter. Phoebe thanks for having me. Heather welcome phoebe. And lynda waddington, a columnist for the gazette. Lynda good morning. Heather good morning, lynda. Thank you all so much for joining us. I thought we would begin very quickly with a little bit of an overview of how has shifted over the years. Many years ago when i was in school in chicago, i used to do a lot of volunteer work with what was at the time called the projects, cabrinigreen. That kind of concentrated, lowincome housing is a model that
Rapids from september through may and invite speakers to come and discuss issues that are important internationally and to the united nations. Leon tabak you told me you have an interesting personal background as well, right . Your origins in africa, is that correct . Chris dahle i was born in raised in south africa. I came here to go to college, but ive bee iowan. Leon tabak alrighty. Our second member of our panel is Lynda Waddington who is a columnist here with the gazette. Tell us a little bit more about your interests and role in the community here, lynda. Lynda w oh my gosh, i do quite a few Different Things within the community. I do a lot of public mentor some young writers. Im really enjoying living here in eastern iowa. Tonight i think were going to talk about the election and its aftermath, so i think im here tonight both as the woman, which ive kind of been a lot lately in this election cycle, and ive also covered politics here in iowa for over two decades, so a little bit
Earliest memories are heading down into the basement of Kenwood Elementary School and hearing that click, click, click as my ticket was punched before you were heading into the lunchroom. Nowadays things have changed. My daughters have ids with a magnetic strip on the back that allows for them to debit their accounts much like you would a debit card, and i can write a check for any as well as getting online and making deposits. The times, they sure are a changing. But one thing hasnt changed, and that is the need to deal with the problems that sometimes arise. Back in the days with those little lunch tickets, sometimes they would get lost or destroyed or sometimes even taken away. Nowadays you have a swipe their card and find out that their balance is zero. Todays panel will be talking about School Lunch Policy and disagreement s as to what should be done when that lunch accounts balance goes to zero. With me on todays panel is dr. Brandi janssen, clinical assistant professor at the un