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PAGE 13 — The Georgia Bulletin, June 20, 1985
Neighborhoods
(Continued from page 6)
but we were successful in
keeping neighborhood ser
vices up to par.”
‘‘We debunked the big
myth” that home values
would decline, he said.
“Our value stayed up, is
up. Services are good.
Schools are good.”
And at Sts. Peter and
Paul parish, there is still a
balance of black and white
families, because
parishioners made the
commitment to one
another, French said.
“Those people have really
hung in there because of
their Christian commit
ment, which is glorious.”
“We may lose yet, but by
God we sure have given it
one hell of a nice fight,” he
said. “God doesn’t say you
have to win. He does say
you have to struggle.”
Metro Fair Housing has
become the only fair hous
ing agency in Georgia,
funded by some city and
county money and by foun
dations and membership
pledges. Four full-time and
several part-time people
help families threatened
with foreclosure and com
bat, through a testing pro
gram, discriminatory
practices in renting and
selling homes throughout
Metropolitan Atlanta and
into Cobb, Gwinnett and
Cherokee counties.
French, who coordinates
the testing program, trains
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and supervises a staff of
largely volunteer testers,
who follow up on com
plaints of discrimination.
The complaints, which
may involve sex, ethnic or
religious discrimination, in
addition to racial
discrimination, are so
numerous that Metro Fair
Housing cannot keep up
with them all, French said.
The agency has developed
a strong testing program,
using two independent par
ties who visit the apart
ment house or realtor
where discrimination is
suspected. The testers
never see one another’s
reports, French said, but
he compares the two and
determines whether
discrimination is involved.
“We know what we’re do
ing,” he said. “We don’t
want to hurt the innocent.
We try to retrain the guilty.
We try to teach how not to
discriminate in the future.
It’s very simple — treat
everybody the same.”
But he is also realist
about methods that work.
“The only way to stop the
discrimination is to hurt
the discriminator in the
pocketbook. It is bound to
get their attention,” he
says. “Pleading to their
morality has not worked.
Voluntary compliance has
not worked.”
In addition, French
spends part of his time pro
moting the Fund for an
OPEN Society, which pro
vides lower interest loans
to families who are willing
to make “pro-integration
moves” into neighbor-
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thousand dollar investment
notes to people “willing to
make socially conscious in
vestments, which is what
an open mortgage is,”
French said.
A permanent deacon for
the last 2% years serving at
Sts. Peter and Paul parish,
French’s commitment in
this area has just been for
mally recognized by his
assignment as a deacon,
under the direction of
Father Jacob Bollmer of
Catholic Social Services, to
work for the advancement
of integrated housing.
The customary work of a
deacon may be to preach at
Mass and to work in the
parish, but this assignment
does not seem far afield to
French.
Expressing his deep-
seated commitment as a
“struggling Christian” to
integrated housing, he
says, “for me to just run
out of my neighborhood to
protect the value of my
home is wrong.” It is not a
Christian response to his
neighbor, French says.
“When I say stuff like
this,” he says, “I’m
preaching as much as if I
were in the pulpit on Sun
day. Sometimes I win con
verts and sometimes I
don’t. This is where the
Church belongs, with the
issues on the streets.”
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