New South Side Housing Corporation Will Meet Dec. 16

NEW SOUTH SIDE HOUSING CORPORATION WILL MEET DEC. 16

     COLUMBUS -- The Board of Trustees of the newly established
South Side Housing Development Corporation will hold its first
meeting on Friday, Dec. 16, at 10 a.m. at South Side Settlement
House, 310 Innis Ave.

     The corporation's purpose is to help residents of the south
side of Columbus, who are living below the poverty line, become
homeowners.

     The meeting of the Board of Trustees is open to the public.
People are welcome to attend the meeting and become members of
the corporation.

     The corporation was established with the assistance of the
Interprofessional Commission of Ohio at The Ohio State
University.  The commission has been working with people from the
south side for about two years to develop means by which the
number of persons who become homeless and who live in that area
of the city could be reduced.

     The Interprofessional Commission of Ohio is a cooperative
program of eight human service professions which seeks to improve
services for citizens in Ohio through education and program
development.  Based at Ohio State, the commission is composed of
representatives of associations and academic units from the
professions of allied health, education, law, medicine, nursing,
psychology, social work, and theology.

     The housing corporation's charter establishes a nine-member
Board of Trustees, which includes a minimum of five community
residents.  Membership in the corporation must be at least 50
percent low income residents of the south side.

     The initial Board of Trustees was elected at the housing
corporation's first meeting Nov. 12.  Elected were: Bill Baker,
Becky Flemister, Michelle Hogan, Dolis Manning and Beatrice
Williams, all residents of the south side; Jim Bosveld, a
paralegal for the Legal Aid Society of Columbus; William Casto, a
professor at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio; Randy
Bowman, a staff member of South Side Settlement House; and Carol
Aniolkowski, a former social work intern at South Side Settlement
House and currently a staff member at Amethyst House, a
residential facility for battered women.

     The membership also elected the Rev. Van Bogard Dunn
posthumously as a trustee.  Dunn, who was a consultant and
founder of the Interprofessional Commission of Ohio, died Nov. 7.
He was active in the planning for the housing corporation.

     The trustees then elected the founding officers of the
corporation.  They are Beatrice Williams, chairperson; Dolis
Manning, vice chairperson; Becky Flemister, secretary; and Bill
Baker, treasurer.

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For more information, contact William Casto at 369-5311.


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