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The sleep-in with 200 people taking place at city hall, that was a demand for better housing, finally ends. These attempts came to an end when the city provided a written agreement promising five lease-housing rentals.

HART was beaten during the linkage tax issue during 1986, they lost a lawsuit from Hispanic members that stopped developers from improving the Frog Hollow Community and their president Ron Cretaro had left. Jackie Fongemie became the new president of…

30 African-American tenants organized rent strikes in the North End in the hope that it would improve "ghetto housing conditions". This was organized by the Black Housing League to break a cycle by applying economic pressure on landlords and the…

House Hunting: the picture shows a "sleep in" staged at city hall in efforts to get Waterbury's administration to come up with acceptable housing.

A student who visited Hartford discusses the poor living conditions he witnessed while following up on tenant complaints.

The Black Housing League whoch consists of 15 families from the North End, invites all Greater Hartford tenants to join them in a rent strike in June.The strike is to ensure that Hartford inspects all issues to ensure they are following housing…

Sixteen tenants who have not paid their rent are facing eviction. The landlord believes that NECAP has failed to live up to their agreement (checks from the State Welfare Dept. were returned to the state or held by a bondsman until the strike was…

A group working toward the formation of a Puerto Rican tenant's union in the city is currently conducting spot housing inspections in the city's Puerto Rican communities. This committee will overcome the language barrier between tenants, landlords,…

This article concerns housing inequality; the president of the Maryland Association of Real Estate Boards says that individual property owners, regardless of race, color, or creed, must be allowed under law to retain the right to determine…

Following a city inspection, a landlord was ordered to make reuired repairs in two of his buildings. The landlord appeals this order but tenant protestors demanded that the landlord makes these repairs. If the landlord does not comply, further legal…