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LETTERS, Page 8Resident Owners in Rockford
I read your piece "Turning Public Housing Over to Resident
Owners" (AMERICAN IDEAS, Dec. 12) and want to correct an important
point. You say October 1988 marked "the first time in U.S. history
that public-housing residents could become owners of their homes."
I was executive director of the Rockford housing authority in
Illinois from 1970 to 1977, and during that time Rockford had an
innovative and successful housing program whereby renters could
apply their rental fees toward the purchase of their homes. Tenants
had to attend maintenance school; noncompliance could mean
nonownership. These homes and their tenants often served as models
for the whole community. On numerous occasions I was called to
Washington to explain our successful program to federal housing
officials.
William F. Lewis
Oceanside, Calif.