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June 29. 1980 BAZ PAGE 41 Values in the cities mount From Page 33 schooling. "Other factors which helped prepare a revitalizing generation are a revival of interest in historic structures and of nostalgia for departed lifestyles. (Victorian, which once was a kind of synonym for ugly, now has a connotation of charming.) And I new ethic of conservation and of commitment to the city and its diversity and its cultural amenities. "This suggests there will be a growing market for city property even if the spur of suburban inflation is withdrawn." Revltalkation, says the study, usually begins in neighborhoods with housing of special charm or historic interest or with elegant details: Federal houses in Balti more, twin houses in Philadelphia, brownstones in New York, Victorian triple-deckers in Boston, carpenter's Gothic in prairie houses In Houston, Denver-square houses in Denver, Renaissance Victorian in San Francisco.

Or where there are very large old houses and former mansions, as in Chicago's Lincoln Park or Dallas' Swiss Avenue historic district or in the various Capitol Hills In Washington, Denver and Seattle. In the eastern cities, many of these neighbor- hoods were pretty far gone in blight, with some abandonment' vacant and vandalized houses and houses being torn down for parking lots. This was less the case in other regions. S.F, Sunday Examiner Chronicle 1 1 "1 lJ 1, i a mm wsoto Mw mi Mary and Stanley McKlnley ttudy models Owners build in test project i itm ii i 1 1 mi mi Fairway estate homes in Rchnert Park The McKlnley family of Oakland is one of seven slated for a construction loan of to participate In the Owner-Built Housing Proeram of Oakland Neighborhood Housing Services (ONUS). ONUS'S Owner-Built Housing Program is a national demonstration project for 14 families which will jointly construct homes they will buy with conventional financing on surplus lois which have been vacant from four to five years.

The sites are purchased from the City of Oakland for $3,000 each. Participants will Join In two groups of seven families and work in groups on the houses. "This project sponsored by ONUS in cooperation with Oakland and Fidelity Savings and Loan Association is an exciting and innovative program for our community," says A. C. Meyer Fidelity's president.

He says Fidelity tailored the financing for moderate Income families. The lot where the McKinley family plans to build their home Is on Avenue, between E. 14th and Holly Streets, In East Oakland. The family will be trained in coastruction techniques and supervised by professional construction personnel and is obligated to provide 40 family hours of lalxr each week on the construction of their home. Highly technical and most finish work will be subcontracted.

One of 180 applicants bidding for the opportunity, the McKinley family plans to liegin coastruction of their home on June 21, Both Mary and Stanley McKinley plan to work on their home. "We learned of the Program from a newspaper article and we were excited about the possibility of owning our own home and building It," says Mrs. McKlnley. She adds "I'm looking forward to learning new skills and a trade." Recalling childhood memories of barn raising in his native, Florida, ith which Mr. McKinley compared the Program, he 6tated, "Everyone chipped in to help neighbors.

I'll be most excited when the Job is finished. I want to get It underway." The McKlnley's two children, daughter, Oneisha, 7, and son, Montlse, 5, share In their parents' enthusiasm. Construction equipment and workmen at the site are doing land Improvements, putting In sewers and utility lines. Architects at the University of California, Berkeley, have contributed the beginning design stages of the project and made the model used in the presentation to the City of Oakland. The actual three-bedroom, two-bath homes to be built were designed by Architect Richard McCarty of Morro Bay who planned homes for a similar self-help housing project in San Luis Obispo through the VS.

Department of Agriculture as a rural program. It has taken a year to develop the project, arrange for the money and obtain the lots, according to Grace Moy, loan counselor for the program. The construction of the first seven homes is expected to take about 10 months. Rev. Edgar Haas, board chairman of ONUS says, "This is an opportunity to reinstate confidence among residents who see the joint effort between the neighborhood, the lending institutions, and the City resulting in a revitaliation of the physical, human and spiritual resources in their city." from $33,000 to 111,500.

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