Urban Homesteading Assistance Board Electronic Document Center
The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) promotes self-help housing and community building in low-income neighborhoods and supports the nation's largest network of resident-controlled, limited-equity housing co-operatives in New York City. UHAB works with more than 1,000 buildings in the city, the tenant leaders of which have widely varying levels of experience.
The Challenge
UHAB is charged with providing technical assistance to its network's buildings, but its paper documentation-including management agreements, building maintenance books and course catalogs-was expensive to produce and disseminate broadly. These documents were often difficult to find in different offices and buildings around the city. In addition, some of the buildings' leadership and tenants required documents in Spanish and other languages and had relatively limited English language skills.
The Contegra Solution
Contegra converted more than 2,000 paper and electronic files into a universal HTML format and created a comprehensive Web site featuring the complete collection of UHAB documents. Today, the site (www.uhab.org) is organized for easy topic identification and navigation. It boasts a comprehensive full-text and keyword search, available in both Spanish and English. Importantly, Contegra's Web solution is powerful, yet still suited for novice computer users.
Contegra's solution eliminated UHAB's paper documentation, which had been easily lost or damaged, enables tenants to locate important building information quickly and easily, and now delivers updates and new documents efficiently.
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