Wednesday, August 10, 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Wensdy. Agst1, 97.H.MCIGNDL..g Fv Federal funds help upgrade city homes (Cottnued from Page1) Administration, through Hous- half," he noted. "The Building ing and' Urban Development Department has been put on Secretary Juanita Kreps, has notice and they haven't been devised a new formula for fed- pushing people on code viola- eral revenue sharing that heav- tions until the program gets off ily weighs funds to larger cities, the ground, like Detroit. Because we currently have The Housing Rehabilitation B50 applications, I don't think progran seeks to achieve hous- A's a just thing to do to peo- vide forge compliance and pro- ple. to tell them there's money of substandard housing in cer- there, when we still haven't tain designated sections of the cleared the backlog," Tillman city. Those sections are called sain. the Community Development Another problem affecting Area, which is roughly bounded the Community Development by Stadium on the south, State Housing Rehabilitation Pro- St. on the east, Fuller and Sun- gram as well as all of the oth- set on the north, and Seventh on er Community Development the west. Exceptions to this proects is the dwindling supply block have been made to in- of CDBG funds from Washing- clude outlying "pockets of pov- ton. The city received $2.4 mil- erty" and publie housing areas. lion in CDBG funds for the first The program hopes to achieve two years of the program, but the rehabilitation of substand- this year the total dropped to ard housing through a financial $2.38 million. Next year, the assistance program of loans figure will be $1.9 million, with and grants to low and moderate similar declines anticipated for income families who are own- the fifth and sixth years. ers of one or two family resi- IN ADDITION, THE Carter dences. THERE ARE three types of financial assistance presently available to eligible homeown- ers: * Grants, up to $7,500, for howeowners with very low in- comes. * Deferred payment loans, which are paid back at the time the owner transfers the title and bear no interest. This loan is available to elderly homeowners who have very low incomes. * Low interest loans, which carry a three per cent interest rate at a 20 year term of pay- ment, for low income howeown- ers. At this rate and term, the homeowner would pay $5.55 per month for each $1,000 borrow- ed. Traditional home improve- ment loans from commercial lending institutions can cost up to $13.14 per month for each $1,000 borrowed. In addition, moderate interest loans, which carry between six and seven per cent interest, may be available to homeown- ers with moderate incomes by- the end of this year. Besides helping homeowners bring their residences up to par with city code specifications, the loans and grants can be used to put the property in good and maintainable condition with necessary facilities in working order. The money can be used to install building equipment such as smoke detectors or garbage disposals, for energy conservation measures, exter- ior painting, landscaping and site repairs, improvements for the physically. handicapped, building permits and related fees and loan processing costs. UP TO 40 PER cent of the loan and grant amount may also be spent on general im- provements items such as en- largements, additions, remod- eling or renovations. Program applicants are first screened to see if they meet minimum qualifications for the program - if they reside in the CDBG target area and if their income meets require- ments set forth by BUD. Re- cently, exceptions have been made to provide rehabilitation assistance to homeowners who qualify financially for loans or grants, but live outside the tar- get area. Councilperson Louis Belcher (R.-Fifth Ward) af- fected this change by sponsor- ing a resolution at a recent City Council meeting. Although most of the rehabili- tation work is done by private constractors, Tillman said some exceptions can be made to allow the individual home- owners to do the work. "We call it sweat equity," explained Tillman. "Some peo- pie have their own skills, and although it takes more of our time, we try to work as closely to these homeowners as possi- ble, because it stretches out dollars." Sweat equity has recently been -productive in New York City, where housing rehabili- tations have been carried out by inner city residents. This development has been monitor- ed by housing experts nation- wide who consider such efforts a means of developing a sense of purpose and community in peonle who have had difficulty achieving these goals in the past. This game is always ready BILLIARDS at the Union NE can v with time cordi yeste Th empl ly sir Ni ra Report says workers unhappy with jobs W YORK (p)-More Ameri- of current clerical employes are they may be working less, enjoy- "TOO OFTEN employes are a w o r k e r a are dissatisfied unhappy with the work they do. met-it would seem-is down." neglected corporate resource," their jobs now than at any Figures for clerical workers be- Among the other finds of the said O'Neill. "Not only are your in the past 25 years, ac- tween 1952 and 1959 showed only poll, released here at an em- employes important to the day- ng to a survey released 24 per cent of those workers ploye-employer relations semi- to-day functioning and future rday. were unhappy. narr were: growth of your company, but e poll, which has questioned ACCORDING to the current . The number of manage- your employes can play a very oyes of 159 companies year- poll by the Opinion Research ment employes perceiving im- useful role as company ambas- ace 1952, found 32 per cent Corp. of Princeton, N.J., 38 per provement in their 'companies sadors in their communities. cent of the employes paid on an has been steadily decreasing hourly basis dislike their jobs, over the last 17 years. "But first you must under- p up from the 31 per cent tallied * Only 17 per cent of clerical stand y o u r employes - their i on t pes when the survey began. and hourly employes and 45 per needs, expectations, knowledge, But there is a large gap be- cent of managers currently feel misconceptions. Only then, will tween the feelings of 6,500 man- that employes are dealt with you be ina position totmaximize agers and 62,000 workers at fairly. their productivity oth on nd ager level s in businesses For " L th third of hour= off the job. * ~ to Natilonal Archives WASHINGTON (P - Richard Nixon's presidential tapes and papers left the White House complex yesterday on the third anniversary of his resignation.' They had been boxed and readied for shipment d u r i n g Nixon's last days in office, but court orders and battles over their possession kept them in a basement room of the Execu- tive Office Building, next door to the White House. THE SUPREME Court ended the fight six weeks ago by awarding custody to the govern- ment. So, instead of being sent to Richard Nixon, San Clemente, Calif., the materials were truck- ed 10 blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue to the National Ar- chives. Included in i h e shipments were papers of Nixon and his senior advisers, Nixon's national security files and the tapes, Less sensitive Nixon materials -administrative fi 1 e s, public opinion mail, audio-visual rec- ords and gifts-were transferred to the Government Services Ad- ministration (GSA) facility at Suitland, Md., more than a year ago- ARCHIVISTS will begin imme- diately to sort through the mate- rials to determine which will be made public under the law up- held June 28 by the Supreme Court. Papers and tapes involv- ing Watergate will be processed first. If no further law snits inter= ene, the GSA estimates the first portions of the materials will be available to researchers in a year. instance, 91 per cent of the managers surveyed said they were satisfied with their work. That percentage has stayed relatively constant since 1952. According to Harry O'Neill, executive vice president of Opin- ion Research, "over the years, the conditions of work that are most obvious to the casual ob- server have improved: shorter hours, better pay, better bene- fits. "YOU WOULD think that peo- -ple are working less and should be enjoying it more. But while w ess an one-tnr or tu ly employes and one-third of clerical employes believe that their company does a good job of letting them know what's go- ing on in the firm. * Sixty-nine per cent of man- agers, 66. per cent of clerical workers and 50 per cent of hour- ly workers rate their pay satis- factory. All percentages are well above previous ratings. 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