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I r w ISIO WHITE COLUMNS ON PEACHTREE CHANNEL 2, ATLANTA, GA. 30309 AN EDITORIAL OPINION •.• •• ••• January 2, 1969 VIEWPOINT An official expression of the editorial opinion of the management of WSB Television. "Who is my neighbor?" If you live in Atlanta, here's a modern day answer to that 2,000 year old question. These are your neighbors. Some live in these homes because they are lazy; some because they don't know any better; but most because there is simply no other place to live in this city of a million. For too long, most of us have passed by our slum neighbors on the other side of the road. But the good Samaritans are among us today, too. In 1966, Mayor Allen set a goal - almost 17,000 new housing units in the next five years. It was a modest goal actually aimed only at keeping us about even in the fight against rotte n housing. Since then, Atlanta architect Cecil Alexander has sacrificed much of his own profit-making time as a non-paid chairman of the Mayor's Housing Resources Committee. And Malcolm Jones, a retired Army Colonel, has been the full-time working head of the big housing pus h. At the · e nd of the first two years, the program is amazingly "on schedule". Except in one important area: The city is 4,000 units behind in the goal rJr public housing. Behind in the very area where the need is greatest, where this family must live --in new units that can be rented or purchase d at $30 to $50 per month. Of all the units built or started since 19 66, private enterprise has not b~en able to build anything to re nt o r sell for l ess than $60 a month. That i s not to s a y tha t priv a t e builders have not tried. They have done a fine job. But the high co st of l and and labor and zoning problems have effectively prevented the building of tr~ly low co st housing. That me ans that our gove rnme nt , which is anothe r way of say ing -you a nd I , i s appare ntly the only Samaritan who can change the life of a boy like this.

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