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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . Some 200 families have already taken the bait and are standing in line to buy the dilapidated, boarded-up buildings abandoned 12 years ago by terrified residents. One of the houses soon to be reinhabited is the former home of Jon Kenny, a child who died in 1978 at age seven, despite a history of apparent good health, after he played in heavily-contaminated Black Creek, which bordered his back yard. Black Creek has since been dredged to remove the worst contamination, but the house itself stands as it did 12 years ago, its basement still embedded in the same contaminated ground, a boarded-up symbol of sickness, death and unregenerate corporate crime. Apparently, the nation's housing shortage is so urgent that young families desperate for a home will settle almost anywhere, even next to the notorious Love Canal, where the New York State Health Department found birth defects and miscarriages occurring at twice the national average 12 years ago.