Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice is angry; he has things he wants known--powerful ideas and principles which he believes are reducible, once the fight is enjoined, to such small sustaining acts as changing a light bulb in the apartment of a fellow a light bulb in the apartment of a fellow tenant too old to climb a ladder. But he does not bore the reader with his anger. In stead he spins a fascinating personal yearn about the lengthy battle waged by the tenants fo an old rent-controlled walk-up apartment house in the Gramercy Park section of New York City against...
...effecting the tenants' slow turnaround from paralyzing fear to embattlement, the organizers of tenant resistance met with their most serious obstacle: convincing their fellow tenants that to win the battle they only had to stay ensconced in their apartments "and say no. No to all intimidation. No to harrassment. No to the tireless rumormongers." Overcoming the obedience to authority of the neighbors was so difficult that by the time the small nucleus of organizers had succeeded, the number of occupied apartments had fallen from...
Trust and pragmatic concern become essential weapons in a protracted tenant struggle, but the primary one needed to make this counter-power work is the engagement of the media, particularly the neighborhood press Describing a Boston battle Forway vs. Mass. Historical Society, Worthy credits the community's small, monthly tabloid with holding the community together. To assist a resistance movement, he details in vivid example throughout the book, and in two extraordinary appendices, and incisive and brilliant account of how to work with both the community and metropolitan press...
Haymarket's donors, board, and staff are not interested in "helping others," with the patronizing condescension the phrase implies. Haymarket, unlike traditional foundations, is taking money out of the hands of people who hold power in this country, and putting into the hands of activists in tenant organizations, women's centers, and rank and file labor movements who decide on its utilization. Haymarket is working to be a resource for change, not charity. Haymarket Peoples Fund 2 Holyoke St. Cambridge...
These constraints are land, construction, and financing. Their costs, in the case of community development corporations, are paid for by a combination of tenants'rents and government subsidies and loans. Land, about 20 per cent of the total development cost, is often subsidized by a local housing authority like the BRA, which acquires parcels and sells the land to the developer of its choice. For non-profit housing, the principle of the mortgage, which is 100 per cent guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration and covers land acquisition, construction or rehabilitation, is paid off entirely out of tenant's rents...