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On a hot summer night a small group of Fordham Bedford residents met to discuss the problem of housing deterioration in their Northwest Bronx neighborhood. Bronx housing was being destroyed at an alarming pace. Thousands of homes were lost to arson and the destruction was gaining a foothold in their community.
The issues were overwhelming. The City of New York was foreclosing on buildings due to unpaid taxes. Banks refused to make new mortgages. Tenants sought relief from dangerous conditions in Bronx Housing Court and administrators were appointed by the Court to run these buildings. Owners abandoned their neglected buildings. The people who met that summer began a community response to save their homes.