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Show Reports The Utah Housing Coalition F rom National Tenant Meeting . . . ingenuous project for the elderly on the County Complex grounds at 21st South and State. This planned community will consist of 300 high-risapartments. Bids on these units will go out within the next few weeks. e Held by Donna Reilly Utah Seven persons representing various CAP groups and tenant unions attended the annual conference of the National Tenant Organization, Inc. at George Washington University in Washington, D. C. August 4 - 7. Representatives from the Salt Lake area were Donna Reilly, Salt Lake CAP; Lillie Fleming, Central City CAP; Father Thomas J. Kaiser, SL City and County Tenant Union; Gary Bowman, Northwest Council; Patsy Hart, Oquirrh CAP; Dorothy Byergo, South County CAP and Tenant Union; and Ted Buxis, Union of the Poor. Housing Coalition Meets Weekly Neighborhood Low-Co- st Housing Planned by Paul Herrick The Salt Lake City Housing Authority has the following low income housing units planned: Section 23 (owned by the developer, leased by the Housing Authority) 100 family units. Turnkey (owned by the -- Housing Authority) 50 family units 300 elderly units (150 in the City, 150 in the County) This is the situation with the Section 23 units. Construction will begin October 1 on 25 units at Pacific Avenue and 15th West by COOP. (Ed. Note: See related story on the COOP housing project.) A joint venture by Lockwood Modern Environmental Construction, Development Corporation and AmCon International, Inc., has been selected to construct 75 units, 25 units at Meade Avenue and Emery Street and 25 units at a site still by Ruth Pentajon The next meeting of the Utah Housing Coalition will be August 29, 1:30 p.m.. Salt Lake CAP, 2033 South State, 3rd floor. This group meets weekly on Tuesdays. The Utah Housing Coalition is composed of individuals and representatives of groups in the community who recognize the need and wish to work for low income housing. The Coalition Steering Committee is composed of Carl Inoway from ASSIST, Donna Reilly from the Community Action Agency and Chuck Brenner, Executive Director of LIHDC of Utah. Fred Detric from the Community Development Program will also serve on the Steering Committee. The City and County Commissions and Housing Authorities are cooperating on an deteriorating neighborhoods of our State, depending upon the rural areas, Indian reservations or central city areas of our urban communitiies. whether they live in Several Churches and low-incom- e several Group Provides Assistance by Chuck Brenner pending. appraisal. this what we can expect in housing? community organizations have shown interest in sponsoring Final details are being executed on these projects. Under the Turnkey program, developers have been selected and one site for 25 units has been approved at 2576 South 9th East. The site for the other 25 units awaits approval and ground Is Providing housing for low-incom- families and e often very difficult. Organizations working with the poor may face, on occasion, the wrath of citizens unsympathetic individuals is to the need for low-incom- e housing projects. Still, the need for involvement in housing continues to be acute. Families continue to face the natural elements, the infested slums and housing projects and have incorporated as Churches of Utah to serve the pressing human need of better housing. MSAC realizes the religious need for involvement, but feels that the commitments of the residential, professional and business communities must also be acquired. The goal of MSAC is develop community concern and create a Board of Trustees composed of individuals nonprofit housing corporations. Due to the abundance of paperwork, planning and development which the local sponsor must complete before a project may become reality, a staff of specialists is required, yet few organizations have the money to hire this staff. The purpose of Low Income Housing Development Corporation of Utah (LIHDC) is not to be a sponsor, but to aid the local sponsor by providing access to the staff which is needed to accomplish the sponsor's housing goal. A full time staff will be employed by the LIHDC to provide this technical assistance service. The LIHDC of Utah is a nonprofit corporation recently by the Mission Strategy Action Committee, a incorporated joint committee of the Presbyterian and Methodist representative of bodies, community, civic, professional and business organizations and organizations representative of the communities. Please feel free to write, ask or comment on any matters of housing concern. We need your support. Write LIHDC of Utah, 203 South 2nd East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 or phone low-incom- 328-872- 6. Got a question about housing? Any question all religious at all, call e |