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‘Sell the Projects’
I couldn’t agree more with your sentiments on allowing people to own their units in housing projects [Editorial, “Sell the Projects,” October 25, 2007].
I first proposed giving the projects to the tenants in June of 2002, when I ran for the 65th Assembly District on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The tenants were all for it.
Curiously though, most other people opposed it. The conservatives did not want a giveaway that would not foster a proper appreciation of the property, and the liberals could not fathom that the tenants were responsible enough to make monthly payments.
In the end, I believe that some sort of tenant takeover is the only humane way to make the necessary upgrades to the quality and volume of our housing stock.
DAVID FRIEDMAN
New York, N.Y.
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