University Daily Kansan
Thursday, January 31, 1974
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East Side Landlord, City Officials At Odds Over Condemned Houses
By LINDA WEINSTEIN Kansan Staff Reporter
An 84-year-old man stood on a ladder pulling shingles off a dilapidated house he owned—a house he thought should have been repaired, not condemned.
Within the last three years, Harry A. Puckett, an eastLawrence houseboat owners he owned, demanded the demand of city officials. Puckett said the city had torn down four others in the
"The city lied about the conditions—unsantitiy and unhealthy—everything that they could think of to get the houses torn down." Puckett said Tuesday.
'Every one of them could have been repaired,' he said. 'I just have these cases for the target or target of a project.'
Packett said the city had torn down over two houses in east Lawrence within the last decade.
"All the houses could have been rehabilitated," he said.
Puckett has a plan.
PUCKETT SAID HE THREAD very few houses were behind a repairable stage and he has been trying to arrange a meeting of neighbors. He said he attented the condemning of houses in the vicinity.
"I'm suggesting to the east Lawrence people that they turn down help from the government and do it (rehabilitation) on their own. People can't afford to do the work the city wants. It (the city) wants all the benefits by $10 or $14-auctioned people."
Puckett said he would help the east Lawrence people repair their own houses. He said he had learned all the crafts needed to repair houses.
"I can do a passable job at anything that has to do with a house," he said, "and I've never charged more than $2 an hour for my work."
ROBERT STILL, assistant director of Lawrence urban renewal, said that because of age, Puckett'd been able to keep up with necessary repairs on his own houses.
"He just can't physically do it anymore," he said. "Harry's being use as a symbol by the world."
still said that people would look at the condition of their houses and say, 'Well, it all looks good.'
Buford Watson, Lawrence city manager, said Puckett didn't think there should be
"Harry has the tendency to try to
rehabilitate things on Harry's standards",
Ecowing, city minimum housing inspector,
said yesterday. "On this so-called
Puckett plan, he's trying to set up things to help himself."
"Harry wants to set standards for just east Lawrence," he said. "Another thing, Harry greatly misunderstands to what point a house can be rehabilitated. There's a certain point on any kind of structure where it's monetarily unfeasible to rehabilitate."
STILL SAID THE city wasn't trying to discredit Puckett.
"We listen to him and we're planning to continue to listen to him because he's got a talent."
Puckett owns a house at 1032 New York St. The house looks fairly kempt from the outside. However, according to Covington, he has been drinking too much sewer water, there are exposed wires and poor sanitary conditions throughout the house and flames leep from small, open gas
His house at 81 Garfield St. has a slouched porch, an old mattress in the yard, a screen door hung on one hinge and a dirty interior. Covington said he talked to Pucket about it two and one-half months ago but Puckett didn't touched it vet.
At 1228 Haskell Ave., he owns an old abandoned house. Broken windows on the front and boards piled next to the house give it a haunted look.
"GIVE YOU HIM six months to tear it down," Covington said. "In six months it'll be ruined."
"There are kids in the neighborhood, act of them. One of them's going to get in a fight."
Puckett said he thought the city was unfair because they didn't give him enough time to tear down his condemned houses and to make necessary repairs on others.
"The city started work on Massachusetts Street nearly two years ago and didn't work in bad weather, but they didn't want to give me the same thing (extra time)," he said.
"You could say, in a sense, that Harry's been ripped off a few times," Covington said, "but that's not to say he hasn't had it coming.
"I love the old dude, but a lot of things I have to do to the old dude. I have to do. I have to separate my work from my own feelings."
Puckett recalled his youth on a Wakarusa farm.
"MY FATHER LOST his eyesight when I was young, so I had to learn to work and take care of the stock from other people instead of my own father," he said. "I made up my mind when I was 15 that I would make good."
the only other formal education he received at the Lawrence Business College in 1811.
Puckett completed elementary school and
Puckett said he economized and left luxuries alone.
"That's how I made good," he said.
Puckett he entered the real estate business during World War II.
"I helped finance others. I could finance three places for $1,000 at that time."
"I saved my earnings and during the Second World War, I started helping other people get homes," he said. "I borrowed $50,000 from a bank to buy bought places that were sold at tax sales."
"I gave people a better deal than they did," she added, and helped them build the oblaces up if they were not.
Puckett said he wasn't sure when he'd retire.
"I guess when I can't do anything anymore," he said. "As long as people need work done and I can do it, I'll accommodate them."
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