Lure Workers to Public Housing

When housing experts discuss ways to upgrade public housing,attracting and keeping working people as tenants is always high onthe list.

They know that an economic mix is good for a neighborhood. Andthey know that children need role models who have jobs.

The proposed 1993 Housing Act, which will be presented tolawmakers when they return to Washington next month, would do much torestore economic integration in public housing across the UnitedStates.

The bill would give public housing tenants who find work an18-month grace period before their rent increases, and …