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NAHRO'S 1968 NATICNAL IOUSINS viORKSOOP Wlat Does Tenant Participation M2an? General Session - Friday, Noverrber 8 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. nahro Tenant Associations 1. lbw best to organize one? -by allowing anti-rx,verty agency to do it? -by oontracting with private agency to do it? -by hiring staff to do it? 2. ~ t ~ of paid v.0rker can best . help? -a professional social v.0rker (group v.0rker)? -an untrain:rl v.0rker hired via civil service? -a full7"tirre, paid tenant "field v.0rker" from the sane project? fran amther project? -paid by man: housing authority? anti-poverty agerq? private ageocy? 3. HcM 4. Should the :rrarl::ers get baby-sitter fee:3 paid? 5. lbw to avoid their becaning grievance procedures? should tenant association ~ s be paid? -for bus trips, picnics, arrl other social affairs -for mineograµling, p::,stage, tenant newspaper -for Qxxi Citizenship Awards, Garden Contests, etc. -how to establi sh proper grievance procedures? 6. ·7_ vllat to do as the leadership noves out of the.project? lbw to organize tenants who live on scattered sites, in leased housing, etc.? Tenant Partic ipation in M:magarent tenants to the Board of Camrissioners? 1. Narre 2• Consult with tenants r egarding: - plans f or new construction? - plans for m:rlernization arrl beautification? -decisions on rent collections , excess util i ties , evictions of inadequate families, social services, p::,lice relations, etc . ? Tenant Participation in Maintenance 1. Hire tenants as janitors? Hire one family in each s ~ l l to lock up at night, l et latecarers in, clean hallways, etc . ? 2 • Hire tenants to v.0rk on grourrls? 3. lbw to cloose the tenants to be hired - use civil service procedures or contract with anti-rx,verty agency or private agency? '- �