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CITYLIMITSCOMMUNITY HOUSING NEWSJUNE I JULY 1978 VOL. 3 NO.5

UPHILL BATTLE TO BRAKE

THE SLIDE OF 590 P ARKSIDE-



Is this another New York City building down thedrain? Not to the tenants and others who are familiarwith 590 Parkside. It is certainly no paradise, but to

them it is a prime building to be saved. Why?

"It's a beautiful building," Rev. John Powis, whohas known the building for years, said, referring to itsstructural soundness and potential. "And it ' s in asection where there is no such thing as a vacant house or

building."All the other buildings on the block, which straddles

Crown Heights and Flatbush, are occupied and properlymaintained. Across the street from 590 is an elementaryschool. One block away there are some beautiful private

homes and the subway; two blocks away are busycommercial streets.

Since neighborhood deterioration often begins with

one bad building, rescuing 590 would contain the blightand stabilize the block, Powis and others argue. Lettingthe building continue to slide could doom the area as theinfection spreads.

"It is an absolute disgrace for the Department of RealEstate (which has managed the building for two years)

and HPD (Department of Housing Preservation andDevelopment) that for so many years it has seen an

almost perfect building on a perfect block and not doneanything," Powis said.

Mrs. Kelly and other tenants at 590 say they havefared no better under two years of city managementthan they did during the last years when the buildingwas privately owned. Many of the units are in terribleshape, they say, and some tenants have moved without

permission into more livable apartments in the building.A number of residents are putting their ren t into a bank

account from which they intend to finish paying for thefuel they bought themselves last winter. Some tenants

James Kelly pointing to where there was a gaping hole in his roof all

winter. He and two other tenants repaired i t themselves.

ted their building because the city estimated that rehabilitation would cost $8,OOO-a-unit or $3,OOO-a-unitmore than the maximum allowed under the program.To complicate matters, while Powis, PLGNA and

others were trying to get HPD to waive the regulation



Playing ball in the entrance to S90 Parkside Ave.



SIMPLE TENANT MANAGEMENT PLAN

DEVISED FOR CITY-OWNED PARCELSby Susan Baldwin

One month after the city acquired the first group of

some 25,000 buildings expected to be taken in tax foreclosure this year, community housing groups have won

an agreement to test a simple management plan that

gives major responsibility to the tenants.

"A few months ago, I don't think anyone who has

been working on this In Rem problem would havethought that we would be getting so much coopera

tion, " said Adina Johnson, Manhattan borough

director of Operation Open City and a member of the In

Rem Task Force, a coalition of community housing

activists and elected officials.

The city expects to be ready to sign interim manage

ment agreements with some tenant and community

groups by mid-July, according to Charles Raymond,

deputy commissioner for property management in the

Department of Housing Preservation and Development(HPD). HPD, which takes over responsibility for city

owned multiple dwellings from the Department of

General Services (GSD) on September I, is working withGSD during the transition period.

"We have to develop a mechanism . .. to halt

the potential In Rems . .We

have to go to thebanks to get loans to keep this 'redlining' fromhappening . . . "

plained. "We also will allow [Article] 7A administrators

to continue who are affiliated with community law

services. "Soskin and Raymond have submitted a draft interim

lease agreement to City Corporation Counsel Alan

Schwartz, who is expected to rule on it by early July.

Although details of the agreement are not yet public, it

is likely that qualified tenant or community groups

would manage the buildings with much the same

authori ty as that exercised by Article 7A administrators.Such groups would have power to rent apartments,

collect rents, and, under a waiver from the Corporation

Counsel, institute dispossess proceedings for non-payment of rent. They would disburse funds from rental

income to maIntain the buildings, purchase fuel and

utility service, and make repairs according to a schedule

negotiated with the tenants and the city. The groups

would account to the city for income and expenses,

probably in more detail and with greater frequency than

is required of Article 7A administrators by the Housing

Court.While acknowledging the need for the interim tenant

management, Soskin worried about the future. "We

have to develop a mechanism . . . to halt the potential In

Rems . . . We have to go to the banks to get loans to keep

this 'redlining' from happening," he added.Soskin reported that a special task force of high-level

city officials is going to work to keep more buildings



example, from community-management-type rehabilitation.

"The tenants really should do the rent restructuring,"J o h n ~ o n asserted. The city has agreed, she reported, topermit a tenant managing agent to request a rentrestructure.

HThe major problem that is being avoided is

ownership of these parcels . . . People have to

realize that the city has taken a holiday in tha.t

it is willing to deal with management but no t

with ownership. "

Asked to explain financial plans for tenant management of the In Rem buildings, Soskin said, "Most of thetenants have not asked for money to manage the buildings . . . Most of them seem to prefer getting control of

the buildings 'as is,' with the idea of deciding later onabout future plans."

Johnson said that Soskin's main concern in negotiating with tenant groups over interim agreements 'hasbeen to insure their compliance with three requirements:

1) ~ h a t they maintain liability insurance for the properties; 2) that they attend a management course at

HPD's division of evaluation and compliance; and 3)

that they maintain proper books, records, charts, andaccounts.

Meanwhile, Soskin revealed that 50 In Rem buildingsaround the city, selected for their strategic importanceto the blocks where they are located, will receive a$2,5OO-per-unit rehabilitation immediately under GSD

supervision. Some $9 million is being reserved to beefup managerial staff.

Soskin predicted that GSD would continue to provideservice to many of the In Rem buildings even after the

that only has two people living in it," Soskin went on,"we're going to ask the people to move out , because we

cannot justify spending the money to repair a largenumber of vacant apartments." He stressed that MayorKoch and HPD were also committed to this policy.

"What the city has to understand," Johnson countered, "is that it is not taking over abandoned buildings.There are people living in these structures who haveexperienced all the horrors that go along with living inconditions where the landlord has taken everything hecan get and then has gotten out.

"The city needs to distinguish between abandonedand tenant-run buildings. We hope Mr. Soskin understands this," Johnson said. "Let's see whether he trustsus enough."

Efforts are being made to insure that tenant groupswill have the know-how to keep the buildings alive. TheIn Rem Task Force is putting together a tenant manualdetailing city programs available to groups for savingtheir buildings.

Legal self-help and technical assistance must also beforthcoming, according to Johnson. "The time hascome to prepare groups to run their own buildings sothat they can come to the city with some strength indiscussing their problems," she said.

I f the interim management agreements proposed toGSD and HPD for the In Rem buildings work out, thevolume of buildings able to enter the direct salesprogram may vastly increase, along lines first proposedby attorney McGaughey last March.

He recommended to newly appointed HPD Commissioner Nathan Leventhal that direct sales should strivefor simplicity and volume. At that time, both Leventhaland William Smith, direct sales program director,



THE PEOPLE'S FIREHOUSE:

HOW TO SAYNO AND PREVAIL

by Fred Ringler andRon Webster

On June 17 at 10 a.m. fire sirens pierced the air in the

Northside section of Brooklyn, signalling the joyous

protection of their homes from fire.The battle began in July, 1975, when the New York



500 angry people met at the quarters of the company

and blocked the fire engine and firemen inside the fire

house in an attempt to put pressure on the city to keepthe company open. The building and the men were heldhostage for one day at which time our elected officials

convinced the group to leave the premises with an agreement from the city that the firehouse would be leftintact for five days. This would give residents an oppor

tunity to institute legal proceedings to stop the closing.

Five days later the city got two judges to lift the temporary restraining order and on Thanksgiving night,Nov. 27, at 11 p.m. the city attempted to remove the

engine from its quarters. Once again the city dealt in

bad faith!

Residents were alerted when some unknown soul rangthe air raid siren on the roof of Engine Co. 212 as asignal. Five hundred outraged Northside citizens assem

bled back at the quarters and again blocked the engine.

It then held the truck and the firehouse hostage for 16

months. This was the People's Firehouse battle.During the period of occupation, residents and organ

izers ran the quarters of 212 as a "People's Firehouse,"

responding to fires, collecting data, doing research onFire Department decisions, monitoring fire hydrants

and ERS Voice Contact Fire Alarm boxes and running

the facility as a community service center . All of thiswas done to convince the city that it had made a mistakein closing the company. Community residents commit

ted themselves to sleeping and living in the firehouse to

guard the engine from being taken by the city.

Finally on March 17, 1977, the community agreed to

an offer made by the NYFD to reopen the quarters ofEngine Co. 212 as a Utility Unit, composed of an

engine, full complement of men and a foam unit. ThisUtility Unit was to respond to only 34 first-due boxes in

Northside as its major responsibility. Community resi

dents reluctantly accepted the proposal but saw it as thebeginning of the full restoration of 212.

As we began to monitor the operation of Utility Unit1, it became clear that it was not serving the needs of thecommunity, was not responding to fires and sat idlewhile fires raged throughout the community. It was now

time to begin the fight once again. Pressure was put on

the Fire Department and the Mayor's office for the fullrestoration of 212. Finally on June 17, 1978, thedemand was met and Engine Co. 212 was once again in

service protecting the Northside community. The battlewas finally won.

Atthe victory celebration, men, women and childrencried with joy as they were called up on stage to greet the

crowd. Mayor Koch and other elected officials were onhand along with about 1,000 community residents. The

subject on everyone's mind was where do we go from

here? What should the People's Firehouse do next? Theanswer seemed simple. We're going to continue monitoring our fire service, make sure that the city imposesno more cuts in our community and involve ourselves inhousing and the revitalization of the Northsidecommunity.

The People's Firehouse has a paid staff of sevenpersons plus some 100 volunteers. We are planning fireprevention seminars, including how to monitor fire

hydrants; we are printing fliers in four languages on

how to use voice contact alarm boxes; we are continuingto evaluate fire protection in the neighborhood; we areworking with the National Association of Neighbor

hoods on a national fire prevention task force.For more information or assistance in setting up ororganizing a fire service monitoring project call 384-

9344. 0



BREWING DISPU'IE WITH HUDMAY

COST ,CITY EXTRA SECTION 8by Susan Baldwin

Hopes for major housing rehabilitation through a

new five-year federal subsidy program may prove

worthless to most of the 12 city neighborhoods included

in a recent city application to HUD, as the city and

federal governments spar over responsibility for the first

year's allocation of funds.The city has submitted to the New York area office of

HUD applications to rehabilitate 6,500 housing units

with a Section 8 "substantial rehabilitation" subsidy tobe set aside under the Neighborhood Strategy Area

(NSA) program.This program, which calls for 20,000 rehabilitated

units nationwide in its first year allotment, was an

nounced last Janaury. The city's requests would be

added to the 2,600-unit Section 8 allotment already

allocated this year under the Community Development

(CD) block grant.

NSA, according to HUD, is intended to give localgovernments "a central role in deciding upon the allocation of housing subsidies" in a "concentrated, coordinated plan of neighborhood revitalization and housingrehabilitation."

With applications due to be forwarded by HUD's

New York office to Washington at the beginning of

August, Ralph Lapadula, HUD's area director of

housing production, complained that the city has failed

to inform its constituents of the program's limitations."A s far as I'm concerned, they should not have sub

mitted 12 applications," Lapadula said. Instead of

because we strongly believe that immediate action in thetarget areas now will serve to lessen the need for greater

federal subsidy in the future."HPD included the following neighborhoods in its

NSA applications: Bronx-Kingsbridge/Bedford Park,

The South Bronx Plan Area; Manhattan-Washington

Heights, Manhattan Valley, Hamilton Heights, Gate

way to Harlem Area; Brooklyn-Crown Heights, Flat

bush, Sunset Park, Bedford Stuyvesant, East NewYork; Queens-Far Rockaway.

I t is the applications' inclusion of 1,000 units in the

so-called "South Bronx Plan" area, at the direction of

the federal government, that particularly vexes both city

officials and neighborhood representatives.

Vicki Streitfeld, housing liaison for Manhattan

Borough President Andrew Stein,asked,"Theyhave the

South Bronx in the [NSA] plan? They have to be

kidding. As I understand it, they were supposed to pickneigborhoods that are not devastated."

Streitfeld's surprise reflects the city's resentment that

the federal government forced the city to channel the

rehabilitation element of their much -heralded

joint plans for the South Bronx through the NSA

program, in a nullification of its apparent commitment

to process the entire South Bronx redevelopment plan

on a separate track, and with funds not otherwise avail

able to the city.Meyer Fender, a Brooklyn representative of the City

Planning Department to Community Board 5, analyzed

the city-federal conflict this way.



TECHNICAL ASSISTANCEby Anne Hartwell

HEALTH INSURANCE

Employees (and their families) of ANHD member

organizations and CETA VI Groups are eligible for ournew health plan, which includes life insurance, hospitalization, Major Medical and dental coverage.

So far, 14 organizations have enrolled 185 people.The rates are $36.74-a-month for the employee or

$85.70-a-month for the entire family.We have found that among the 14 particIpating

groups, their existing fringe benefits budgets havecovered the cost of their own employees' insurance.More than half of the participating groups were alsoable to pick up the family insurance costs. For thoseemployees with families who had to contribute to the

plan, their paycheck deductions ranged from12

cents to$5.50 a week.

Here is what the medical plan includes.

• Life insurance - $10,000 term.• Accidental Death and Dismemberment - $10,000.• Basic Hospitalization - Blue Cross - semi-privateroom (includes four days of maternity hospital care).

• Major Medical - private duty nurses; extended

hospital confinement; doctor's office visit (other thanregular checkup); surgeon's fees; specialists; x-rays andlab fees; wheelchairs, crutches, etc.; prescription drugsand medicines; chiropractors; outpatient psychiatric

care (50 per cent of fee, no maximum per year, $20,000lifetime maximum).

• Dental - basic care including fillings, extractions,cleaning; fluoride and restoration and root canal,crowns, inlays and prosthodontics.

For the Major Medical, there is a $100 deductible peryear per individual. In the case of a family, there is asecond $100 deductible for a second claim. For threeclaims or more there is no additional deductible.

Major Medical will cover 80 per cent of the first$2,000 in bills and 100 per cent thereafter.

The dental program has a $25 deductible per person(lifetime) for basic care; it sets forth a schedule of

payment limits that includes$8

for a regular office visit;$12.50 for a single x-ray; $120 for single root canaltherapy; $114.25 for a plastic crown.

The life insurance, accident insurance and MajorMedical are provided by the Prudential Insurance Co.of America. The hospitalization is covered by BlueCross.

This comprehensive health plan was put togetherafter comparing coverage and benefits of about six

insurance carriers and analyzing what the participatinggroups could afford.One of the advantages of the plan is that it allows

patients to select their own doctors.



MEET SOME AMHD STAFF

Barbara Pacheco

Barbara Pacheco, who has a history of communityinvolvement that spans 13 years, sees her jobfunct ion as acting as a liaison between ANHD andthe Ceta VI groups.

"Essentially what I do is help monitor the

spending of ANHD's money," she explained,noting that another part of her job involves alerting groups as to what the Department of Employment may be looking for in their performance of

contract agreements.Visits to the eleven groups and one worksite in

the Bronx entail supervising plans and schedulesfor tenant organizing and training, pre-selection of

buildings for city housing programs as well aslooking into possibilities for open space development and urban gardens.

The field coordinators visit the groups on a

good. I am particularly excited by the groups'most recent plans to get involved with as much as240 to 600 units of rehabilitated housing."

Prior to working as administrative manager for

the core staff at ANHD, Pacheco did counselingand assistance work with teenage runaways andserved as a tenant organizer in Manhattan Valley.She holds a bachelor's degree from City Collegein the social sciences and a master's degree infamily and community life from Columbia Teachers' College. She and her four-and-a-half year-olddaughter, Cybele, live in Manhattan Valley.

Speaking about her future in community in

volvement, Pacheco concluded," I am veryinterested in women's rights and services, particularly in low income areas where they are virtuallynon-existent. I am working with a group of 15

neighborhood women right now developing aproposal for a women's storefront in ManhattanValley. D

Jose Garcia



COMPUTER PAYROLL PLAN SET

FOR COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT

by Bernard Cohen

Bookkeeping for the community management program should be greatly simplified soon when a newcomputerized payroll system takes over from the oldpractice of writing checks manually.

The computerized payroll, scheduled to begin in earlyJuly, is designed to spare the 14 neighborhood organi

zations in the community management program fromthe complex and time consuming process of computinghours, figuring taxes and writing checks.

Under the new system, the groups will provideChemical Bank with the names of their employes andthe number of hours worked. Chemical will computethe taxes, deduct them from earnings and issue checks.The bank will pay the taxes and also issue income taxstatements for each employee.

"The system looks like a beautiful system," saidGeorge Maldonado, controller of Los Sures in Brooklyn, one of the neighborhood-based organizatipns in theprogram.

Under the community management program, the citycontracts with community housing organizations tomanage city-owned buildings. Some 300 people areemployed by the groups and the number is expected togrow quickly with the addition of a rehabilitation com

ponent to the management contract.The transition to automatic payroll has been in the

planning for a year, during which time City ComptrollerHarrison Goldin released an audit that severely criticized

and it's wrong," s a i ~ one organization representativerecently. I t was only within the past year that a fiscaltraining manual was even available, another added.

Fredericks said he has been making an effort to meetwith the community organizations and work moreclosely with them to improve performance and contract

compliance.Aside from easing the accounting burden, Frederickssaid, the biggest advantage of the Chemical computer isthe security of a guaranteed weekly or bi-weekly payroll. "In the past there were problems with funding forpayroll," he said, referring to delays by the city indepositing quarterly checks. "That worry is gone."

The reason for the new security, Fredericks explained,is that city money to back the payroll will be drawn

automatically into Chemical's community managementaccount from a central pool of funds used by the city formany of its bills.

Each payday, the community organization will go toits local Chemical Bank branch and pick up the payroll.The checks can be cashed at any Chemical branch aswell as at the employee's own bank. Community organizations can put their non-community management

employees on the computer as long as the groupsdeposit their own funds into the payroll account."The groups are getting a lot of service and it's not

going to cost you anything," Fredericks said.



CONSUMER COOPERATIVE BANKby Bernard Cohen

Creation of a new bank that would provide majorfinancial and technical assistance to all kinds of

consumer cooperatives, including housing co-ops, isundergoing final consideration by Congress.

"This is one of the most important bills that Congresswill consider in the next 10 years" from the standpointof developing community-based enterprises, accordingto Shanti Fry, former manager of the Cambridge, Mass.food co-op and now with the federal agency, ACTION.

" I t is unlikely that another bill will go through with thisamount of funding," Fry said.

I f approved, the National Consumer CooperativeBank would stimulate creation and growth of housing,consumer goods, health, energy, food, credit and otherkinds of cooperatives that have experienced seriousdifficulty in the past obtaining conventional financing.

In addition to the bank, which would provide loans to

"credit-worthy" cooperatives at U.S. Treasury interestrates, the legislation would create a separate "Self HelpDevelopment Fund" administered by ACTION to lendmoney at below-market interest rates to low incomecooperatives and would set up a program of technical

assistance.The U.S. Senate is expected to debate the legislation

in mid-July. Opponents have agreed to limit debate onthe bill and proposed amendments and avoid a repeat of

the filibuster that recently blocked efforts to revise thelabor law. The Co-op Bank bill passed the House of

Representatives last year by a single vote.While there are many kinds of cooperatives, all share

"best efforts" to target bank loans to low incomegroups.

In addition, there is some disagreement over the definition of a low income cooperative. Some groups suchas the Cooperative League of the U.S.A. favor membership by at least "a majority" of low income families asthe definition so as not to encourage segregation of lowincome Americans in co-ops. Others, fearing that loansintended for low income groups will be diverted to moremiddle income areas, are pushing for a higher minimumof 80 per cent.

Ernie Eden, executive director of the National Association of Housing Cooperatives, acknowledged theuncertainty of the targeting but said, "Our Associationhas a lot of low income members. We're pushing forequal access to everybody."

The legislation would limit spending on housing to 30per cent of the loans, although some groups are askingthat rehabilitation-as opposed to new construction

be excluded from that limit.Eden said a wide variety of housing and related

activities would be eligible for loans or loan guaranteesincluding purchase "f a building, rehabilitation andinstallation of solar energy, insulation and other energysaving measures.

In the House-passed version (HR 2777) housing co-

ops would have to seek HUD financing before qualify-ing for a bank loan.Fry said opposition to the legislation has come from

those who generally oppose federal spending and from



..... ~ t $ i i . ~ ~ 1 : . ; : : : U R ~ A N H O ~ E S T E A D I N G . Twelve buildings in the South Bronx and Lower East Side will be rehabili tated in the next 16 months by thelow mcome residents of those neighborhoods under a "demonstration" sweat equity program using federal 312 loans. Title transfe r and loan

commitment l e t t e ~ s were signed June 22 at City Hall. Left to right : Roberto Nazario and Vernon Perkins of Interfaith Adopt-a-Building on

the Lower East Side and Deputy Mayor Ronay Menschel. Similar signing occurred for People's Development Corp . which will rehab the

buildings in the South Bronx.

Interim Leases continued

erty management at HPD. "Their heads are in the rightplace-they have a good attitude and approach, and Ithink we're going to have a good program," he predicted.

McGaughey hoped that community groups wouldjoin with the tenant organizations to seek interim

management contracts from the city.Referring to the management contract, he said,"Although there is no substantial overhead money,there is a management fee which would cover a couple

Tbe influx of In Rem Buildings to city ownersbip basbrougbt witb it job opportunjties as real estate managersto qualified tenants and community workers, accordingto Joan A. Williams, director of Community ActionCenter No.7 in Brooklyn and a member of tbe In RemTaskForce.

Witb more such jobs available tban applicantswaiting on the Civil Service list, Williams says, the city'sDepartment of General Services (GSD) bas agreed toconsider hiring as managers, at $11,000 per year, appli



UDAG

NOTES FROM WASHINGTON

BROWN AMENDMENTHUD's new $400 million Urban Development

Action Grants (UDAG) program is supposed to

"achieve a reasonable balance" among projectsdesigned to restore needy neighborhoods, generate industry and renew commercial employmentcenters.

Last April, HUD announced the first round of

UDAG grants totaling $150 million. Two-thirds of

the money went for central business district revi

talization efforts. The National Commission onNeighborhoods estimated that only six projectst.otaling $5 million, went to neighborhoods.

Responding to criticism over first roundspending, HUD Assistant Secretary Robert Embrypromised that subsequent grants would beheavily weighted toward neighborhood projects.

Joseph McNeely, director of HUD's Office of

Neignborhood Development, reaffirmed that

pledge in a recent mailing and said HUD is lookingfor proposed projects that will be carried out inneighborhoods, owned in whole or in part by community based development corporations or developed with the substantial participation of suchgroups.

McNeely's letter suggested that community

organizations work with their city governments to

develop UDAG proposals, encourage their cities

to develop projects that can be carried out by localorganizations or initiate their own projects.

For further information, contact City Limits or

the UDAG Task Force, Room 7238, HUD, Washing

The House of Representatives has passed legislation

that includes an amendment that would weaken greatlythe Community Development Block Grant program's

emphasis on low and moderate income people.The amendment, which was introduced by Rep.

Garry Brown of Michigan, would eliminate the existing

authority of the Secretary of HUD to apply a "benefits

test" to CDBG applications.

The test is whether low and moderate income people

are the "principal beneficiaries" of the proposed CDBGapplication-the transcending purpose of the 1974Housing and Community Development Act.

The law currently allows the HUD Secretary to dis

approve applications that do not comply with Title I of

the Act by either.principally benefitting persons of low

and moderate income, preventing and eliminating slumsand blight or meeting other urgent community develop

mentneeds.

While the new CDBG regulations interpret this clauseto provide a three-fold test, the regulations also stress

that the principal beneficiaries of the overall programmust be low and moderate income people.

Brown's amendment would forbid the Secretary to"disapprove an application due to the fact that such

application addresses anyone of the primary purpose. . . to a greater orlesser degree than any other." '-./

Critics of the amendment say it would undermine the

concept of targeting CD funds to the areas where theyare needed the most. They add that the likely place to

remove the amendment will be when it goes into con

ference between the House and the Senate.



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250,000. In this city of large numbers, that's a large number. The City of New York is

fast becoming the number one landlord - some say slumlord - in town, with more than

250,000 tenants in the 20,000 buildings it will take over this year for non-payment of taxes.

Of course you've noticed. But what are we to do?

You will get some answers to that and many other questions from City Limits, the

monthly journal of th e neighborhood housing movement, because City Limits has been

covering th e onrushing problem of building abandonment and foreclosure and the people

trying to deal with it since our first issue in February, 1976.Until recently, New York's housing crisis was but one of many. By the time another

long cold winter looms, however, housing may be at the top of everyone's agenda, yours,

ours, and City Hall's. We think now is the time you need to know what the neighborhood

housing groups, the tenant groups, and the government bureaucrats are doing - or not doing

- to shape and carry out a coherent urban housing policy. City Limits will tell you now.

City Limits will put you in touch with people, places, problems, and programs affecting

housing that the daily newspapers rarely-and barely-touch. What have you heard, fo r

instance, about the In Rem Task Force? Direct Sales Coalition? Community Management?

Participation Loans? Fuel cooperatives? Energy alternatives? All these were the subjects of

recent (and ongoing) City Limits stories.

If you agree that we're telling the housing story that needs to be told fo r you and fo r the



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