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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.

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…

NECAP causes landlords to lose his tenants due to rent strikes. Some tenants preffered moving over getting involved with NECAP, the landlord's lawyer spoke. The rent strike, that had previously ended, made the landlord agree to make repairs in the…

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…

The HHA decided to stick with their business of running their rental properties and declined the opportunity to be in a program focused on halting the spread of segregated housing in the north end. Percival C. Smith, HHA Chairman. Commissioner Graham…

The Hartford Housing Authority approved a project that focused on the medical and health needs of elderly people living in the charter Oak terrace project. The program starts March 1 and will work with the Hartford Health Department and various…

Rent strikes that took place in Harlem, NYC have begun to have their effects here in Hartford; NECAP members have sent representatives to study the "HARLEM PLAN" that virtually legalizes rent strikes. The public is tired of lousy landlords and poor…

The Connecticut Housing Investment Fund emphasizes that reinvestment in urban neighborhoods can occur without displacing long-term residents. Planners are actively devising strategies for development that aim to preserve both ethnic and economic…

Tenants at the Linden Building, represented by Vecino Unidos, raise a banner declaring a "Displacement Revolution" to highlight their resistance against eviction. The group is demanding repairs for their apartments as part of their advocacy efforts.

Community residents are drafting zone change ordinances to transition from commercial to residential zoning, aiming to preserve the absent residential characteristics of the community.