.MTg4OQ.MTg4OQ

r TO: The Housing Resources Committee of Atlanta FROM : Sub-Committee on Public Housing During the last year the Sub-Committee on Public Housing held numberless meetings with. many corrnnunity leaders and visited a great many acceptable sites for projects. After days and nights of discussions and tireless blending of opinions, plans for action ·were unaminous ly agreed. rhe only logical conclusion was reached that (1) subsidized housing must be fair ly distributed t hroughout the city and, (2) tha t the only pol i tica l l y feas ibl e wa y to d o this was by a " package deal" simultaneously presented to Council by the Mayor and Atlanta Housing Authority with overwhelming community support. Our full Committ e e, th e Atla nta Chamb er of Commerc e , the Mayor's Citizens Advisory Commit tee, church orga niza tions and many others approved and endorsed such procedure. But when submitt ed to the Housing Author ity th e Authority stated i t h a dn' t stud ied t h e plan, f ai l ed to approv e or d isapprov ~ but inst ea d pr oc eed ed with the singl e shot a ppr oa ch which had f a il ed b efore . The result was continuing tur n downs of r ez oning by the Aldermanic zoning powers. It is the opinion of t h e Sub - Committee on Publ ic Housing that it is not too l ate t o resubmit those rejec ted zoning appl i ca t ions thr ough the " pa cka ge plan" on a simultaneou s b asis to meet the city's needs for sub sidized housing and t hat t h e Mayor, the Board of Alderman and the Atlanta Housing Authority should proceed to do so forthwith. If the same energy, zeal and leadership of ou r "power structure" and city officials that was mobilized to bu i l d our dazzling st adium, luxury apartments and ma gn i ficent hot e l s and office buildings in our ur ban redevelopment areas h a d b een applied with equal energy, zeal and l ea dership to providing subsidized housing for thos e who were bulldozed out of slums to make room for thes e majestic structures, th e goal of public housing our Mayor publicly proclaimed so long ago would now be nearl y reached. �-2- -,, ,· We have done wonders for the rich. Now, let us do wonders for the poor! Therefore, as Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Public Housing and on its behalf, I move that our full Committee does now reaffirm its position on "package rezoning", and calls upon its fellow organizations of the city and those responsible for its implement_ation to cooperate to put it into effecto December 12, 1968 �