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...Tenant groups and some board members have questioned the propriety of classifying a property as distressed when its owner can afford the renovations, though...
Michael H. Turk, spokesman for the tenant coalition, said that the city should not allow Harvard to turn Craigie Arms into "luxury" housing...
...recently as 1940, 41 percent of all Blacks lived on farms Largely because of the mechanization of agriculture, however, millions of Black tenant farmers found themselves displaced from their already precarious positions. Some went to Southern cities, a large number of them migrated to the North. By 1970 then the number of Blacks on farms had declined to less than 5 percent Under ordinary circumstances we could expect such a massive social dislocation to have an adverse impact on Black family stability, we could also expect that it would take some time for Blacks to become adjusted to urban life...
Elevators rarely work. Despite this winter's bone-chilling temperatures, the project's 4,000 residents have had heat only intermittently. Several days before Christmas, one shivering tenant accidentally set her apartment on fire with an electric space heater. She had to wait 31½ weeks for the public housing authority to make repairs. She still is without regular heat. More than a decade ago, dynamite and wrecking balls claimed St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe, the nation's high-rise symbol of all that was wrong with public housing...
...need for improved programs for funding and managing low-income housing is critical, but until they are developed, existing projects will need to be maintained. HUD estimates it would take $67 billion to replace them. Without public housing or low-cost alternatives, says Carrie Copeland, president of Capitol Homes Tenant Association in Atlanta, "there's nowhere else...