They are raised, one-level, ranch-style houses, stoutly suburban and freakishly out of place amid the decaying tenements and grimy rubble of New York's South Bronx. Ten have gqne up since October, and 80 more will be delivered by next fall, assembled on site at the rate of one a day. The new housing project on Charlotte Street, one of the most abject and unsavory slums in the country, was so unprecedented there that
when the first owners moved in last December, cynical neighbors called them "pioneers."
Shoe Shop Owner David Rivera, 35, and his...
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