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P ERRY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SURVEY ON LOW RENT HOUSING 1. Do you have or have you ever had a low rent housing program in your · city? Yes ---x No - - - 2. If the answer to the previous question is no, have you ever considered such a program, and if so, why did your community decline to enter the program? IF THE ANSWER TO NUMBER 1 WAS YES, PLEASE COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. 3. ~ ! When was your .project initiated 1936 and witn how many units i604 ? Techwood P ublic Hous ing Pr oj e ct. Cur rent ac c elerated program initiated Nov ember 15, 196 6. 11 4. 11 How many units do you have today _____ and which years were they constructed? See attached Summary 5. In how many sections of your community are housing projects 1ocated? See 6. How many units are located in each section? 7. Please tell us how many one-bedroom units you have bedroom units ____ ; three-bedroom units ____ 8. attached Public Housing breakdowns . In See above . eing to 196~6 - New Public Housing. ·; Two- Impractical to determine for entire ·program including all categories of low-income housing. To what extent are your units integrated and has integration been a prob 1em? _All re integrated or subject to integration. It has caused aome problems. · �9. Does your city receive any benefits from the low rent housing program in lieu of taxes? yes 10. Do you have housing programs, in addition to low rent housing, such as turn-key (non-profit organizations) and/or exclusive housing for e 1derly? yes 11. Has your ~ity used Urban Renewai in conjunction with low rent housing and if so, to what extent? yes - ver extensively 12. Do you feel low rent housing has been good for your community? If yes ' why?· If no, why not?_ Yes · - Public Housing provides the only s tandard Housing which the lowest income families can afford . The 221 d(2) singlefamily and 221 d(3) multi-family attempts to fill the gap between P ublic Hous ing and conventienal market aate· housing .produced by Private Enterpris e in providing standard hous ing for those families whose economic status i s too high to qualify for P ti.blic Hous ing , but not high enough to c ompete successfully for si:andard housing in the P rivate Entetpris-e market . 13. Based on your experience with your program, would you recommend to other Georgia cities, who do not have low rent housing, that they consider the merits of this (these) program(s)? yes / 14. Please give any additional comments you would like to offer. S ee attached materia l: Mayor 's Addr ess a t Hou ing Conference, November 15 , 1966 Announcement Of Appointme n te to Housing. Resources Committee Functions of Hous ing Resources Committee Membership List , HRC Second Annual Report of HRC Summary of Low-income Housing Program , January 19 , 1969 Please use the reverse side if additional space i s needed. �