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·Iousing Resources Executive Committee and

Low- Income Housing Coordinating Group Meeting November 12 , 1968 The regul ar mont h l y meeting of the 3 ousing Resources Executive Commit tee and the Low-income Housing Coordinating Group was held ~t , 10 : 00 a.m., muesday, November 12 , 1968 , as a joint meeting with the /Model Cities Exec utive Board. I f Xnvitation@ l notices , list of those invited, with attendance indicated , and other related documents are attached to the file copy of these minutes only. /. } / ,,J ..! Mayor Llle n o p ened the meeting by greeting the Housing Rra sources Comm:ittee , z-elated DG partment ~-ieads and Technical Advis or y Committee . Mr . J . C . J o hnson , Model Cities Director, referred to the comments from :-JUD o n the Administrativ e Report of the previo us session and distr" bu ted cop ies to his Executive Board members. Mr . Johns o n stated that t he fo ll ow ing are t h e three admi nistrative subcomrai ~t ees o f the Mode l Cities : 1 . Pb rsical Pla n ners, 2 . Social Planners , and 3 . Fina ncia l and Community Affairs . He a l so t alked ~b o u t the unempl oyment for the City as a whole as compared with t he Mod e. Cities a rea and p ointed out that the unemployment rate for the City i s 3 - 5% and in t he Mode l Cities area the unemployment rate is ~bout 15%. Mr . Johnson then p assed o ut to members o f the Executive Boa r d and exp lained copies of the Funding Analysis for t h e 1969 Imp lementation Year , comp osed o f the f o llowing ?ro gram Compo nents: (A cop y of which , with breakd ow n and detailed explanation, is attached to the fi l e copy of these minutes ,) l . Empl oyment 2. Education 3. Commu nity Affairs ~?ubl ic ':: :' ranS!JOr t ation 4. Experimental Bus Route & 266 , DOO b. o ther Tra ns portation St ree t a nd Sidew~ lk Improvements 684 , 000 Hom;ing 6. 1. b . Othe r Housing Programs Crime a nd De l iq ue ncy Rec rea t ion a. G. 3 , 389 ,323 3 , 282 , 750 345 , 100 a. 5. 8. $ HDP Heail th Satisfactor y Commun i ty 6nv ironment ~. b. Ylat e r Sewer lD,000,000 600 , 0 00 1 , 5 9 0 ,5~H 6 03 , 2 01}1 3 , 81 8 , 345 2 4 6 , 199 422 , 940 �2 10~ Social Services 11. 12 ~ Economic Development Evaluation Administrative Budget 13. 2,202,283 210,000 200, 00 0 503, 9 53 The tot~l proposed funding of $28,393 1 684, consists of Supp lementa l , City and Other funds. After consideration and discussion of various elements by Model Ci ties Executive Board members, motion was made, seconded, and carried that the Draft of the propos~d Funding Analysis be accepted and forwarded to HUD for consideration~ After conside r ation of severa l other relatively minor matters, the Mode l Cities Ex ecutive Board was then adjourned by the Chairman and the Housing Resources Committee moved to Committee Room 4 for continuation of its meeting and was shown a film, 'Cora Street", produced by ACTION- Housing, Inc. of ?ittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The fi l m featured dilapidation of dwellings and the practibility of rehabi l itation. lit was · ty p ica l of the many housing p roblems faced by most cities throughout the Nation and which we have in Atlanta. ~ , ·~ . ! I A Group of Business, Civic and Religious men in P ittsburgh formed a Nonp rofit organization, started and performed rehabilitation of 20 bad l y di l a p idated units in one b l oc t of apartments on Cora Street in P ittsburgh. The pl umbing, l ighting, heating, floors, walls and cei l ings were much be l ow standard and had to be comp letely redone. The dilap idated units cost $4 1 000 each; $6 ,000 was s pent on rehabi lit a ti o n ; and wh en compl eted t he u nits were rented f or $ 89 . 00 p er mon t h, plus e l ectricity, thus proving th~t r e habili t ati on is feasib le and well worth doing, Since it i~ virtually impossib l e to r epla c e wi th new u ni ts, al l of t h e di l apidated dwelling u n its i n Amer ica. . ! 1 Mr . J o n es t h en introd uc e d Mr. Jim Wright, Physic al P l a n ni ng Coordin~t o r , Model Cities, wh o e xpl a ined the Land Use Pl an for t h e Mod el Ci t ies a r e a . The 5 year pl a n f o r the Mo d e l Ci t ies a rea i nv o l ves c once nt r a t i o n o n impr o vements by yearly imcrement s i n t he l ow, med i um and hig h dens ity areas . The ma in appr oach i s t o ma i n tain the current neighb o rhooas · and prov ide overall imp r o ved ~ o r v i ces fo r the neigh- borhoods, Mr . Wright said tha t there are now ab out 10 , 000 dwelling units in the Model Citieo ~rea , but when completed there should be approximately 13,0DO units. Mr, Wright stated that in the Model Cities area, approximately 2/3 of the families have incomes of about $3,300 or below, which will require considerable rublic Housing~ �3 Mr. Persells advised that Public Housiig rentals are roughly 20% of the families' ~ncome; Mr. Wright then explained the Housing Plan for the first year. There are proposed three rehabilitation areas (126A) and 13 clearance areas, including 5 major and 8 small (38A)~ The first year's program (1969) of the Model Cities area calls for clear~nce of 456 structures, relocation of 531 families nnd rehabilitation of 403 dwelling units. A ma p of the Model <::ties area showing clearance and rehabilitation sites for the 1969 program is available in the Housing Resources Committee of fice . Under present al l ocation of land f or temporary housing sites there wi l l be land awlable f or 200-225 units, for which construction should get well under way during 1960 . New construction contemplated for the first year is .476 dwel l ing units. The meeting was adjourned at 12 : 45 p .m. Respectfully submitted, °JJ~...<;-~aBt ,, . - ,.'\~ . " r- ,~~ Malcolm D. Jones L· Housing Coordinator me Encl: As stated (wi t h file copy) �