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Febru{ilry 36 , 1969 E ORAND . TO : Mr . R. Earl Landers Ad ini trative Assistant Pursuant to your instructions, I met February 24 with Lester Parsells , M. B. S ttcrfield, Gilbert Boggs and Howard Grigsby of the Housing Authority and on February 25 with Bill lofford nd Jim Smith of the Building Dep rtment to insure appropriate coordination pertaining to the attached emor ndum. As a result ~ these discussions, th Housing Authority b s greed to report to the Building D partment (Housing Co4' Division) on a eekly b sis, the na s nd addresses of famili s nd individual · which they have 1 •oertified" to move into Public Housin , bee use of substandard housing conditions. This report 1 to al o inolud an ppropri te d te of anticipated ove. Upon r c ipt of this ~eport, th Building Depart ent proposos to inspect th locations involved 1thin two orking day ft r teceivlng th l"eports and to initi ta ppropri t otion bore n eess ry for co p11 no 1th the Housing Cod. (Tb only f llacy ~b t 1 c n so 1th respect to thi arr ng • nt 1s that currently th Bou ing Author1ty t k th prosp otiv t nants' or . th 't they ar · liv1u in substand :rd h u ing nd ppar ·ntly s oo v rif cation of tbi • In discus in th1 point with th! utlding D pr ent, it ppea.r th t b or c rtifin f ily to ov 1nto Public Ho iag, b cau of living in subtand rd bou ing, th f 1ly involv o boul fir t r u _st nd obtain c rtiftc~t fr _ th · Hous1.ng Cod D1vi ion th t th · udt t ub t ndard nd th n pres nt such or ific t to th Hou in uthortty.) Ill Tb Bulldi ou :lng Authority Co pllano Offic location of fa tlte port d back to f ill hie �r . R. Ea:rl Landers F bruary 26; 1969 Page 2 (The Building Department has no decided to consolidate its reports , tb1,ougb the Housing Code Division only, to the Housing Authority, and the Housing Authority has greed tor port r loc ttons b c to the Housing Code Division on a weekly basis.) The Housing Authority has request d~ and the Building Departm nt has agreed , that requests for reloc tion b more specific tbatr they have b en in th past in order to provide better understanding as to by relocation is nooessary and detei'mination as to· when it should be accomplished. · r . Satterfi ld suggested that he did not think that the Housing Authority should approach amily to provide relocation assistance until th property and the need th refor, bad bean adjudic ted by the courts; th t otherwise tb Housing Authol'lty mi ht ere t antagonism on the part of the Landlord, or disturbance of the t n nts, or both and therefore b criticized s ctin unconst:ltutionally. I pointed out that this wou:td be entirely too slo and ould not acco plish tb . de ired results and th . t such qelay is un oc table. It also developed that on the initial visit by Housing Authority Relocation ork r to f ily, th t _ pt 1s ad then nd th re to arrang for relooatton (normally bis 1s unsucoe sful). Mr . Per ells suggest d that p rh ps th first visit to the prop rty by the Housing Authority Relocation Worker should be pur ly exploratory to find out b t tb ireumstances are , 1th vie to subs quently ing staff d term1n · t1on s to ppropri t ctton hicn bould b t kn. l h rtidly gr e. Ro ev r, it w then brought out by th Hou ing Authority th t this type of . vi it is or in th tur of soci l WOl.'k and th t th Hou ing Authority mis no oc1 l ork r ; only loc tion or r . It to th t the olut1on i obviou. Th Reloeatioo Work r bould d ter in t e oci 1 o poets, p rt of th ir r loc tion lgn nt, b for th t n or th landlord r not1fl d t t r loc tion 1 nd t-0ry. If th initi 1 vi it don qu ly an on n xploratory bas1, much nxi ty nd d1 turb no on th p rt of th of the 1 dlord t · nant; and ould' b could cone iveable b nnoy nc nd hostility on th p rt nd i.n · o t inst nc th r. consid r bly r due d 11 inat d 11 to ts fr tb t if 'r that t p • ciLl d. not �r. R. Earl Landers February 26 , 1969 Page 3 The Building Department feels that these details re functions bicb could and should be determined by the Relocation orkers , s part of tbeir reloc tion assignments , using the Housing Code as a guide nd should not be expected of the Housing Code Inspectors . I m inclined to gr e with the Building_ Department in this respect, but have requeated the Building Depar·t ment in making its :requests to th~ Housing Au bority for r ·e location to be as specific as pr ctical . In general, relocation consists of two categories , i . e ., f milies living in Urban Ren al proj ects and those living outside of Urban Ree al projects . The Housing Authority is authorized to provide fin ncial relocation ssistance to f milies residin in Urban Rene al areas . These families also get number one pr iority for Public Housing . The Housing Authority claims that this presents no major proble, but that the principal delaying factor in reloc ation of fa iliea residing outside of Urb n Rene al projects is finanoial in btlity of tbe families to provide funds for drayaga , utility eter deposits and first month ' rent . Tbes families g t second priority for PubliQ Housing, if requir d to move because of Housing Code En1orcement nd third priority , if moving of tbeir own volition . However , the Housing Authority hos no funds for providing the inl;ial financial ass1stano required for th last two categories and consequently , fr uently, w ks' ands times even months elaspe b fore the f ilies involved re able to - ccu ulate enough cash ith which to meet these in1t1 l reloc tion expen s. As r sult , the Housing uthority b propo ed th t i t b p rmitted to us, s n xp riment, 2 , 000 fro r, loc ti.on funds allocated to 1t fro th - City of -Atl- nt , ,a r volving fund and from bioh th Bou ing Authority ould , on it on d t r in 1 · , ak no int r t r t~ loans of fJ"om 10 to 100 to uch f 111 , to be r _pa1d to th Housing Au bority on kly b 1-s rlOC, of ti not to xce don y r. n point d out by th C D g �r . R. Erl Landers February 26, 1969 Page 4 EOA lf this should fall, Dan Sweat h s c,ontacted Jim. Parham of ho thinks tbat his organiz tion a·y be able to assist by permitting the Housing Authority to dra for the purposed scribed above. against certain EOA funds I m requesting both tbe Housing Authority and th Buildlng Depart ent to folio up closely, on the effectiveness of coordination and ·cooper tion fforts. numer ted in this paper · nd- to advise ot any breakdown hich ooeurs er of i prov m nt in procedur s· . h;1ch sh.ou14 bee tabltsbed . .S incerely, Malcol D. Jones Rousing Coordinator MDJ/ o Enc-ls : e<a e o d ted F b . 11, 1969 Mr . D n E. S eat, Jr . �