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Show ifttnnp Guest Editorial this apartment house by Home by Donna Reilly, Salt Lake Community Action Program Housing Specialist Two apartments were rented through a rental agency at 1541 South West Temple. Two apartments in the building had seven health code violations. The Board of Health closed these apartments to occupancy on August 24, 1 972. There were also seven additional violations against the building in general. Two tenants were referred to Rentals and Computer Realistate Service. A charge of $15 and $20 was made by these agencies to the from Northwest tenants. A person should be given a service for his money and referred to a decent apartment or house. By decent, mean one that meets health code standards. Some rental agencies and landlords are taking advantage of e people because of the e units. shortage of This must be stopped. I low-incom- low-incom- by Laura Briggs Tom Sessions, Chairman of Northwest Neighborhood Council, states that the regular monthly meeting of the Council will be held Tuesday, October 10, 7:30 p.m. at the Northwest e Center, 1 300 West 2nd North. Multi-purpos- from your editor In . . . Business to be discussed includes results of a Northwest Memory The Central City community and the community at large lost a dedicated man and a good friend with the recent death of Kermit Jefferson . "Jeff" has he was lovingly called by his friends started his community involvement as an employee of the Community Action Program. He walked many miles with John Florez, former CAP director, to arouse support and raise funds for the building of the Central City Community Center. He was instrumental in establishing many recreation programs for the youngsters in the community and was seemingly always available to listen to someone's problems. He worked for the establishment of a community newspaper, "The The single, strongest memory of Kermit Jefferson was his vast sense of humor and infectious laugh. His widow, Lola Jefferson, has been a hard worker in her neighborhood and has been active, until Kermit's recent illness, in the Model Cities Manpower and Economic Development Task Force and served as secretary of the Central City Neighborhood Council. Residents and the staff of the Model Neighborhood News extend their sympathy to Mrs. Jefferson and share with her the loss of a fine man and a good friend. model neighborhood nei by Kirk Terry Consider for a moment the severity of the problem of an elderly retired couple with limited income needing repairs done in their home and not being able to physically or economically do the work. Think for a moment about the young family living on a small budget needing a water heater and broken windows replaced, but again unable to make the repairs. These situations are not fictitious, they are common place throughout the community. The Model Cities Emergency Home assistance to Lake Model Cities Agency under the supervision of the Joint Board Department of News is made possible through a grant from the Housing and Urban Development. of City and County Publication of the newspaper weekly with a distribution of Commissioners with editorial is offices located at 383 East 1700 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 20,000 copies. For further 84115. Publication of the Model or to register a request or complaint on delivery of the newspaper, call 467-801information 4. Produced by the Communications Service Center, Inc. Marlene Marie Young, Editor and Community Information Specialist Distribution by Reliable Courier Kirk Terry, Staff Reporter Roger Taylor, Photographer Barbara Smith, Staff Reporter Laura Briggs, Staff Reporter Joint Board of Commissioners Ralph Y. McClure, Chairman Phillip R. Blomquist Stephen Harmsen CoTirad Harrison Jennings Phillips William E. Dunn non-prof- it the meeting, according to Sessions. "Other issues will be on the business agenda," states Sessions, "but they are not all confirmed at this time. Suggestions are welcome and all interested Northwest Community citizens are urged to attend." Project Handles Home Repairs Repair project was designed to assist those individuals with these and si miliar problems. The purpose of the project is to provide financial and technical a salt lake Neighborhood personnel. Faron lth,iTask Force Coordinator, has presented the competed summary to Sessions for community discussion and recommendations. Northwest Council has new status as a corporation and some of the benefits will also be a major item of discussion at o model cities project Thinking CAP" which was the first such community newspaper in the Salt Lake area. The Model Neighborhood News is a publication of the Salt Neighborhood door to door survey which was recently completed by Model Cities need a home, they generally needed it yesterday. Following are comments from residents assisted through the project, which made it possible for them to remain in their homes. Names are withheld by request. One lady said that the stairs in her home were minus a stairway rail and that she had fallen several times injuring her hip. To complicate things, she added, the hot water heater in the house was defective and she had to do with little or no hot water. Emergency Home Repair accepted her application and replaced the water heater with a new one and installed a banister on the stairs. "I think they are Model wonderful," she expressed. Neighborhood residents in handling emergency home 'They are doing a great job." The repairs. The funding of $1 40,000 from Model Cities and $4,000 from Areawide Models on Aging's Independent Living Project will be utilized throughout the model neighborhood. It is estimated that 571 homeowners will benefit from this project at an average cost of $350.00 per each repair job. The project will extend from March 1, 1972 to February 28, 1973. The long range goal of this project is also worthy of note, "to relieve pressure on the local housing shortage crisis by helping low moderate income and elderly residents make emergency home repairs, thus allowing more homes to be inhabited until such time that new housing becomes available." Access to adequate lowmoderate income housing is serious in the Salt Lake community and when residents lady indicated that there was no other way that these repairs could have been made and that the program should be expanded to help others. Another lady said she was faced with the dilemma having to install an adequate sewer system in her home that would dispose of the raw sewage that had backed up under her home, or face possible loss of her children in accordance with Welfare Department demands placed on her. She said the cost of replacing the sewer system was impossible to meet and that only by receiving the assistance from adequate bathroom facilities. He said Emergency Home Repair people came into his home, replaced the faulty bathtub and installed a much needed shower. He stated that he could in no way have done the work himself and that the project "answered my problem." "I'm for the project," he said, and stated he would fully endorse an increase in funding for the project in order to assist anyone else with emergencies in the home. The electrical wiring had never been replaced in the 35 years a lady said she had lived in her house. Some of the rooms, she continued, didn't have switches for the lights. A washing machine her family had given her for Christmas, she said, couldn't be used because the house had not been equipped with safe and adequate grounding. Project workers completed the work and she said, "this is wonderful for people in my position." On a limited social security income, she added, the repairs would have been out of the question. Emergency Home Repair project is contracted with the Salt Lake CityCounty Health Department and will be operated by Environmental Health Services in a working agreement with ASSIST, Inc. A Citizens Advisory Committe was formed consisting of ten members whose function is to review and prioritize applications for repairs. The committee is made up of six Emergency Home Repairs was she able to keep her house. The work was completed, she said, residents (one from each and "if it weren't for the project, I might not have been able to keep my kids." One gentleman is blind and was in need of a water heater and delegate, one member from neighborhood council), one Housing Task Force Chairman or ASSIST, Inc., one member from Environmental Health Services and one member at large from the Housing Task Force. |