He is also a major figure in the Nehemiah program, an interchurch effort to build housing for people with moderate incomes.

Mr. Lopez said the Nehemiah program required large tracks of vacant land, which were unavailable in Bushwick.

These efforts come on top of many additional difficulties in transferring the production concepts of the Nehemiah program to the South Bronx.

That has not hastened the arrival of a Nehemiah program in the South Bronx.

The late I.D. Robbins was supervising construction for the Nehemiah program at that time.

At about the same time, East Brooklyn Congregations was starting its Nehemiah program.

The other, the Nehemiah program of two-story, single-family homes, has revived devastated neighborhoods.

Mr. Hatzis, in the Bronx, will find a neighborhood with a substantial housing build-up thanks to the Nehemiah program.

The Nehemiah program relies on the city and state only to provide subsidies and low-interest mortgages and to condemn and clear property.

He would not speak specifically about the Nehemiah program.