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ears Ae considered a ame more than one re-
apeck. Standing at the aptewey to the aoe! it is| |
eae of the faster developing cities in the country, whe
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and = central BUR RREEE district pack tae with constirye-
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wien gtass Sicbakone. isia courise| atergction in Leseie.
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iA new sports dies stands in the Apress ore of those
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acaaan come to the city in the past few years. |
The mayor. ivan shies TX s:9 has sleac reputation| for
n chtightened| atertude toward race vattcednt and ss ele
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gressive administration Pre on ee the as
(problens. “whe cei eae of good nous ing for souls in»
“the south, you Sieh of ee ‘ i a Negro writer.
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When Congress Sate the model cities legislation, allen
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saa aaa woula be eae esate submit jan application
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garded by HUD officials as the pest model cities plan oe | |
mitted. aclanta sis! was song Sine [Binge cities to pasta
OS public housing /and use the urban renewal Shodan (11 urban
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‘renewal projects ih éeeadeveniiox completed) . |
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tlanta its favorable image. The man is/Dan Sweat
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when| he joined) the city government | his job was to
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i that) Atlanta got its share.of|federal funds.|/The job has
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jsince been expanded} Sweat'isjan example of a new breed
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‘of urban official, the eity ramrod} His|office is/where
presi wat solved programs get started; where government
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officials and businessmen Sone to get things |done.
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Sweat was responsible te Atlanta's model cities appli-
ication. “The mayor told me to/put Logeulee an ROR Fee
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and submit LE part any |other city, I asked ;him what we
lnudgée would be. He | said /|there would be no budget. I asked
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him how much stags I would have. He said none. No|stafé£,
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ino budget."
Sweat started making telephone calls to city and county
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agencies. "I agied them for the pest man they had |for this
[job ‘nate the maniI wanted from gach agency and I took
2B|enoed oie ete them in a na upstairs. Two Lie
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|later, we | had 4 model cities application
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atianta lis not without lits problems. In fact, th
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gated cityrB5% aoulersiats according to one |indexi—/
thousands of rele Ae S poor, peel them Negro,
ing i Peete, The success of the urban re-
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lowed projects |nas seoravaced the shail problem. By
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“Allen's estimate, ee | latiteg are needed by 1972 jjust
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ixelocate eae families guises by Poveramens action.
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The rate of construction of public housing land 221 (da) (3)
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units has not been eb, to the | need.| The city jis still
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lseeking Ja way to get ents; below, $55 ‘al month, where) the jit tii
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setae by thie power atructure of, the city. "The prabtien=
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i Previous | decade, he oT government action urban renewal,
| highway construction, code enfoxcement}fhad resulted in
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"The majority of the families and individuals forced
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75% had incomes under $5,000 a year....about) 15% were |
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Allen announced the formation of/a citizens committee
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2b which would give ciheotihn to new program. eek gi |
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Nee Goies by oe units by the end of pats bear.
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i Be gota & buh aers, for the|most} part, are; not oe
ested in participating in the city's housing program. Ex-
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eS eee to be that several years ago| the home | |
‘baslders' assopsation approached the city ais a beopots |
Fee give builders quotas - low- and moderate+income housing
ebrebaiae!| the risk Lad leis che re cee oa be
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"Spent away from the |more profitable ee: budlaing which
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Now, much of] the turnkey oi 221(a) (3) housing is being
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jbuilt by contractors based in | other cities HHLC Corp. of
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The goal of 9,800|units by the end of |this
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(be reached. Allen is confident, though, |that
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jnole jin a | reasonable amount of time," he says
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(Up the pipeline in the first 18 months. We'll easily ge
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‘the I ares eats We've got the support jof the business
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lcommunity | eer of Commerce, the news media. The
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magnitude | \of the whole effort is expanding."
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Allen is realistic enough to! know that! the word lis not
ithe deed. He is mayor ofa city with a weak-mayor form of
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government and jhe needs the cooperation of the Board of)
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men balked. Someone had come to the| city} with) an idea for
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producing prefabricated concrete houses with an on-site!
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ox Plant. “Hel had no prototype and no plant)" Allen says, but
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he came here with that idea and succeeded in panicking some
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aldermen." Allen prevailed in cat situation, but merely
raising the question of a techhological preanthoog ot
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"The oly problem is to make | people believe there is no
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easy way. Looking 265 the instant solution Bolan of a
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problems only a¢aays|ehe issue! The ‘housing Stabielh has | pe
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ithe form of government % a new construction method or |a
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Not = all Atlantans in or joe government share
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‘sense of urgency. National Homes brought in, low-cost singles
(gonily houses for the Thomasville veban renee area and
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found codes to [be a jproblem. National installlea the plumb-
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obtained from the Building Department was sufficient. But
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the plumbing and electrical inspectors denied permits for
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ithe houses. salted was forced to xip out the plumbing
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and aa from its models and) ship| the rest of it pach
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SG2e without the plumbing trees, plastic pipel, at fiber
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bathtub, aha nee electrical) systen. it seo by
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raising eyes $500 a house. | | |
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~ The! city planning fepartment| and | the Housing Resources
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Denima Rees stated ina subsequent report that |'City codes
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discriminate against maroeensiced) prefabricated housing.
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pane Plumbing an Electrical Advisory Boards are composed
_ predominantly of bee stl of | labor and| trade unions.
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These! boards strongly influence changes and Ecleiel oie
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of the City's Electrical and Plumbing Codes. poe pares
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is maintenance of the status quo of |their trade’ rather than
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“° —another problem sal fai Hse present conaseions, most
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of Atlanta's Low-cost housing must he maltigamily units.
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But only 68 acres ot fas abi [rena lu the city ee
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multifamily. al Pacuies almost every proposed housing |
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jErodpct has to} be preceded by| rezoning. Since Allen is
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_ tegration of Dieeraneyee sees ahead et) rezoning
*Tnounts to, a reminee to as Ae cl all-white
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neighborhoods. Two obstacles have been raised, one by t
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federal government. HUD regulations state that public
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hous ing cannot) be built racially sdentifianie areas»
he presumption is that the Eosint is to be| built outside
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the Negro! ghetto. But F osejciats objected to bhi laing
ij pu ublic po wehbe all-white nssgioeicod because] they
yee) caeial uy Ben EES as oa The city’ then,
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There was cvienc earlier this year pe HUD was chang-
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| Spprovixg) mortgage pHeuEsTee for a|/ project in an area where
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juntil the) other housing was sold or rented. |The program,"
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,a Saey wage rezoning. The alternative was to] fight the |
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Lots battles) one at a time. “There ' s not etougts| t0w= |
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rout the cisy,*|says| alien, "SO the, guy on =e block where
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‘the housing is| \going to be built says, [way me? ' The |
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Low-cost isl caceyahit hous ing isn't Feasible in Atlanta
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"gones, ee ikea ta Ss} not enough profit in them." The city
Ee a ee pee size of 73 500 sa| ft.);.a minimun
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_ frontage pe ce ang a see eG size of/ 810 sq. et.
| Jones wants the te enti reauped to 5,000 oer £t.| for the
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‘lot, 50! frontage, pat 720 sq. £t.| for line house. "I've
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3 proposed chat oo times in writing a the last year,"
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Jones a esd eas og) Lo get the plumbing ina
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i electrical codes eee! yational Homes. "Z've Pro
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iosee to waive) codes in tocetion vere cxperinanyal
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housing is being built. But unions/and manufacturers team
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The planning | phase of es model ¢ Cities program was t¢
‘be completed ths fat. Ba Logue, ¢ hs of the best prac-
cttidnere|os urban renewal and choties who 3Ges ctedit |for
enowang how to} ake fodetat at a to Sie
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geaie |e model cities program |" conises ‘ich nove /than 18
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gram as the salvation of |the city, jeither.
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‘five years to execute, assuming Congress prov
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Allen does not deprecate ur ban renewal. “Urban renewal
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fis like most government programs," he says with a trace
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of annoyance. Phe vast amount of good has been forgotten
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* by the public baa the small anount of wha wath been heralded.
[the urban renewal areas in eGo colons the wows
slums, unfit se anyone to live pala any eae They are
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(didn! = improve his housing. The success jof urban renewal
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_is nowhere near as bad as the urban renewal areas
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eat The nous ing program and =i Maa lai de a Hous-
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jthat | the rehousing ne of es Letts might 5 ae been
inandied pecter/Min 7 Atlanta as jin other Teal, | |
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“put I feel hae ee do better [than just satisfactory." 3
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A year later, the [Housing ace Committee and the 7 |
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bitsntiag i) that the building Sie es dae
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‘tion housing which meets the need of displaced families |
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when ‘they need jit "has not been txied, much less success-
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The same report concluded that “only about |11% 0 of the yd |
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large number of low-income families displaced. Rents and
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costs, while moderate, have been too nigh for these patie |
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‘families, | the need in number ¢ of units today is greater
Peeler was in| 1959) nee Ae 62 cerateuead conditions,
i there appears Lo beja shhrtagd of about |5, 300 housing units
iglavattante| to Negroes ana 2,100 pausing Units available/jto
white fanilies renting phe $55 a month de less in|Atlanta." |.
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‘other cities, it is |the Lines todefine its problems
and initiate action to solve them. Tt is a measure of the
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No jone is rushing |in from the state capitol or Washington
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jin Pittsburgh and New York and Chicago, jthe rural per |
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‘continue to seek the Reser life in the city.) The migration
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continues, and there is the suspicion among city officials
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those already in its slums, the city would become an even
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bigger magnet for the state’ s rural poor'. Wits few) excep-
tions~and Georgia is not} one of chemp'the states ig |
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shown little ‘iheoeal in Cae their ae eves at
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only by sufficiently) serving ea areas) to stem the “
gration to to the Watt ask ony Big Ley sever ag he wants
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to work thr ough! his state, government rather chan directly
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