European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse By Jill Lawrence associated press the it or Ait ago. M -. Ran a Sia o n cd t. -. Arc in and Hof i to Lannart . Iff if can. . Of Pond Alcyr d Jofrid vow my n we a bum to. Thriving Here s aha tier Dens of Kenilworth Park do look Inlo their on hand and Learned to manage the 4fj4-unit project it had Boon run by a in vat Tirron under contract of the City once the tenants won the management contract conditions storied to improve. We have n vested interest we live Here so we really care we re super sensitive explains Kimi Gray Chow Ian of the Kim Worth Parkside resident corp the same determination to help has propelled tenant managers to Succes in at Ina it live other Citurs ac.ro1the country. And in Itu Irio veined into a rallying Point Lor the Reagan and Iuni Tran on and Blak conservatives we firmly believe that Peop r Lead or t want to via Jura sch av.,. Tant a i Creary i policy development and r.�.,i at tie or attn eni of housing and Dian Sove we eco sit lilies out proponents tout the new Nanar Wernent system As a Rennedy not Only Tor housing problems but a Host of social Juis. The six projects studied by Woodson s year-old research group Are examples of Success in harsh and unlikely set links Success that can be measured not Only in bricks and Morfor. But in people employed and pregnancies averted businesses begun and teen agers sent to College. In St. Louts dead bodies were an occasional sight in the elevators of Cochran gardens in Jersey City vagrants took Over vacant apartments in he a Harry Moore project. The Bromley Heath project in Jamaica Plains near Boston had 4,000 broken windows when tenants took Over. The bodies drifters and broken windows Are All gone now. The Model resident management project is Kenilworth Parkside. Adjacent tracts Ollow Rise Garden apartments that just Roniss looking truly suburban the occasional lot is Bare or overgrown and the Overall impression still is institutional too much Concrete too Many Chain link fences. But the streets Are clean and lined with a few Trees and most of the lawns me freshly mowed clean Wash Waves on backyard clotheslines and neighbors socialize around grills and picnic tables. Three years ago. You could sit right Here and watch rats and mice run across the says Kimi Gray pointing Oul Hei window. To understood that if we managed it. It could t be any Kem Worth was Lucky. The City s mayor and housing director agreed to take a Chance and had 15 residents trained As managers. The Cost according to Gray was $50,000. Three years ago the group was incorporated and signed its first contract. They hired 32 residents As staff and almost immediately exercised their new right to hire and fire contractors by getting rid of Ineffie Cuenl boiler engineers and an errant trash collector. They began counselling drug abusers and working with local police to reduce crime they started a program to Send their kids to College and a pregnancy prevention program Lor teen age girls called it s of to say they rated Money to Start two Day care centers a supermarket a health cling an employment service a Coin laundry and other businesses. They also managed to win a $ 13.2 million rehabilitation Grant from impressed Hud officials. Al the same time the new tenant Man age a got " us i a the the peer. I is e to. A a Jarf i i to who Prno erty and nr.re-.,- to to a " ran. In in. No Chhn Ihnow. not in . It a t ii t it ,. I a i Lun r,.-. Ii i " r. Unit it i in t in to i. I s who. Of i. Re i d in i Voth new it i u in " u a Al c l-,.ir, in you in t t Ivi a Damn you can t my standards. Socially 01 t con runic 1 Grayr. Say bit. " did " vhf f Orne tenant. Up enl tie strict surveillance others the new one beneficiary Tias been die Vales. C6. Or him a of two a Secretary for the management corporation and an manager of Parkr de. Before tenant management she was unemployed on welfare and living with her Mother. Tie co i a b a i a Ehe Saljr d Inri i i l ing Lor i Nav n a Ter Outlook on life a 10 i " d my Ain. I have my own Placo and nex Yaar i hop-1 to Chi t my i Cev e
