It is a fight that he has taken all the way to Capitol Hill. And now he is rising to another challenge. Mishawum Park will get new roofs, windows, siding, insulation, plumbing, heating systems, electric wiring, and flooring. And that's just to start. It won't be easy.
Temporary housing has to be found for displaced tenants.
It will probably take the entire summer of 1998 to complete the first phase of the repairs. But Copithorn and his fellow tenants are used to waiting. The government thought that it was a waste of good money. The grant to Mishawum Park was not only the nation's largest under Title VI this year, it was also the last. Although Congress recently shut down the program, Mishawum Park will undergo long-overdue renovation.