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From: Eric Hill Associct
To: Collier Gladin
EXPANDED MEANS TO LOWER COST HOUSING |
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It is increasingly apparent that the 1948, 1987, end particulerly the 1983 Housing Act ecles
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more flexibility in how housing for low to moderate income cee s can Ge provided with easier
assimilation into the community. As iis? orthcoming Model Cit udy "Lowering the Cost
of Low-Cost Housing" will show, however, taking proper cds s flexibility will also
require more technical monitoring of needs and more inieragency coordination. The poor will
continue to migrate into Atlanta. They cannot be stopsed. The community should realize that
a responsible position recognizes a need beyond mere corrective action. New programs demand
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innovation from older methods o doiag things end this should be the subject of special study.
Our recent study reveals that agencies and people of the city have tended to think about the
housing probiem in outdated terms. This is oie understandable because of rapid charges taking
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and to sterotyse inisi ging removed.
understood and has added to the confusion on such important matters as the controverstal
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These advantages de not ecerve naturally but must be geared to procedural
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A short Jist of cotentic! advantages over older ways cre:
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I. The means to construct substantially more publically subsidized housing on many scattered
~ gmall sites (ona lot, two lots, tes elther vacant or cleared for use) with few restrictions
on building type and density. Such housing may be traditional, single-family, town-_
houses, garden apartments, or any type best suited for assimilction into the neighborhood.
Public housing itself (although less subsidized programs are available) can assume new
form.. Management and maintenance problems can be “farmed out" through such programs
as the Leased Housing Program, Rent Supplement, and Turnkey II and III.
2, Various programs of housing assistance can be mixed within the same multi-family
structure, whether 221d(3), a private cooperative, 235, leased housing, traditional
financing, or a combination of programs. Management administrative approaches
must be worked out but they have been demonstrated successfully.
3. New assistance programs encourage worthy goals such as transition from renter to
owner even among the lowest income groups in lowest cost tenant responsibility,
pride, choice, job training, and improved design with variety.
4. New technology is encouraged with less constraints of local builders, mortage
bankers, management, and unnecesscrily restrictive standards. Real incentives
for business sector involvement are being developed.
a. ‘More equitable reimoursement policies for disolacees have been made possible.
We have a choice. Continue under outdated concepts — still existing — or try to utilize to
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the maximum extent new opcortunities available through recent Federal legislation.
STUDY NEEDED
Clearly, a need exists to redefine and reassess goals for Atlanta's low to moderate income housing
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market, The foregoing touches on some issues yet to be resolved. Primary among other basic
issues yet to be resolved is the need to reexamine the procedures, resources, informal organiza-
tions and:formal organizations involved in: . ‘
a; Matching needs of disslaced families with their financial, soace and locational require-
ments. Relocation housing meeting these requirements should be available at the time
of displacement. Inherently, these matters need to be handled on a case by casa basis.
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Monitoring needs for housing assistance program use beyond the Immediate requirements
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for relocation housina serving families disslaced by governmental action. The success
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of this technical job could be an important boost in economic activity as well as in im-
proving the quality of the overall housing stock,
Providing assistance to developers and to potential clients in the use of new and expanded
housing programs.
Requirements for new Federal housing assistance programs cre more complex and the implications
of new technology in planning their use are also more complex. A formalized greater degree of |
coordination betveen the Planning Department, the Housing Authority, the Regional Office of
HHA, developers, ard clients will be required if mexirhum program use fs to be realized. Existing
weaknassas in such coordinated efforts need to be exemined, rigid and outdated constraints ne
to be examined, and recommendations directly related to these matters should be presente
Board of Alderman. Resultant recommendations should point to alternative actions in achieving
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coordination monitoring and assistance and improving the potential use of housing pregrams in
Atlanta,
The envisioned total study needs, then, include:
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Make recommendations on the means to improve maiching the needs of disolacement
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families with relocation housing by specific functional, organizdtional and procedural
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Make recommendations of a similar nature regarding the technical monitering of needs
beyond aciual displacement needs (example: projected in-migration and new family
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