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Description

1. 8 linear ft. (7 record cartons, 1 cardfile box)

Summary

1. The Action for Community Empowerment Records, 1987-2001, contain information regarding ACE's efforts in the late 1980s to organize tenants of the Martinique and the Prince Georges hotels, two low income housing developments. The bulk of the collection, however, deals with ACE's efforts to improve housing and organize tenants in Central Harlem from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

Subject

1. Social service > New York (State) > New York
2. Human services > New York (State) > New York
3. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Economic conditions
4. Tenants' associations > New York (State) > New York
5. New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions
6. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions
7. Public welfare > New York (State) > New York
8. Action for Community Empowerment (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
9. Rent subsidies > New York (State) > New York
10. New York (N.Y.) > Department of Housing Preservation and Development
11. Housing > New York (State) > New York

Call number

1. Sc MG 779

Access (note)

1. Box 7 is restricted due to privacy issues.

Source (note)

1. Jacqueline Mason-Francis

Biography (note)

1. Action for Community Empowerment (ACE) was a grassroots community development non-profit organization based in Central Harlem dedicated to decent housing, safe neighborhoods and tenant empowerment. ACE, formerly known as the Hotel Tenants Rights Project, was formed in 1987 by the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ in an attempt to organize the tenants of various government-subsidized affordable housing buildings ("welfare hotels") in Manhattan.

Author

1. Action for Community Empowerment (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)

Title

1. Action for Community Empowerment records, 1987-2001.

Access

1. Box 7 is restricted due to privacy issues.

Biography

1. Action for Community Empowerment (ACE) was a grassroots community development non-profit organization based in Central Harlem dedicated to decent housing, safe neighborhoods and tenant empowerment. ACE, formerly known as the Hotel Tenants Rights Project, was formed in 1987 by the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ in an attempt to organize the tenants of various government-subsidized affordable housing buildings ("welfare hotels") in Manhattan.

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Research call number

1. Sc MG 779