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ATLANTA'S COMMUNITY IMP2OVEIENT PROGRAM REPORT
SECTION TWO: DEVELOPING AN ArsIRMATIVE RELOCATION PROGRAM
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RESOLVING EXISTING HOUSING IMBALANCES (Prelimina it
.
Applying the estimates and assumptions of the foregoing discussion, the
following critical 1965 Atlanta housing imbalances can be estimated. Such
estimates would refle nly 196 sds, not achievability, future growth, or
additional réhabilitat nolition above the 17,€C0 dilapidated and major
repair housing units. It is, the oretice arting point in 1965.
*
ESTIMATES OF 2 ROUSING ASSISTANCE. NEADE SSOLVE CRITICAL
INCOME/ROISING COS? Da CInNCITS SRICR SHUM CONDITION DSF ICTENCTES,
Rental i 0~$55 per month range
Housing
Units | j in $55-S80 per month range
$80-115 per month range
Rental Housing Units
*
O;mer Owmer units, estimated 907 low-cost
Fousing :
Units 17,000 Housing Units
*Reflects absolute 1965 deficiencies only
The housing units neeced, as wetbednes in Table hi, could be provided by the
following programs: an estimated 8, 800 in rent supplement or public housing$
an estimated 3,3C8 in "221 d (3)" below market rate, an estimated 6,2 in "221 a (3)"
market rate; and an estimated ,250 with the "221 d (2)" program. An approximate breakdc
inhousing units needed by sizes would be:
Table 5
“UM | HOUSING UNIT SIZES NEEDED TOF RESOLVE
USING STOCK CRITICAL DSPICINNCISS
“ESTIMATES OF
MINT
L965 ATLANT
fo
8,800 Units Public-Housing or Rent Supplement
11:88 : 1 bedroom units
2,112 => 2 bedrocm units
L lbh 3 bedroon units
1,056 ly or more bedroom units:
48 800
3,308 Units of 221 d (3) Below Market Rate Interest
X ,687 vr. edroom wits
79 2 bedroom units
1,30 3 bedroom units
397 h or more bedroom units
3,308
62 Units of 221 d (3) Market Rate Interest
aay. Nae bedroom units
15) bedroom units
8), bedroom units
77 or more bedroom units
6li2
4,250 Units of 221 d (2) Owner Housing
bedroom units
bedroom units
2,167
1,020
i.
2
553 3 bedroom units
h
S10 or more bedroom units
“T3250
tlanta must accelerate its low cost housing programs if a beginning is to
be made in resolving the internal existing housing imbalances.
tlanta must realize the majority of our people now living in substandard
housing are also living in substandard housing they cannot reasonably afford.
Preliminary projections* indicate that the households needing assistance in
finding decent housing will sharply increase in the future. It is estimated
that 26,178 households will require housing assistance in 1975 and 23,03 will
require Sindy assistance in 1983.
Resolving existing imbalances will not be simple, Redevelopment must be
systematically progremmed over a suitable length of time. The creation of new
. housing to correct’ a sia enes of today (much Less, the Pen would require
a net acreage of 708 acres for mul tit family units at 18 units — acre and 8c0
net acres for single family housing units at 5 units per acre. Both of these
densities are, according to local custom, relatively high. However in view of
the raw acreage needed (30% should be added for streets, community facilities,
parks, etc.) much higher densities may have to be considered.
The answer to the question of how to resolve housing imbalances lies within
the question of how to begin. | The beginning of an accelerated redevelopment
program dictates a more efficient and coordinated effort in housing and
redevelopment planning. Such improvements to the planning program will take tine
to initiate - at least one year. In the meantime, the provision of relocation
t the displacement expectcd within the next two years will be nec
forthconine “Housine Marketability
Initially, then, a "crash" program to provide low income housing will be
needed. This crash program should be geared to providing on-the-ground low
cost hous sing for an expected 1967-8 displacement of 1,800 families from public
projects now underway along with an additional expectation of ),900 families
needing housing assistance as a result of four new high priority urban renewal
va
projects recently proposed.*
The contemplated breakdown of this immediate ("crash" program) need is:
2,25 omer housing units at a modest cost of from $12,500 to $17,500 and 7,275
rental units. The rental unit breakdown for this "crash" two-year program is
expected to be: 4,220 units in the $55 or less rental range; 2,620 units in
the $98 to $80 rental range and 32 units in the $80 to $115 per month rental
range. About 11,850 of these units are expected to be one-bedroom units; 2,350
two-bedroom; 1,300 three~bedroom; and, 1,200 four or more bedroom.
“New urban renewal projects proposed for accelerated action are: the East
Atlanta Project with 1,072 families to be displaced; the Vine City project with
2,32) families to be displaced; the. Cooper-Glen project with 1,963 families to
be displaced; and the Plunkettown project with 98 families to be displaced.