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-, December i8, 1969 Thanks Mayor Allen Building Department Colonel Jones HUD Members of the Committee FHA Aldermanic Board News Media Atlanta Housing Authority Mrs. Virginia Barber Developers Accomplishments Lee Burge Committee 1. Greater Atlanta Housing Fund 2. Temporary Housing to stablize neighborhoods Const. Com3. Study of housing codes Legal Com. 4. Legislation for schools 5. Committee of Board of Aldermen (did not really function) 6. Rezoning aid (proposal for overall rezoning) 7. Coordination to get needed utilities, schools, etc. into areas 8. Working with developers 9. Aiding National Homes gain acceptance for their prefab house 10. Social ll. Problems 12. Requesting Aldermen for public housing units Efforts to acquire emergency housing Catalyst for units that were built Housing actually built Five year goal As of Nov. 15 • 16, 800 Completed 6, 319 Under Construction 7,395 �Page 2 5, 812 In Planning Leased 1, 015 20, 541 Therefore, at the end of thr ee years the program is 3, 741 ahead of the five year total. In addition, some 20, 862 units have b ee n rehabilitate d . 20,266 by Housing Code Division 596 by Atlanta Housing Authority 3,427 units h ave been de1nolished under the Code. The program is well ahead of goals in FHA financing by some 5, 609 units and some 2, 071 in conventionally fin a n ced. In Public Housing 3,937 units need to be built in the remaining two years of the program. ,_ - -- .LJ.a. vc J:ey_ues i. e <l by foe City . Recommendations 1. New study of housing requirements com pleted. The job is not done. 2. Better means established to enable people now 1n slums to move into improved housing. 3. 4. Emergency Housing for Families a. Community Council Program b. Feder a l ruling allowing establishment of emergency housing Grants accessible to anyone - in or out of urban renewal, model cities or code c oncentration area for rehabilitation of units judged uninhabitable. himself. Where owner occupies unit and is unable to pay �Page 3 5. Rezoning of the entire city - not just for housing needs but for all needs of land use. 6. Continuing solution to th.e needs of public housing tenants, economically and socially. 7. 1 Continuing efforts to get metropolitan a rea to accept their sha e I .\ of the load. 8. Establishment of relocation s~rvi ce for persons moved by-any private or public action. 9. Enforc ement of Fair Housing Provisions with emphas is on eliminating block busting tactics. 10. Encourag ement of moderate and upper income people to live in and near the central city. 11. Stablizing, economically, of deterio ating neighbor);1.0ods. 12. Encourag e1nent of the 11s P. of :::i 11 rr~'-'-' bc1ild.i::g ~c..!:c:::::ia.ls o..i1.d t e cl1n.iyues that m ea sure up to standard. 13. Coordination of all city requirements with housing. Final!:_y, a word about administration . Citizen Committee Recommend that the functions of Housing Resourc es Committee and Citizens Advisory Committee for Urban Renewal be combined. Perhaps in a Citizens Committee for Urban Solutions. That a Director of Urban Solutions with an a d e qua t e staff b e set up . Alde rmen That an Aldermanic Committee, charg e d with proble ms of housing, be set u p. It is urg e d finally tha t low incom e housing, in sofar as possible b e d einstitutionaliz ed. Tha t it b e available throughout th e city in as small concentration a.s possible. That those, who occupy if b ecome members of the tota l community - not separate enclaves. �P age 4 I know that the new administration is dedicated to solving the housing problems - Although I am forced to return to my practice, there are many better qualified than I to carry on at the citizen's leve l. I urge the new administration to capitalize on this great as set to the city - the concerned people who have served on the· Housing R esources Con1.mittee. �