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. DRAFT - MINUTES OF THE HOUSING RESOURCES COMMITTEE MEETING-2/14/67 Members of the Housing Resources Committee met for their organizational meeting on Tuesday, February 14, 1967, at 10:00 a. m. in the Aldermanic Chambers at 'City Hall. The meeting was called to order by Mr. Cecil Alexander, Chairman of the Committee. at this time. Mr. Alexander then presented Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr. who spoke Mayor Allen first expressed his appreciation to everyone on the Committee for their willingness to serve and to respond to the City's efforts to provide better housing for its citizens. He reviewed with the Committee the great magnitude of this problem and the increasing need for more and more housing units. He pledged the City's full cooperation in attempting to overcome this problem and in getting this program underway. He expressed the hope that by 1968 the City would meet its goal for 9, 800 new housing units. He also told the group of the Model Cities Program presently being developed by the City. This program would cover a very large portion of the city and would affect 55, 000 citizens living in the area . This would be a different program to try to save this particular section of the city. He state d that he felt the progress that had been made since the November Housing Conference is an 'M&ft2 dat;iOE indication that we will meet the goal. Mr . Ferd Kramer of Draper and Kramer of Chicago spoke to the group at this time. Mr. Kramer is the past President of Action, Inc. and is presently on the Board of Director s of Urban America , Inc. and is chairman of their committee concerned with non-profit housing funds. Mr. Kramer told the committee �Page Two of a housing project he helped develop in Chicago some 7 to 8 years ago. This project was developed by a group of private individuals representing a cross , section of the community and the benefits were two fold: 1. It improved the environment considerabl' in the declining neighborhood; and 2. It provided much needed housing for the staffs of the Michael- Reese H o spital and the Illinois Institute of Technology (these organizations were the first groups to institute studies of the area to determine the approach to follow to combat the decline of the area). This program w as tremendously successful in Chicago and Mr. Kramer f e lt it w ould have some applicability in Atlanta. Mr. Kramer also e x plained that Urban Ame rica , I n c . has a division especially interested in non-profit housing and in creating d e v e lopment funds. It is not possibl e for the Urban America staff to s e r ve the e ntire nation 1 s non-profit groups and as a r e sult the y have b ee n succ e ssful inf e rsuadin g communiti e s to creat e local de v elopment funds to deal w ith this proble m . H e str e ss e d that each community must use ev e r y possible m e ans for s e curin g h ousin g fo r i ts low and middl e in come citizens . The Cha irman the n than k e d th e memb e rs of the Committee fo r ac ce pting this re sponsibility and o u tlined th e chall e ng es facin g them in pr o vi d i n g t h is low i ncome hous ing i n Atlanta. H e state d h e hope d this C o m m i ttee will s erve to br i ng the e l ements togeth er w h ic h a re ne c e ssary f o r su cces s (new idea s , new structures , new financing method s, etc . ). H e ~ reviewed sever al progr a ms t h at are available �. ' Page Three to help solve this problem. He then outlined the work to be carried out by each panel and explained that the actual work of the Committee will be conducted through the panels. He suggested that each panel appoint two young men to assist them and to carry out the majority of the work. He pointed ~mt that Col. Malcolm Jones and Mr . .William Gates are available to assist the Committee and that their office is located on the 12th floor of City Hall. Mr. Dan Sweat of the Mayor's Office is also working closely with this program. He asked that each panel meet at least once a month and suggested that the full committee meet monthly also. He then adjourned the meeting and asked the Committee members to meet with the other members of their panels here today for the purpose of selecting a Chairman and Co-Chairman. �