The federal commitment
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President George Bush and Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp have committed the federal government to policies that will empower the residents of public housing authorities (PHAs) with economic and self-help opportunities that will break the cycle of poverty and dependency by making the residents self-sufficient. Kemp has announced the government's intention to empower low-income people to make choices, own homes, and control their own fates through a system of resident initiatives that will improve PHAs and produce opportunities for low-income people to enter mainstream society by breaking their cycle of dependency. Kemp's program seeks to have in training 250 resident management organizations by 1992, which should greatly increase entrepreneurship in public housing projects and make one million low-income people home owners within the next tow years.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1991
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Resident initiatives: a new HUD commitment
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Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp created the Office of Resident Initiatives (ORI) within the Office of Public and Indian Housing in Jun 1989 to foster commitment to resident and public housing authority (PHA) initiatives. The partnerships seek to encourage public housing authority residents to become homeowners, acquire job skills and higher incomes, and achieve better living conditions. The ORI is responsible for encouraging home-ownership, enhancing resident participation and management, creating drug-free environments in PHAs, fostering economic development, and providing support services. There are three program units of the ORI: the Resident Management/Participation Program Division, Homeownership, and Economic Development and Supportive Programs.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1991
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A homeownership challenge
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Congressman William Clay's opposition to the attempt by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to privatize the Carr Square Village in St. Louis by promoting home ownership by the project's residents is misguided. A one-for-one replacement policy will be implemented for units sold and the current housing stock will be preserved through a limited equity cooperative arrangement. The Carr Square project, with or without private home ownership, will remain eligible for federal rehabilitation funding. The tenants' homeownership proposal has been carefully worked out over a period of three years. The privatization of the Carr Square project attempts to structure government programs to minimize dependency among low-income individuals by directly empowering them.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1991
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