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Los Sures Southside United Housing Development Fund Corporation Records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 43

Scope and Contents

The Los Sures Collection (Southside United Housing Development Fund Corporation) consists of newsletters, commemorative journals, a 1981-1982 report, invitations and flyers for events, and a T-shirt from the community organization, which is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and is dedicated to improving the quality of life of the community.

Dates

  • Creation: 1982-1997

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Open to researchers without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright holder is unknown.

Biographical / Historical

Los Sures is a pioneer in both the management and development of low-income housing in Brooklyn, New York.

Los Sures undertook the daunting task of rebuilding its community, the southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The community residents who started the organization were responding to an epidemic of landlord abandonment, withdrawal of city services and illegal evictions by landlords. Illegal evictions included some property owners who were trying to vacate their buildings in order to change the ethnic composition of the neighborhood. Los Sures fought back by promoting community-based control of housing, through both management and ownership. In 1975, Los Sures became the first community-based organization to enter into agreements to manage City-owned properties. A few years later, it was one of the first groups to undertake large-scale rehabilitation. The organization remains committed to its founders' mission: to create a growing and satisfying community in the building of a more humane environment.

Source: http://www.lossures.org/

Extent

0.2 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Spanish; Castilian

Abstract

The Los Sures Collection (Southside United Housing Development Fund Corporation) consists of newsletters, commemorative journals, a 1981-1982 report, invitations and flyers for events, and a T-shirt from the community organization, which is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and is dedicated to improving the quality of life of the community.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Unknown.

Processing Information

Processed by Pedro Juan Hernandez.

Title
Los Sures Southside United Housing Development Fund Corporation Records
Status
Completed
Author
Pedro Juan Hernandez
Date
2020
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Revision Statements

  • 2022: Revised by Susan M. Kline

Repository Details

Part of the Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Repository

Contact:
Silberman Building, Hunter College
2180 Third Ave. Rm. 122
New York New York 10065




About the Collections

Our collections consist of personal papers from prominent Puerto Rican artists, elected officials, social activists, writers, as well as the records of community-based organizations. Our largest collection, the Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS) Records, measures approximately 2,900 cubic feet and contains an extraordinary amount of information regarding Puerto Rican migrants and the government institutions established to assist them. The collections date from the 1890s to the present, and document Puerto Rican communities in the Northeast, Midwest, Florida, California and Hawaii.