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I Say Try: A Successful Low-Cost Alternative for Housing Rehabilitation with Volunteers and Job Training.
Harms, Hans H.; Phinney, A. W. – 1974
The report gives a brief history of Boston's South End, its housing situation, and the Low Cost Housing Corporation (LCHC), founded in 1965 as a nonprofit organization to provide housing for low income tenants. The rehabilitation process for brickfront row houses is described thoroughly. Details of a training program which utilized volunteers and…
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