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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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rskyline is punctuated by! new skyscraper office buildings,
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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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| ing their city’. Professional baseball, football, and a
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»
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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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‘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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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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951° ;country. The city has had its riot. It is Sedit a

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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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“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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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 displacement of) 21,000 families, or| 67,000 people.







"The majority of the families and individuals forced

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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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ested in participating in the city's housing program. Ex-
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‘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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iveloper of che projects. The proposal was rejected. |
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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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| Greensboro, Marvin Warner of Cincinnatif‘and the home

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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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‘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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project was ready to go to contract/ when| the Board] of Alder-
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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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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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ithe form of government % a new construction method or |a
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snew program. . Trying |to find tHe magic button causes
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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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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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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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aig time- and labor-saving natdvialg and cechology.. |
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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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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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The program can't atford the time required; for rezoning,
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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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to make an equitable distribution through-
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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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The planning | phase of es model ¢ Cities program was t¢
‘be completed ths fat. Ba Logue, ¢ hs of the best prac-
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enowang how to} ake fodetat at a to Sie

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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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; now Duminted atsse weer beeeoee) pike | impeovenaies Not

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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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jthat | the rehousing ne of es Letts might 5 ae been
inandied pecter/Min 7 Atlanta as jin other Teal, | |
| "Some say on east record on relocation has beer satis- |
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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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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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Low-:.and ee housing | has not been built at
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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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| r£| there is anything wich distinguishes Atlanta toot

‘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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national acclaim for doing something-Yanything: however
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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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qe that should Atlanta succeed ws sapsovine the plight of
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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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(HUD than do most cities. |But the problems are there. FHA

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