A Rare Mix of Tenants

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A Rare Mix of Tenants

New York Times (12/28/94) P. B1
Foderaro, Lisa W.

Common Ground Community, a nonprofit housing and economic development organization, owns and manages the former Times Square Hotel in New York City. Once one of the most notorious welfare hotels, it has become a kind of social experiment where AIDS patients, formerly homeless people, mentally ill individuals, and working people all live together in the newly restored building. The two groups that provide a range of social services for the residents, Common Ground and the Center for Urban Community Services, are trying to prove that single-room-occupancy hotels can be saved, and that they can become more than dumping grounds for people with problems. While they saw the clear reasons for offering low-rent apartments to working people, they also knew the mix of tenants would be healthy for their clients. "Most of our special-needs tenants have never lived in a place where they had examples of people who got up in the morning and went to work, people whose lives functioned," said Rosanne Haggerty, executive director of Common Ground. Although the some nearby businesses initially had doubts, the plan has been enthusiastically supported. Money for social services has come from sources including the city's Division of AIDS Services, the Department of Homeless Services, and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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