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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT WASHINGTON, D. C. 20410 OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY IN REPLY REFER TO: FOR DEMONSTRAT I ONS A N D INTERGOVER N MENT A L REL A T I ONS MAY 9 1968 Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr. Mayor of Atlanta Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Dear Mayor Allen: Following up my letter of April 22, I am pleased to inform you t hat the followi ng contractors have been selected by the Department of Housi ng and Urban Development for t he first phase of the experimental program to develop new housing for low- and moderate-income famili es within the i nner city: ABT Associat es, Inc., Cambri dge, Massachusett s - Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall, Los Angeles, Californi a • Building Systems Development, Inc., San Franci sco, Calif ornia Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Fach of these contractors has been given a list of 25 cities . Your City is on the list for study by ABT Associat es, Incorporated. A repre sentative from this firm will be contacting your office within the next few days . He will need your help and the help of your staff in order to make an analysis and evaluation of the potential for carrying out a housing experiment in your City. The time pressures will be severe as the Department is determined to evolve solutions to the long standing problems which have prevented an adequate production of housing for lowand moderate-income families. The contractors involved in this Phase I of the experiment will have not only to develop criteria for the selections of cities in which the housing will be built (the Department and the contractors will work together in final city selection), but aLSO will have to seek out and analyze potentially success:f'ul building and management systems for the actual construction of the housing as well as an identification of the constraints which have tremendously hampered the construction of such housing and plan for overcoming these constraints. As you can see, this ambitious program will call for an extremely intensive level of work between now and mid-June when the contractors are expected to report back to t he Department. �2 Each contractor will be working closely with Department personnel both in Washington and in the regional offices. If at a:ny point you feel Departmental staff can be of direct service to you during this period of analysis, I suggest that your Model Cities Director or one of your principal assistants contact directly the Model Cities team captain in the appropriate HUD regional office. Sincerely yours, �