Hi All Last Thursday, Julz Brown and I met over lunch to discuss the next step for the CUF committee for home ownership. Below is a brief summary of what we discussed: * Julz is willing to continue producing the monthly email which links to a listing of available properties in CUF. * Julz laid out a strategy for our immediate effort: * For the short term, identify areas of CUF with the greatest potential for increased home ownership. * Identify properties in need of renovation that could most easily be turned into owner occupied residences. * Use personal contacts, CUF, CHIA, and UHNA as networks to locate and identify potential homesteaders (people who would renovate and live in these houses), and investors willing to renovate and sell homes as owner occupied residences * Action Items: * By the end of September, Julz will attempt to put together a list of target properties, and for each property, the reasons an investor would be interested in it. * Daniel will distribute this list over the UHNA email network, present it to CUF, and ask CHIA the list over their email network. * Daniel mentioned that issues affecting long-term marketability such as schools, litter, blight, the perception of crime, etc. should be identified and addressed, but it was decided that these issues were beyond the immediate scope of this committee. If we tried to address too much, we would end up addressing nothing. Daniel F. Lewis