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GRANT Jrompagt A1 through the HOPE VI program. "It'd be nice if everyone who ?applied for the grant got the <money," said Milligan in a phone 'interview. A housing authority's chances depend heavily on com mitments from its city and local businesses. I Winston-Salem has already - invested about S9 million into the -target area, Kimberly Park Terrace, and HAWS project coor dinator Evelyn Terry said that about SO businesses, organiza tions and institutions have pledged support if the grant, esti mated at $30 million, is awarded. The money would go toward rehabilitating Kimberly Park's SS6 units and the surrounding neighborhood. Tampa is applying for $35 mil lion, to renovate its 700-unit Ponce de Leon and 710-unit College Hill housing communi ties. Work has already been start ing in the area, which was designated an "enterprise com munity" and awarded S3 million in federal money. Existing small businesses have been renovated, and job development and social programs established. "I feel pretty good (about THA's chances)," said Milligan. Tampa's enterprise communi ty designation could give its housing authority an edge. Winston-Salem also applied for the enterprise community pro gram in 1993, but did not receive the funding. If Kimberly Park is awarded the HOPE grant, HAWS plans to double the size of each unit and create a duplex look in the build ings. Milligan's housing authority has lined up blueprints for single family homes. The grants will be announced by the latter part of September. About 20,000 people live in Tampa's public housing; HAWS is about one-fourth that size. Both Milligan and his HAWS replacement, Marie Roseboro, stress the importance of home ownership, which follows the sen timent of Chris Hornig, HUD's deputy assistant secretary for public housing investments. "We're not trying to replace bad projects with good projects," Hornig was quoted as saying in a Florida daily paper. "We're try ing to get rid of the idea of pro jects." Guiding long-term tenants into home ownership programs was the first goal Roseboro set as HAWS director. In his Tampa position, Milligan has initiated a program that allows the housing authority to act as a developer and turn former projects into affordable housing. If HUD gives the go-ahead, THA will replace the 70 con demned units of the dilapidated Moses White Estates with 40 to 45 private single-family homes. A private partner would be con tracted to sell the properties. "1 cannot take the credit for the idea. This was something already in the works," Milligan told the Florida Sentinel Bulletin. But THA residents and administrators credit Milligan with the initiative to get the pro gram off the ground. People elsewhere have taken note of Milligan. Housing authorities in Detroit, New Orleans, Tucson, and Jacksonville and Orlando, Fla. have contacted Milligan, interest ed in the programs he has devel oped. "What he's doing is exactly what he needs to do," said Wells. Milligan said that he expected an answer from HUD on the Moses White project before the end of the week. Milligan's attempts to auton omize Tampa's housing budget are already well-known. Since he took on the job, management teams have tackled and driven down unpaid rent balances. All but two or three of the housing authority's IS properties have a zero balance due on rent, said Wells. Milligan said his memories of Winston are fond, but "you can't get hung up in the past." "I wish Marie a lot of luck in her new position. If she gets proper support from people in Winston, she'll do well," he said. Rose bo ro could be reached for comment by press time. HISTORY from page AJ He bought the Post in 1974 and set a standard for publishing fol lowed by African-American papers nationwide. ; - The North Carolina Black Publishers' Association is one of . the few African-American state press organizations in the coun try. Founded in 1974 by the pub lishers named above, Pitt and Carolina Peacemaker publisher John Marshall Kilimanjaro, the association's 11 papers have a combined readership of over 250,000. Austin's Carolina Times is the oldest paper still published in the state. It was founded in 1921. North Carolina is also home to the second-oldest continuous ly published black newspaper in the nation, the Charlotte-based Star of Zion. The paper, affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, was established in 1867. In this century, about 1,500 African-American newspapers began publication. Fewer than 200 have survived. Almost all of those papers still publishing belong to the National Newspaper Publishers Associ ation. The NNPA, formerly known as the National Negro Publishers Association, was recreated in 1978. Dorothy Leavell, owner/publisher of the New Chicago Crusader and the Gary (Ind.) Crusader, serves as NNPA president. 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