Kenneth Lydell Muhammad El, Salisbury, N.C.
♦ QUESTIONS FOR CANDIDATES OF CITY COUNCIL
1. If elected, what resolutions and actions would you propose to ensure that members of the minority community, especially those in the highest concentration of the demographics, would receive access to increased minority contracting and small business development opportunities from the City’s administration?
2. If elected, how would you ensure that members of the minority community, especially, Blacks, would benefit from the 700-800 vacant houses in the City’s inventory? Would you be willing to push a resolution, allowing minorities to purchase or obtain housing from this inventory, at nominal or low-costs, increasing homeownership opportunities within the minority communities?
3. The 2014 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Report demonstrates numerous glaring practices of discrimination, redlining, gentrification, unfair banking practices, and other admissions of unfair practices by the City and its affiliates. What resolutions, and actions would you propose that would ensure the minority community that the City is ready to engage members of the minority communities in a fair and equitable, distribution of resources?
