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"Give us the money that is now being spent in Bromley-Heath and we will do the job that is not being done and that needs to be done."
With these words, Thomas Weeks announced last week that the Tenant Management Corp. (TMC) of the Bromley-Heath Housing Project in Jamaica Plain is officially in business -- initially to maintain ten of the 34 buildings in Bromley-Heath, a task which has been the responsibility of the Boston Housing Authority.
Weeks is the salaried executive director of the TMC and has 11 full- and part-time staff members.
Bromley-Heath is the third largest public housing project operated by the BHA, with 1200 units -- 1000 of which are occupied.
The TMC has just been legally incorporated and will eventually take over the complete management of Bromley-Heath, the first public housing project in the country that will be fully controlled by its tenants.
This action was made possible by a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity to the BHA three years ago for a tenant management demonstration program. Grants were also made to housing authorities in Baltimore and Gulfport, Miss., but Boston's is the first which has resulted in an incorporated tenant body.
The BHA offered the money to the Columbia Point Housing Project but the residents there voted down the offer. Bromley, Heath...