(1) WHEREAS the Resident Council of Allen Parkway Village has adopted a comprehensive program of redevelopment, which is known as the Allen Parkway Community Campus concept, and (2) WHEREAS the principles of the Allen Parkway Community Campus concept and the participation of Residents of Allen Parkway Village as equal partners in its planning and implementation were endorsed by Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, on March 22 and May 20, 1994, and (3) WHEREAS, the Allen Parkway Community Campus concept is a model for low-income public housing that incorporates health, educational, and social services, job training, skills development, family support programs, historic preservation, and a sustainable living environment for a socioeconomically, generationally, and ethnically diverse community, and (4) WHEREAS the Allen Parkway Community Campus will entail the construction of new, compatibly designed, low-income replacement housing in the Freedmen's Town Historic District/Fourth Ward neighborhood, in addition to the rehabilitation of apartment units at Allen Parkway Village, and (5) WHEREAS the Allen Parkway Community Campus is based on the principles of Resident Management and Resident Leadership, and (6) WHEREAS the Allen Parkway Community Campus is a responsible alternative to the persistent mismanagement of the Allen Parkway Village by the Housing Authority of the City of Houston, and (7) WHEREAS the Allen Parkway Community Campus is a highly desirable alternative to the plan of the Housing Authority of the City of Houston to demolish 677-850 of the 1,000 apartments at Allen Parkway Village and replace them with only 350-500 "affordable" townhouses, therefore be it (1) RESOLVED that this organization endorses the Allen Parkway Community Campus concept, and (2) RESOLVED that this organization endorses Resident Management of the Allen Parkway Community Campus and Resident Leadership in planning for its implementation, and (3) RESOLVED that this organization opposes the demolition of buildings at Allen Parkway Village and dispersal of low-income families in scattered sites and Section 8 housing far from the historic center of Houston's African-American community in Freedmen's Town/Fourth Ward.
E N D O R S E M E N T S include:
* Ivory Mayhorn, Executive Director, Launch Point Center * Emily Nghiem, Secretary, Fourth Ward Health and Educational Center for Youth, Inc. (Member, Harris County Historical Commission) * TO ADD YOUR NAME, please mail, fax, or e-mail the following information: NAME: _____________________________________________ TITLE: ____________________________________________ ORGANIZATION: _____________________________________ DATE: _____________ TELEPHONE: ____________________ E-MAIL: ___________________________________________ * Resident Council of Allen Parkway Village * P.O. Box 21371 Houston, Texas 77226 (713)228-2109 fax: 229-8580 e-mail: apv1@ev1.net
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