We are working on a plan to convert these properties to tenant ownership.

Its journey from abandonment to tenant ownership was filled with many misfortunes and struggles, but its tempered success is among the longest-lived in New York.

If tenant ownership is to be encouraged, housing should consist of small rowhouses or bungalow courts, not large apartment blocks.

Another Matter For housing that is occupied, city policy in the past has been geared toward eventual tenant ownership.

Three years ago the building passed to tenant ownership, under the management of the Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, a nonprofit operator.

The desirability of tenant ownership is not at issue.

Moreover, tenant ownership alone cannot guarantee decent housing; a building's income must be able to support maintenance and services over time.

The coalition was asking that Freddie Mac continue a program of transferring buildings to tenant ownership and management.

There's another problem with tenant ownership.

But tenant ownership is no substitute for a real housing policy.