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ill § WASHINGTON, D.C. 20410
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY IN REPLY REFER TO:
FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
MAY 9 {96a
Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr.
Mayor of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Dear Mayor Allen:
Following up my letter of April 22, I am pleased to inform you that the
following contractors have been selected by the Department of Housing
and Urban Development for the first phase of the experimental program
to develop new housing for low- and moderate-income families within the
inner city:
ABT Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts - Daniel, Mann,
Johnson and Mendenhall, Los Angeles, California
Building Systems Development, Inc., San Francisco, California
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Each of these contractors has been given a list of 25 cities. Your City
is on the list for study by ABT Associates, Incorporated. A repre-
sentative from this firm will be contacting your office within the next
few days. He will need your help and the help of your staff in order to
make an analysis and evaluation of the potential for carrying out a
housing experiment in your City. The time pressures will be severe as
the Department is determined to evolve solutions to the long standing
problems which have prevented an adequate production of housing for lLow-
and moderate-income families.
The contractors involved in this Phase I of the experiment will have
not only to develop criteria for the selections of cities in which the
housing will be built (the Department and the contractors will work
together in final city selection), but aiso will have to seek out and
analyze potentially successful building and management systems for the
actual construction of the housing as well as an identification of the
constraints which have tremendously hampered the construction of such
housing and plan for overcoming these constraints. As you can see, this
ambitious program will call for an extremely intensive level of work
‘between now and mid-June when the contractors are expected to report
back to the Department.
Each contractor will be working closely with Department personnel both
in Washington and in the regional offices. If at any point you feel
Departmental staff can be of direct service to you during this period
of analysis, I suggest that your Model Cities Director or one of your
principal assistants contact directly the Model Cities team captain in
the appropriate HUD regional office.
Sincerely yours,
Assistant Secretary
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MENT 9,
£7] My
s+ x8 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
ill § WASHINGTON, D.C. 20410
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY IN REPLY REFER TO:
FOR DEMONSTRATIONS AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
MAY 9 {96a
Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr.
Mayor of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Dear Mayor Allen:
Following up my letter of April 22, I am pleased to inform you that the
following contractors have been selected by the Department of Housing
and Urban Development for the first phase of the experimental program
to develop new housing for low- and moderate-income families within the
inner city:
ABT Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts - Daniel, Mann,
Johnson and Mendenhall, Los Angeles, California
Building Systems Development, Inc., San Francisco, California
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Each of these contractors has been given a list of 25 cities. Your City
is on the list for study by ABT Associates, Incorporated. A repre-
sentative from this firm will be contacting your office within the next
few days. He will need your help and the help of your staff in order to
make an analysis and evaluation of the potential for carrying out a
housing experiment in your City. The time pressures will be severe as
the Department is determined to evolve solutions to the long standing
problems which have prevented an adequate production of housing for lLow-
and moderate-income families.
The contractors involved in this Phase I of the experiment will have
not only to develop criteria for the selections of cities in which the
housing will be built (the Department and the contractors will work
together in final city selection), but aiso will have to seek out and
analyze potentially successful building and management systems for the
actual construction of the housing as well as an identification of the
constraints which have tremendously hampered the construction of such
housing and plan for overcoming these constraints. As you can see, this
ambitious program will call for an extremely intensive level of work
‘between now and mid-June when the contractors are expected to report
back to the Department.
Each contractor will be working closely with Department personnel both
in Washington and in the regional offices. If at any point you feel
Departmental staff can be of direct service to you during this period
of analysis, I suggest that your Model Cities Director or one of your
principal assistants contact directly the Model Cities team captain in
the appropriate HUD regional office.
Sincerely yours,
Assistant Secretary