Box 3

Unnecessary bureaucracy, competition and destructive layer of Model Cities.

Material coming out of the Central Brooklyn Model Cities Office.

Housing based on the work Walter Thabit and other consultants were doing

City reports on implementation of the Vest Pocket and Rehabilitation Program

More consultants to undertake specific tasks that only served to cloud issues and duplicate efforts that never made their way down to the local Model Cities Committee leve.

After the local committee approved Phase II Plan. Communications and requests for fast action on the plan. Became clear that no further planning will take place since no support was forthcoming from central Brooklyn of the City.

Establishing the Ad Hoc Committee of ENY. Vacant land survey and coverage in the media.

News Stories of FHA (Federal Housing Authority) Scandals which shook the entire country, much of it centered on ENY.

ENY and Sunset Park and other neighborhoods join in fighting against FHA Sales of Vacant Property. Objection to the practice of foreclosing a mulit-family building and then throwing out all the tenants before putting it on sale. This is the legal battle files.

Results of reports included in the file.