Thirty years after its founding in 1973, the city courts in New York by the Board (UHAB) is at a crossroads. Non-profit, church organizations, which have long provided assistance to tenants to repair abandoned properties and turning them into cooperatives, UHAB was under pressure to adapt to the changing business environment, and the amount of tax rule, the city-owned properties have decreased in the resurgent city of New York. Moreover, UHAB, headed by the same executive director for more than 20 years, has faced tension between the idealistic, semi-personnel needs and requirements of government contracts with the requirements of the specific tasks to be completed in significantly cost effective way. As UHAB is in its fourth decade, the new chief operating officer to decide their policy and management tasks, such that his idealism and individualism can happily coexist with business practices. HKS Case Number 1711.0 "Hide
by Chris Berdik, Christine W. Letts 24 pages. Publication Date: 01 Oct 2003. Prod. #: HKS398-PDF-ENG
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