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after several months of periodic picketing tenants withholding their rent and a series of heated meetings with city officials, Hunters Point finally launched its unique renovating campaign today, unique because the half million dollar program will not only revamp these old wartime housing units, which tenants say had

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become uninhabitable, But requires that wherever possible, unemployed residents of the area will be put to work in the project, Thomas Mellon, the city's chief administrative officer representing the mayor, praised the program. Many of the residents who came to hear him have lived in Hunter's point since

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the early 1940s, when the units were built as temporary housing for shipyard workers to last only until the end of World War Two. The project is the result of joint efforts by the city and several 100 point tenants organizations and will last about six months. What

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you see here represents the joint actions of the san Francisco housing authority working with the various tenant groups. It also represents the concern of Mayor john Shelley, As well as the generosity of the Board of Supervisors who contributed $350,000 for this renovation along with $150,000 contributed

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by the Housing Authority. I understand the work will be done in two phases. Could you describe that for us? Well, number one, we're beginning today, the work on the outside of the buildings which has to do with painting and glazing and other necessary external repairs. Uh

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Then the second phase will be the inside of the various units in which working with the tenants and others. Uh We will be putting in sinks and various other things which will be needed on the inside of the houses. This renovating job like the housing itself

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is meant to be only a temporary thing. An effort to make Hunters point Holmes livable for the three or so years. They will have to remain here. The cities redevelopment agency plans major rehabilitation of this area by 1970. Ben Williams K. P. Ax News at Hunter's

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Point