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</font><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" color="#000000" size="3">Hear the report back from the DC NAHT strategy meeting.</font>
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<div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;"><font style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" size="5">Victory!</font><br /><br /><font size="4">MAHT Tenant Leaders Help Win National <br />Section 8 Funding!</font><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">
<font size="2">The Mass Alliance of HUD
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tenants</span> played a key role in recently winning $2.0 billion to close a
dangerous shortfall in Section 8 funds that threatened hundreds of thousands of
low income tenants with mass displacement and the permanent loss of affordable
housing. </span></font><br /><br /><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On Friday, March 6,
Congress sent the HUD budget for Fiscal Year 2009 to President Obama, which
along with $2 billion in the Stimulus Bill fully funds Section 8 apartments for
another year. The "Project Based
Section 8" program keeps rents affordable for 1.3 million families who live in
apartments subsidized by HUD. </span></font><br /><br /><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
The action closes a gap created
by the Bush Administration in recent years, which quietly diverted funds from
Section 8 to pay for other Administration priorities, unbeknownst to
Congress. Section 8 landlords were forced to accept
partial contracts for several months at a time, rather than the full 12 months
originally promised by HUD. This led
many owners to end their contracts with HUD and faced hundreds of thousands of
tenants with the threat of displacement if HUD ran out of funds, which actually
happened in summer 2007. </span></font><br /><br /><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
The <span style="font-weight: bold;">National Alliance of HUD
Tenants (NAHT)</span> Board uncovered the crisis in a meeting with HUD officials
in September 2007. NAHT won a a
Congressional hearing chaired by Rep. Maxine Waters, where NAHT Board member
Carolann Livingstone gave dramatic testimony on October 17 (www.saveourhomes.org). HUD was forced publically to admit the
shortfall; previously HUD had told Congress that "administrative glitches" had
caused owners to receive late subsidy payments. </span></font><br /><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></font><br /><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
After the hearing, MAHT was the
first organization in the country to bring the issue to the public's attention,
with a rally in November 2007 at St. Botolph apartments in Boston's Fenway. The rally sparked other actions in New York City, Providence, Dallas and other cities
in spring 2008 and a national advocacy campaign by tenant groups and their
allies. </span></font><br /><br /><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
At the June 2008 NAHT Conference, MAHT's 24 delegates joined with other
statewide tenant groups to lobby Capitol Hill officials, with the Section 8
shortfall at the top of their list. MAHT tenants joined tenants from
across the country to bring NAHT's Save Our Homes Platform to the McCain
Campaign - we were shut out by the Republicans but met with the Obama Campaign at the NAHT
conference.</span></font><br /><br /><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
In October 2008, more than 55 MAHT tenant leaders and supporters marched in
Downtown Boston, again trying to deliver the Platform to the McCain Campaign
Headquarters and to bring public attention to the Section 8 shortfall.
This action was part of <span style="font-weight: bold;">International Housing Day</span>, an event MAHT has
organized locally since 2003.</span></font><br /><br /><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">MAHT's October rally sparked
similar actions in Miami,
Chicago and other cities. </span></font><br /><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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MAHT leaders also helped persuade Congress to fully fund Section 8 on a
temporary basis last fall until the until the final FY 2009 budget was adopted,
which finally happened in March. </span></font>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Current Organizing News</span></font><font size="4"><br /></font></div><font size="4"><br /></font>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="1"><font size="2">__________________________________________<br /><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">Dateline: </span></font></font></font></span></font><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lawrence, Massachusetts</span><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Lawrence Tenants
Bring in 2009 with Victory!</span></font><font size="3"><br />
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<font size="2">The
tenants at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bradford Apartments in Lawrence</span> are celebrating a victory as they bring in 2009. On the
first of the year - after a long campaign to improve living conditions and
restore affordability to the property - the building was transferred over to a
new owner: Omni America LLC, based out of New York. Omni is
committed to keeping the property affordable through tax credits and has
planned a $5.9 million renovation of the property, to begin immediately. The
Bradford Tenant Association has already sent out a ltetter to the new
owners requesting complete involvement in the renovation process.</font><br /><br />
<font size="2">At the same time, the Bradford
Tenant Association decided to re-file the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lawrence Home Rule Petition to
Save Affordable Housing (HRP)</span>. Although the affordability of their
building looks a little safer now that it has a new owner, Bradford TA
decided to go ahead with the HRP for extra protection, recalling how the
last owner caught everyone by surprise by opting out of the Section 8 contract
in 2005 without a plan for vouchers. The Lawrence HRP would also
protect four other buildings in Lawrence that are at risk of losing their
affordability within the next two years. The Bradford Tenant
Association had a strong presence at the Lawrence City Council meeting on
January 6, 2009 and their efforts paid off as the HRP passed the Council.
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<font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" size="3">Dateline:
Roslindale, Massachusetts</font></span><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" size="3"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">High Point Village Families United Demands Equity in Treatment </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">from Landlord FRM </span></span></font><br />
<font size="2"><br />Since August 2006, owner Kargman's FRM
Management Company has been providing amenity upgrades only for new market
rate tenants moving into High Point/Stonybrook Commons. Long-time lower-income tenants were left out in the cold. </font><br /><br />
<img height="172" border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.96" width="172" alt="Petition at High Point Village" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/96.jpg?a=1102508167509"><br /><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" size="1"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> HPFU delivers petition to First Realty</span><br /></font><br /><font size="2">On
November 17, 2008 <span style="font-weight: bold;">High Point Village Families United (HPFU)</span><br /><br />Earlier,
HPFU had won agreement from the Boston Housing Authority that it would pay higher
subsidies to FRM to offset costs for upgrades provided to long time residents. delivered a
letter and petition signed by 237 residents to First Realty, demanding that
upgrades (like remodeled kitchens and bathrooms, new full sized appliances,
planked floors, eat-in kitchens and breakfast bar, and washer/dryer hookups be
provided for ALL residents, not just the new market-rate residents. </font>
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<font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dateline: Roxbury,
Massachusetts</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">
<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">ROXSE Tenants Elect New Leadership </span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">
Demand Mass Housing Remove Corrupt Manager</span></font><br />
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<font size="2">At the ROXSE Tenants Council (RTC)
Annual Membership Meeting on December 18, 2008, tenants unanimously voted to
remove Carmen Storms as President and elect Assistant Treasurer George Jones to
fill out the rest of her two-year term.<br />
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"As President, I
pledge to call regular Membership meetings of all the tenants to hear and
respond to your concerns," Jones told the jubilant gathering.
"Now we'll be able to move forward in a united way, to work for our vision
of tenant ownership, without interference by Cornerstone
management." Jones' election was met with applause, cheers and
hugs by the tenants at the United
Emanuel Holiness
Church meeting.<br />
<br />
City Councilor
Chuck Turner chaired the election at the request of the RTC Board. The
meeting also elected additional Board members to the 25 member body and amended
the By-Laws to strengthen accountability and limit management
interference. </font><br /><br />
<img height="80" border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.92" width="160" alt="ROXSE PHOTO AT NEW BOARD ELECTION" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/92.jpg?a=1102508167509"> <font size="1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Roxse Tenants Gather for Photo at UEH Church<br /><br /></span></font>
<font size="2">MAHT has staffed the RTC's campaign to win
ownership and removal of corrupt management since 2005. Under the
leadershiop of former RTC presdient Jim McNeill, MAHT previously staffed RTC's
nationally significant victory to block a HUD appointed sale to California
speculators and inclusion in Mass Housing's Demo Dispo Program. <br />
<br />Tenants voted 38 to 0 to remove Storms after she failed to provide any
information to tenants about $27,143 she improperly received from Cornerstone
and Mass Housing on behalf of the RTC, without the Board's knowledge or
authorization. In a January 21, 2009 letter to the RTC, the Massachusetts
Attorney General's Office concluded that "President Storms lacked the
authority to request, receive, deposit and expend RTC Funds." Since
her election as President in October 2007, Storms had also failed to attend or
call meetings of the RTC Board of Directors.</font><br />
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<font size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mass Housing Fails to Respond</span><br />
Since
June 2005, the RTC has demanded that Mass Housing, which oversees the 346 unit
development, remove Cornerstone Properties and their resident on-site manager,
Linda Evans, for corruption, harassment of tenants and hostility to the elected
tenants organization. Evans has fought to prevent the Board from taking
over the property as General Partner, even using armed guards to keep out the
RTC's attorneys from tenant meetings called by Evans and Storms.
Storms was viewed by residents as a close ally of Evans. Aformer
presdident of RTC, Evans engineered the trasnfer of ROXSE to Cornerstone for
$1.00 in 2004, after HUD spent $50 m on repairs. In what the RTC calls a
"corrupt bargain", Cornerstone then rewarded Evans by hiring her as
property manager.<br />
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Under pressure
from former Senator Diane Wilkerson, who received at least $15,000 in campaign
contributions from Cornerstone principals, Mass Housing has refused to
investigate allegations of apartment selling and unlawful apartment assignments
by Evans, instead funding Storms to fight the Board. Mass Housing has refused
to recognize or meet with the elected Board since 2006, despite repeated
requests.</font><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">Dateline:
Fenway Neighborhood, Boston, MA</span></span></font><font size="2"><font size="3"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">St. Botolph Terrace Tenant
Association wins </span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">
Long Overdue Parking Spaces for Tenants</span></font><br /><br />
After years of effort, <span style="font-weight: bold;">St.
Botolph Terrace Tenant Association</span> won a victory for St. Botolph Terrace
tenants - the city has instituted resident-only parking around the building, to
compensate for the extreme lack of off-street parking provided to
tenants. Persistent advocacy by SPTTA Rosalind Dawson and intervention by
city councilor Chuck Turner persuaded the city transportation and parking
departments to make the change. Also, the Tenant Association recently
held its first meeting of 2009 at Susan Bailis House, holding ongoing
discussion with Northeastern's management about building conditions and
amenities.</font> <br />
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<font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">BREAKING NEWS:<br />On March 1, 2009 Georgetowne tenants were notified that owner Beacon Properties plans to opt out of HUD contracts, threatening hundreds with mass displacement! More to come...</span><br /><br />Dateline: Roslindale, Massachusetts</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Georgetowne Tenants form Tenant Association
after <br />Record Turnout in November Election</span></span></font><br /><br />
<font size="2">On Election Day 2008 Georgetowne tenants scored a record voter turnout and a lopsided "no" vote on Question 1, which would have abolished the state income tax and slashed community services.<br /><br />For the fourth year in a row, MAHT's voter registration team moblized residents, registering 72 more voteres in 2008.<br /><br />Right before the November election, Georgetown residents met to form a tenant group to help all voters at Georgetowne turn out
on Election Day. Tenants discussed how an active tenant group could meet with Beacon Management to talk about repairs and long-term affordability. (HUD contracts that keep 967 Georgetowne apartments affordable expire in 2010 and 2012.)<br /><br />Georgetowne
tenants have met four times since last Fall and at their meeting on
December 4 decided to form a Tenant Association. The purpose of
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Georgetowne Tenants United</span> is to preserve long-term affordability at
Georgetowne for current and future residents and to ensure repairs are made in
a timely manner.<br />
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The major concerns expressed at recent meetings were snow removal, mice, mold,
heating, and the lack of a nearby convenience store. Tenants are now meeting
on a regular basis to discuss ways they can go about protecting affordability
at Georgetowne and how to address the issues above. <br />
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At its January meeting, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Georgetowne Tenants United</span> voted to survey Georgetowne residents to identify issues to
raise with management at a later meeting. </font><br />
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<font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">Dateline Salem, Massachusetts</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Fairweather United Tenant Association Comes Alive!</span></span></font><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="2">Residents of over 320 apartments in Beverly, Salem and Peabody have united to form the Fairweather United Tenant Association (FUTA), and are helping to organize residents of a fourth Fairweather building in Danvers as well.</font><br /><br /><font size="2">Already they have met with management, winning concessions to improve the quality of life in their buildings.</font><br /><font size="2"> </font><br /><font size="2">These tenants, mostly seniors, have engaged management to deal with several difficult issues recently. When cleaning and snow-ploughing contractors</font><font size="2"> did not perform up to par, residents let management know, and the contractors</font><font size="2"> were replaced by companies that met higher standards. And, with residents'</font><font size="2"> input, management is installing workout equipment, computer rooms, new TV's</font><font size="2"> in common areas, and other amenities.</font><br /></div><font size="2"> <br />During a recent push by MAHT to get support for crucial legislation protecting HUD-subsidized housing, FUTA members reached out to their legislators to ask for their support, winning co-sponsorship from their Senator and all three of their Representatives.<br /> <br />In November, the Tenants Association held an election to replace outgoing president, Marcie Gagnon, who will continue as a Board member of MAHT. The new FUTA president is Barbara Wolcott, a resident of the Salem building. <br /><br />Her outlook on being organized? "You get more accomplished when you have a good team!"</font><br />
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<font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">Dateline: Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan and Jamaica Plain</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">
Jonathan Realty aka Mattapan Apartments: <br />Tenants win pledge to keep affordable rents!<br /></span></font>
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<font size="2">In 2008,
many tenants in the Mattapan/TAB II/Morton St. Apartments organized around
building concerns and started building Tenant Unions. They met with the landlord (Jonathan
Realty) winning building repairs. Also, a prior notice was sent by
Jonathan Realty (a year before the one-year obligated notice of intent to
tenants) informing tenants they plan to renew the Mattapan/TAB II/Morton Apartments Section 8
contract in 2010 for another five years. <br />
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Tenants also won a right to be involved in Jonathan Realty's Mattapan/TAB
II/Morton Apartments annual inspections and the annual inspection with Jonathan
Realty and Mass Housing as well. The tenants have forged
alliances with neighborhood agencies who allow them use of meeting
space, which has led them to discuss program services at their tenant union
meetings.<br /><br />
Tenants from the tenant unions in the Mattapan Apartments formed a
newsletter committee that has printed and distributed a 2008 winter edition. Other tenants have been instrumental in getting
their legislators attention to support the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Enabling Act to Save Affordable Housing</span> that has been refiled this year by calling and lobbying
legislators at the State House. The Mattapan Apartment tenant unions and
tenants continue to meet to improve the quality of life in their environment,
and to form new tenant unions. </font>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">Dateline: Brighton, Massachusetts</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Waverly Tenants
Association Gets ready for a fight</span></span></font><br />
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In August of 2008,
one of the largest apartment owners in the world, a Real Estate Investment
Trust (REIT) from Colorado called AIMCO, purchased Waverly Apartments in
Brighton. The previous owner, Francis Collanino, didn't bother to let residents know about the
upcoming sale, and refused all requests to meet with the Waverly Tenants
Association after they found out. Still, it came as a shock when AIMCO paid
over $176,000 per unit, and residents started worrying about rent increases. <br /><br />
REITs are
notorious for buying up affordable properties and flipping them to market
rates, displacing low income tenants. They see these apartments
as nothing more than investments on which they can cash in to boost profits, even though taxpayers over the years have paid
almost all the value of the buildings. <br /><br />
At an October meeting with AIMCO, the Waverly Tenants Association (WTA) learned that AIMCO planned immediate rent increases up to $300 for some tenants, which they said was the "first round" of increases. Almost immediately, the WTA began hearing from residents saying they would have to move out if their rents increased. <br /><br />
The elected
officials who represent Brighton have refused to support legislation that
would solve the problems at Waverly as well as those at HUD-subsidized
buildings across Massachusetts. Either the Boston Home Rule Petition or the
Statewide Enabling Act would regulate rents and limit increases at formerly HUD-subsidized buildings like Waverly. <br /><br />Rep. Michael Moran and Sen. Anthony Galluccio, who
represent Waverly at the State House, have told residents not to expect their
support for either bill. And Kevin Honan, who represents Brighton and co-chairs
the Housing Committee, has refused even to allow the bills for a vote in the House.<br /><br />
Recently,
working with the Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants, the WTA wrote to AIMCO proposing
a creative solution to the crisis faced by their community. For lower income
residents, they proposed applying for what are called Project-based Vouchers
from the local Housing Authority. For higher income residents, existing state
and local resources could be used to assemble a special fund, which in turn
would be tapped to pay residents' rent increases. If AIMCO accepts this plan
and the funds can be found, AIMCO's income would stay the
same while Waverly residents wouldn't be socked with a massive increase. <br /><br />
The WTA is waiting for AIMCO's response. </font>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" color="#669966"><img height="99" border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.71" width="120" contenteditable="false" alt="25th thirteen" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/71.jpg?a=1102508167509" align="left" /></font><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" size="1"> <span style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">Muriel O'Neil of MAHT and Angela Brown, Hyams Foundation </span> <br /><a track="on" href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1102035075033" target="_blank"><img src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/56.jpg?a=1102508167509" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.56" width="111" vspace="5" border="0" alt="25 Ann Roberta Thall" align="left" height="102" hspace="5" /></a> </font><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" size="1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Roberta Thall of the Roberta Thall Charitable Trust</span></font><br /><a track="on" href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1102035075033" target="_blank"><img src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/70.jpg?a=1102508167509" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.70" width="104" vspace="5" border="0" alt="25th twleve" align="left" height="110" hspace="5" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" size="1">Bob Wadsworth, The Boston Foundation</font><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On December 16, 2008
one-hundred people gathered at Susan Bailis House in the Fenway to help </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mass
Alliance of HUD Tenants celebrate its 25th anniversary</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> with music, potluck
dinner and a program honoring the many tenant leaders who helped lead the many
MAHT victories. In addition, we paid tribute to three funders who have
been intrepid in their support and their faith in the work of MAHT:
Roberta Thall of the Roberta Thall Charitable Trust, Angela Brown of the Hyams
Foundation and Bob Wadsworth, formerly of the Boston Foundation.</span><br /></div><br /></div></div></div><div align="justify">
<img height="89" border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.87" width="160" alt="Una Voce" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/87.jpg?a=1102508167509"> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> <font size="1">Una Voce Sings for MAHT's Anniversary</font></span><font size="1"><br /></font><br />With
Board President William Pryor the Emcee for the evening, the program started
off with songs by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Una Voce</span>, a world music singing group from the South End
whose members include Eleanor McCarthy a MAHT tenant leader and MAHT Board
Member. Following Una Voce's presentation, MAHT's first treasurer and
long-time housing advocate from the Fenway - Mat Thall - welcomed people to the
event and spoke briefly about the past 25 years. From there, MAHT's 25
year history was represented by tenant leaders from various buildings who stood
to tell their stories about successful struggles to save their homes.
Speakers included Annette Richards from Schoolhouse 77; Maggie Costa from East
Canton Street Tenants Association; John Davis from Mishawum Park in
Charlestown; Mary Yeaton of Charlesbank Apartments; and Salea Perry from High
Point Village Families United.<br /><br />
<img height="87" border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.59" width="160" alt="25thOne" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/59.jpg?a=1102508167509"> <font size="1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maggie Costa, William Pryor & Erika Cushenberry</span></font><br />
<br />Following the presentation of the history of the past 25 years, MAHT Board
members paid tribute to our honorees and each honoree spoke of their
relationship with Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants.<br />
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The end of the evening was marked by inspirational testimony and beautiful song by former
MAHT Board member and leader, Juanita McCoy.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><img height="76" border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.60" width="183" contenteditable="false" alt="25th Two" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/60.jpg?a=1102508167509" align="left"><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" size="1"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />Jean Wassell & Diane Huggins (Amy Lowell House)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></font><img height="98" border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.73" width="124" contenteditable="false" alt="25th fifteen" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/73.jpg?a=1102508167509" align="left"><br /><br /><font style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;" size="1"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />Juanita McCoy (former MAHT Board member & inspirational singer)<br /><br /><br /></span></span><br /></font><br /></img></img></div></div></img></img></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"> <br /><img height="110" border="0" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.65" width="104" contenteditable="false" alt="25th seven" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/65.jpg?a=1102508167509" align="left"><br /><br /><br /><font size="1"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">John Ward (Mishawum Park, Charlestown)</span></font><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><a track="on" href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1102035075033" target="_blank"><img src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/68.jpg?a=1102508167509" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.68" width="135" vspace="5" border="0" alt="25th ten" align="left" height="100" contenteditable="false" hspace="5" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><font size="1"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">William Pryor and Salea Perry (MAHT)</span></font><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a track="on" href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1102035075033" target="_blank"><img src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/61.jpg?a=1102508167509" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.61" width="144" vspace="5" border="0" alt="25th three" align="left" height="108" contenteditable="false" hspace="5" /></a><br /><br /><br /></img></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" size="1">Rosalind Dawson (St. Botolph Terrace TA)</font><br /></div><br /> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"> <font size="1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></font></span><a track="on" href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1102035075033" target="_blank"><img src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/55.jpg?a=1102508167509" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.55" width="169" vspace="5" border="0" alt="25th Ann 1" align="left" height="113" contenteditable="false" hspace="5" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><font size="1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br />Michael Kane and party goers<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></font></span><a style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;" track="on" href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1102035075033" target="_blank"><img src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/77.jpg?a=1102508167509" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.77" width="169" vspace="5" border="0" alt="25th nineteen" align="left" height="107" contenteditable="false" hspace="5" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><font size="1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br />Annette Richards (Schoolhouse 77)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></font></span><a track="on" href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1102035075033" target="_blank"><img src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs014/1102035075033/img/62.jpg?a=1102508167509" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.62" width="116" vspace="5" border="0" alt="25th Four" align="left" height="131" contenteditable="false" hspace="5" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><font size="1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></font></span><div style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: right;"> <br /></div></div><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial Narrow,Arial MT Condensed Light,sans-serif;">Mary Yeaton (Charlesbank Coop, Roxbury)</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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lobby leadership team </span>- tenant leaders from around the state
who've worked hard to re-file these bills and secure sponsors and
supporters. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px;" styleclass="style_ArticleHead"><span style="font-weight: bold;">These bills will
provide no cost tools to save affordable housing</span>: they are tools to be used at the option of
local governments and their passage is urgently needed in a time of budget crisis
and continued threats to affordable housing.</span></font> <br /></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.6667px;" styleclass="style_ArticleHead"><font size="3">_____________________________________<br /><br /><font style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" size="1">Watch for </font></font></span><font style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" size="1"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-size: 10px;" styleclass="style_ArticleHead">a separate legislative update, which will be out shortly. </span><br /></font><span><br />
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