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Guide to the Metropolitan Council on Housing Records TAM.173

Series I: Administrative Files, 1957-1992, inclusive

Language of Materials

English.

Extent

9 Linear Feet

Scope and Content Note

This series includes executive board minutes, documents relating to MCH's workshops, its annual assemblies and conferences, and to the MCH Community Improvement Fund, files relating to housing code enforcement and fuel cost pass-along, and queries from tenants and tenant groups.

Anti-Eviction Committee: MCH committee, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Architects' Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH), MCH part of, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 2-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Metropolitan Council on Housing Correspondences, 1965-1966, bulk

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Assembly: MCH's annual assemblies, 1967-1988, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 5-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 69, Folder: 1-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Benedict, Jane, undated, inclusive

Box: 69, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Black Panthers: MCH's work for BPP, undated, inclusive

Box: 69, Folder: 7-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Borglum, Helen: Lawsuit: J. Benedict vs. Helen Borglum, undated, inclusive

Box: 69, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Branch Information Bulletin, undated, inclusive

Box: 69, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Brooklyn Freedom Democratic Movement: MCH's work for Major Owens' City Council campaign 1965, 1965, inclusive

Box: 70, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Build Public Housing Committee: MCH committee to get public housing built on Rupert Brewery site, 1969, inclusive

Box: 70, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cadman Plaza: MCH's work to get public housing built on Cadman Plaza site 1963, 1963, inclusive

Box: 70, Folder: 3-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Committee Against Rent Increase Pass-alongs (CARIP): MCH-initiated coalition against rent increase pass-alongs, from 1981; includes papers from lawsuit against Rent Guidelines board, 1981, inclusive

Box: 70, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Citywide Action Committee Against Homeless: MCH initiated coalition against warehousing, 1990, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The City-Wide Council For Better Housing: precursor to MCH initiated by MCH founding organizations, 1957, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

City-Wide Tenants United: MCH initiated coalition, 1976?, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Code Enforcement: MCH's work on rent increases and code enforcement, 1963-1970, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Code Enforcement: MCH's work on rent increases and code enforcement, 1963-1970, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Code Enforcement: MCH's work on rent increases and code enforcement, 1963-1970, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Code Enforcement: MCH's work on rent increases and code enforcement, 1963-1970, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Committee To Save Our City's Homes: chaired by Jane Benedict; coalition against demolition, 1962, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference: MCH's annual conferences, 1962-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference: MCH's annual conferences, 1962-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference: MCH's annual conferences, 1962-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference: MCH's annual conferences, 1962-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference: MCH's annual conferences, 1962-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference: MCH's annual conferences, 1962-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference: MCH's annual conferences, 1962-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference: MCH's annual conferences, 1962-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference: MCH's annual conferences (NOTE: there are five additional folders on annual conferences in this box), 1962-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference: MCH's annual conferences, 1961-1962, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference: MCH's annual conferences, 1961-1962, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Constitution Structure: MCH's constitution, adopted 1967, 1967, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Contracts: MCH's work on a model union-like contract for tenants, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Convention 1983: MCH's 1983 convention, 1983, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooper Square: MCH's work on alternative plan for Cooper Square site, 1965-1985, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooper Square: MCH's work on alternative plan for Cooper Square site, 1965-1985, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooper Square: MCH's work on alternative plan for Cooper Square site, 1965-1985, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooper Square Community Development Committee: MCH's 1965 annual conference on Cooper Square site, 1965, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Court Cases: Amicus brief for MCH in Park West Village Associates vs Abrams, 1985, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Courtroom Committee: List of members, 1971, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Emergency Tenants Protection Act: MCH's work around this legislation, 1974, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Emergency Tenants Protection Act: MCH's work around this legislation, 1974, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1973-1984, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1973-1984, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1973-1984, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1973-1984, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1973-1984, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1973-1984, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1973-1984, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1959-1972, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1959-1972, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1959-1972, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1959-1972, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1959-1972, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Executive Board, 1959-1972, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eyedent MCH amicus brief in demolition case, 1979, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Federation Of NY Tenant Organizations, 1971, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Flynn-Dearie, 1977-1989, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Flynn-Dearie, 1977-1989, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Flynn-Dearie, 1977-1989, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Flynn-Dearie, 1977-1989, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Flynn-Dearie, 1977-1989, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Flynn-Dearie, 1977-1989, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Flynn-Dearie, 1977-1989, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Flynn-Dearie, 1977-1989, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Flynn-Dearie, 1977-1989, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Foundation #2: Met Council Tenant Foundation, Inc, 1972, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Foundation #1: Met Council Community Improvement Fund, Inc.and Metropolitan Council Tenants Defense and Education Fund, Inc., 1966-1971, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Foundation minutes and membership, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Foundation - Decent Housing For New York's Peoplebooklet, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Foundation - Lindsey's Rent Increase Planbooklet, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fraud booklet published by MCH, 1970, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fuel Cost Passalong: MCH's work against this rent increase program, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fuel Cost Passalong: MCH's work against this rent increase program, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fuel Cost Passalong: MCH's work against this rent increase program, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fuel Cost Passalong: MCH's work against this rent increase program, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fuel Cost Passalong: MCH's work against this rent increase program, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fund-Raising: Various MCH events, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Heat (through 1981) MCH work on heat laws and enforcement, 1981, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

HRM: MCH's work against city program, 1968, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Joseph Hyler vice-chair of MCH, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Independent Action Committee - MCH involved, undated, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

IN REM Organizational MCH's in rem committee, 1979-1981, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Invitations from other institutions (speaking), undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Kleiger Decision MCH's motion to intervene - HAD vs. CHIP, 1975, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Labor Cost Repeal Law MCH as party in lawsuit via CARIP, 1978, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Labor Cost Passalong: MCH's work against this rent increase program, 1970-1975, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Labor Cost Passalong: MCH's work against this rent increase program, 1970-1975, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Labor Cost Passalong: MCH's work against this rent increase program, 1970-1975, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Labor Cost Passalong: MCH's work against this rent increase program, 1970-1975, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Law Committee, 1971, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Law suits: Various, mid-80s, MCH party in, 1980s, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Leaflet originals, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Membership, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Membership, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Membership, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Membership, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Membership Meeting, 1967, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Membership Ocean-Kings, 1973, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

MCH Community Improvement Fund, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

MCH Community Improvement Fund, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

MCH Community Improvement Fund, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

MCH Community Improvement Fund, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

MCH Community Improvement Fund, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

MCH: General Publicity, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

MCH: General Publicity, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

MCH: Evaluation, 1959-1965, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

MCH: Policy and statements, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miscellaneous Buildings, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Nominations Committee, 1983, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Nominations Committee, 1983, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Nominations, 1982, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Vici O'Mara - MCH board member, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Organizing Committee 1977-current, 1977, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Organizer, The: MCH internal newsletter, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Organizing handbook (MCH publication), 1971-1973, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Organizing handbook (MCH publication), 1971-1973, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Political Action, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

People Outraged With Energy Rates (POWER): MCH involved, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Press MCH op-eds, etc, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Public Housing Committee, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Public housing: 1967 Conference, 1967, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Public housing: Massive Public Housing, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Public housing: MCH Program, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Publicity: Clippings mentioning MCH, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Public ownership, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Queries, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Esther Rand (Memorial Meeting), undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Esther Rand, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jack Rand, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rents into Repairs (see also Foundation), undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Spanish Organizing Committee, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

William Stanley, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tenants, you are not alone, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Times Square, 1986-1992, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Times Square Hotel #1, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Times Square Hotel #2, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

25th Anniversary, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Vacant Land Survey #1, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Vacant Land Survey #2, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

WBLS- Radio, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

WBAI, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

We Won't Move Committee (102nd St.- Don Erwin et. 21), undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

What is the Metropolitan Council on Housing? And similar pamphlets, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Workshops, 1989, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Workshops, 1988, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Workshops, 1987, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Workshops, 1973, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Workshop Materials June 26, 1971-News Coverage #1, 1971, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Workshop Materials June 26, 1971- News Coverage #2, 1971, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Workshops: MCH, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Your Home Is Your Hassle, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Youth Project, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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