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SLUG CENTENNIAL (ATLANTA)
MONTH Ss MS. NO. 1
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ears Ae considered a ie ole 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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tion activity. The eee House,ja abnor hotel
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with glass elevators, isia Gaeta aPeeeceion in itself.
Aun cmeratee aes Cmenarsnrer
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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 enciloch 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 qos nous ing for souls iv
“the south, you Sieh of ee ‘ i a Negro writer.
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dent Johnson to SSP connesion on Civil Disorders |
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\civil rights Lfater| once ee ) |
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When Congress Sate the model cities legislation, allen
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saa aaa woula be eae le aalte submit jan application
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garded by HUD officials as the pest model cities plan oe | |
mitted. aclanta sis! was song Sie [eiataet 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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THALER
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Ea TIT BLAS eee rane
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tlanta its BAVOuaD e image. The man is
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when he
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jsince been expanded; Sweat’ is
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‘o£ urban official, the city ramrod, His
presi get solved} programs
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ication. "The mayor told me to
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and submit it before any|other city. I a
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,budget would be. He|said/there would be
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ad have. said
him how mach stags I woul H
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ino budget."
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agencies. "I agied them for the best man
[job ete the man
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later, galt 2 model cities sotidatden
is nét without |its Hbsiichat I
may typity iets that grips the urb
see era Eee
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pee The city has had its riot. Le Al
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gated cityrB5% aoulersiats according to
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thousands of the city’ s ae
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ing in subtstandard | lunits. The
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newal projects jhas aggravated jthe housing problem.
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The rate of construction of public
units nas not Hee Hie. to, the heed.
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hou
weeeae
emanate
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lseeking j@ way \to get rents: below, $55 ‘a month,
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federal funds.
an example of
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officials! and businessmen oy to get things
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I wanted from gach agency
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many jof them Ne
success of the
mPR” | re oe paaias by
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ixelocate eae families displaced by Poveramens
tes
Dan Sweat
joined) the city government | his job was to
office is
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Sweat was responsible for Atlanta's model cities
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put together an applicati
sked
no budget.
none
they had
airs.
n fact,
an ce
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one
sing
The
a new
done:
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index’
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1972
and 2
city
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The job has
breed
where
get started; where government
him what the
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Sweat started making telephone calls to city and county
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Two weeks
the ci y
of
eases pee owe bs
urban re-
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By
just
action.
where! ithe |i
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Lon
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staff ’
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for this
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I took
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to
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Wit Teds
AMERICAN BUILDER AUTH
74d Vibe te ba ee AUT R —TYALER—__———_____
SLUG CENTENNIAL
MONTH »
MONTH | MS. NO. :
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PICAS a cu 29 ou Aj 54 GY fi}
rer ers (Fn aa ESR i ote aR ie IS eae IOC T ISG tS acns oe ii Raa
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seh san 15, 1966, Allen canvened a ag earapcs on housing,
setae by thie power atructure of, the city. "The apenas
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lhe told the group, /'is simply this Atlanta does not ahve |
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i Previous | Hecads, he oT government action urban renewal,
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| highway construction, code enfoxcement}fhad resulted in
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| the pisplacement o£ 21,000 families, or| 67,000 people.
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"The majority of the families and individuals forced |
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{| to move were Negro. Most were) poor’, Approximately) 50% be
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75% had incomes under $5000 | year....about 15% were
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| large families| with] six or more maeapingsie | |
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} Allen announced the Brea of|a citizens committee |
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Zu ULwhich would give ci Rechion to new program.| The goal: |
~, yoo G,| 89 | Lg
eae units by ssa OS units by the ene of pe year.
i Atlanta's builders, for the|most; part, are|not oe
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ested in participating in the|city/s housing program. Ex-
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“consensus seems to be that several YeaEe ago| the home
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'builders'| association approached the city with a proposal
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,to give builders quotas of low- and moderate; income housing , |
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} spreading) the risk and dividing the time ee be
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"Spent away from the |more profitable ee: budlaing which
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‘predominates in the ;metropolitan Bs The city, Te oe |
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(part, would form a nonprofit corporation and sexve as de- |
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iveloper of che projects. The proposal was rejected. te
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Now, much of] the turnkey oi 22S
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The goal of 9,800/units by the oT
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be reached. Allen is confident,
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eat of > junits by 1972 can be
eee re ee er
jnole jin a | reasonable amount of
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time
(Up the pipeline in the first 18 months. We'll easily get
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“E-050 units. We'
pie eth ed
icommunity / the
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‘magnitude lof the whole effort
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ene of Commerce,
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OF
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government and
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Aldermen. About) a
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peeae was ready to
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men balked. Someone had come to the
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go to contract
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producing prefabricated concrete houses with an on-site!
Pe ep te
other eiti
contact with, ei
though,
ve got the support
he needs the cooperation
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| Greensboro, Marvin Warner of Cincinnatij-‘and
d of jthis
that
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Of Eh
the news
is expanding."
that! the
mayor ofa city with a weak-m
when
city] with
ox Plant. “Hel had no prototype and no plant|" Al
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bere ahem hk. wal
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Lined!
Lest HHLC c
can pull this thing
week before he was interviewed,
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the Board
a Ls
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media.
word
ML a
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housing is being
orp. of
the home
The,
is not
ayor form of
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of the Board of|
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a turnkey
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an idea for
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Len 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 ae situation,
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raising the aes a
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the possibiiity| |
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“urban | housing problem brings a | forceful
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easy way. ba aT the
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merely
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technological breakthrough or |
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of finding a program that will solve the
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make | people believe there is no
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instant solution Be jal of a
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problems only a¢aays|ehe issue! The ‘housing Stabielh has got
fepubiis Lana
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SLUG ___ CENTENNIAL _- Atlanta
MONTH MS. NO. 5
CAS Hii 20 30 ag 59 ou 10
pTTTT TT yer T) eo Rarely MoE SV Geaaah yl a A | CEP et
[to be settled now. It's not going to wait for a change |i. | |
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ithe form of government or a new construction method or |a | |
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snew program. Trying |to find the magic eiecon causes
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“lays. The | [hell Paaawtes | | i |
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: Not = all Atlantans in or euk, ee government share Allen n's
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‘sense of urgency. National Homes brought in, low-cost Sanglc=
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(gonily houses for
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found codes to [be a jproblem. National in
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ling and wiring /in its factory,
the Thomasville urban
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ny nee a aE
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obtained from the
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ithe houses. salted was
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57S without the plumbing) trees, plastic
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bathtub, and presup pare se
hia” Be a
raising ap as Les a house. |
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Denima Rees stated ina subsequent report t
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discriminate against mass ;produced,
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pane Plumbing and Electrical Advisory Boards are composed
oe permit
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Building Department was suff
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the plumbing and electrical inspectors denied
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and wiring, £rom its models and) ship| the rest of
renewal area and
stalled the plumb-
forced to xip out the plumbing
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pipe
system. Lt seo by | |
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~ The! city planning fepartment| and | the Housing Resources
chat |'City
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_predominantly of representatives of labor and
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Lees
bem
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icient. But
j at fiber
codes —
prefabricated housing.
trade unions.
These! boards strongly influence changes and interpretations
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of the City's Electrical and Plumbing Codes. Their |concern
raed |
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is maintenance of the status quo of |their trade’ rather than
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new time- and labor-saving materials and
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““ another problem is|zoning. Under preser
a ye ee
of Atlanta's Low-cost housing must be mul
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acinus less. |
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tifamily units,
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But only 6 acres of javailable jland jin the city is izoned
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multifamily. al Seduié, | |
et i itty
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almost every proposed housing |
Prert ite nee
most
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| project has to} be preceded by/| rezoning. Since Allen is
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an 5 an Am So mir,
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| tegration) of government-assisted housing, the rezoning! a- |
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mounts: to} a request] to pteguate formerly all-white |
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| neighborhoods. Two obstacles have been raised, one by the |
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federal government. HUD regulations state that public
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hous ing cannot! be built a racially identifiable areas.
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! The presumption is that ie housing is to be| built outside
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the Negro) ghetto. But HUD officials ie to building |. |
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ij pu ublic hous ing in all-white neighborhoots because] they
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| were: ‘racially identifiable | as all-wnite! The| city, then, |
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| co ula plage public housing in neither ee ile nor all-
egro neighborhoods} r | |
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There was iltench earlier this year that HUD was chang- |
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Lawes that policy, just as/ FHA was changing a policy of next
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| Spprovixg) mortgage pHeuEsTee for a|/ project in an area where i |
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ev there might be| competition with other FHA-insured|housing .
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juntil the) other housing was sold or rented. {The program,"
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becadlass ats Sones, aietcos of af Housing Resources |
ore “cahtt wake chat Leng." |
whe pyereea ease afford the time required, for rezoning, |
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either, and the city this year was/ rallying support for
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la city-wide cezoning. a ae aii to fight the, |
“zoning battles one ata time. “There ' s not ehough | low? |
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' income woheamg| eo make an equitable distribution oe |
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“Tout the Heys beipl ek "S0 elie | aay on tng losk where |
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‘the housing is| Letts to L built says, jway ine? is |
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imiddle- -class attitude hasn' 6 changed. There's still rer
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Piette
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sistance."
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Pi eee per
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that three
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proposed
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electrical codes changed
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}application which drew praise |from
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ithe city was willing to suspend codes to permi cexperi+
‘mentation | with! new Perel. oa
The planning | phase of the model cities
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ibe completed this £411. Ed Logue, one of the
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titioners ‘of urban renewal and the | man who 3Ges credit
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‘knowing how to)
geaie |e model cities program |"promises
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gram as the salvation of |the city, jeither.
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‘five years to execute, assuming Congress provides
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ithat | is needed }" ne says.
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| requires a minimum lot size of 7,500 sq|
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frontage or 60", and a minimum house size of
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Jones wants the minimums
and 720
| housing until this is done." | |
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Jones also tried unsuccessfully to get the
housing is being built. But unions);and manufacturers team
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| up to Oppose code changes." |
Jones thinks| the code issue will
Indeed, one of the
Iproduce." Allen doesnit regard the | jPLO=3}
ho eta Lan Gr
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pS SSM Ey, rT {Tir tT ran
hous ing isn “¢ readers in Atlanta
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single- family houses very badly," says
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not pucugh profit +3 them." The city
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bay
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810 sq. et.
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reduced to 5,000 sq; ft. | for bong
, Sq, ee. for line house. “rye
times in writing a the last year) ®
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going to get interest in; sing
le-family
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plumbing and
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for National Homes.|"I've pro-
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in Atlanta's
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program was to
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best pracy
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federal bureaucrats expedite projects,
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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 Piminted atsse meerbeeeoee) pike | impeovenaies Not
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lUia single person moved out of an urban renewal area WhO)
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(didn! = improve his housing. The success jof urban renewal
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/has been phenonenal The jnature of | the model | cities area
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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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,ing Resources Committee are, nonetheless | tacit admission
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were!"
jthat | the rehousing ne of es Letts might 5 ae been
inandied pecter/Min 7 Atlanta as jin other Teal, | | |
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20: 20 eactory," alien ia his conzerence on housing in |1966, |
“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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gully achieved | in Atlanta." | | | |
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The same report concluded that “only about |11% 0 of the yd |
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displacees £rom urban rerlewal ie apparently qualified |
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for public housing were relocated in public housing; Sec-
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‘ion 221 housing has not effectively met the needs of the
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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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ehh Meee beta ciclcnm Meitelaeekea |
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iG available| to eee and /2, 100
white famiiten| renting for $55
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bigger magnet for the state’ s rural poor
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housing units
month or less
If\|there is anything which distinguishes Atlanta from
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it is|the willingness todefine
‘nation's condition that Atlanta and its
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jin from the state capitol
the dity's problems.
w York and Chicago,
BEnee life in the
spicion among C
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the plight of
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‘tions+Hand Georgia is not} one of thempthe states have
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Bape kcepeenaien Eng rural areas to stem he mi-
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thr ough! his state, government rather than directly
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says, arth, “they' ve probably been/a party to it. Anyone
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a lesser Loita! I'm Heagiy disappoint ed they didn't move
in this area." | |
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former mayor Loe dnd now a member of
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iget it out of there! It sticks like glue."
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Allen eons publicly that the federal government has
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£41 igiven Atlanta full cooperation . Is | |there too |much |}red tape?
ed ce, al ie ee, Lo
i "Red | tape; erhichat' s always | the cry. . can we get government
¢ aa j | | | |
|financing without some red et Is FHA slow? "Not aa eg
[as some architects. We' vs waited as long as six months |
35 | for an arkhitant to come | up with plane. | |
ee probably true chat Atlanta /has fewer problems with
HUD than do most cities. ‘put the problems are Skate PHA
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‘was making market analyses in Atlanta without consulting
the city, and +ts estimate of [the demand for nghenetenat>
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/come | housing was considerably | less |than |the city's esti-
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mate of the need. Yet — city can it fulfill the need un-
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\léess FHA is wiling | to issue the mortgage commitments. |
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Citizen support of Allen's programs surpasses the sup- |
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_port!most mayors | receive, | Sometimes / jit [is |moxe ivigorous iiilisii iit iil
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; estate besiaxeh usually a conservative group] when! approach-)
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ar 3 ai wf ca
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The city-wide Hezening) Broppaatl was being supported by
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| Real estate brokers} looked the list over and|
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| ing urban problems ,| helped fill the void left by the city's
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| builders. The Housing Resources Committee, a citizen's
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| group which has no. legal] power, asked ene inter-
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ested in selling to) list) their propertits with the ERC.
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on it. "The brokers," says ERC diclatell gael “are rer
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Other groups; combined efforts to; push! for - loc
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housing law. Allen didn't oppose it but | wondered how any-
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/one could, determine) the need for al Local. ordinance when
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ZUi"we haven't had time to try the national law) yet.!
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‘posals to build integrated housing. They contend the market
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Builders in the city are more than cautious about pro-
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/xequires segregation in yousing’s two markets black and
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fall §
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‘other. They are supported, to!a degree, jby a report of |
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the Georgia State Advisory Committee to|the U.S. Commission
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,on Civil Rights, which found that segregation in Aelante
‘is greater than in most other southern citi ies. But the |re-
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-port|was no brief for builder ae MERG a of builders
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that; they can do nothing | to aid the establishment [of an
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open housing eee i the community eliminates preju-
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dice' seemed to} the Committee a denial of basic responsi-
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bee Meee alee: coils LE Ed pute
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be interested
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| pilaty and further underscored the! need| for effective | |
| deaeieat and iota ie tae against discrimination by | ;
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the housing industry." | | ; | |
3. Atlanta, may be che eaahing becunh for| the national thi | |
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| housing law, according to some builders} It seemed as | | |
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| though the housing industry was being put to|the test dne | |
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| day last spring when a large number of church and eivhe |
(9 groups eorneote a conference on equality of opportunity | |
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on ae at ae ae Plaga HoEehs pre thenout vas| | |
| large. The entire spectrun of| the pousing industry was) vex |
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| presented: eel an Willians, chairman of, the | Community| | |
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wh the Atlanta nabs as Board| Marion crane, | if wat yere | | ,
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| any Negroes on) the board. | | | | | |
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! "No," said nin vas sear ae ever applied." | | |
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"Would you accept|a Negro if he did apply?} asked Williams. | |
20) “after vanuary Ey crane replies a. | | | |
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"Then you do|diacbininats against Negroes now?" | |
"That if eettects4 ' ‘| | | ! | |
Williams vas equally stroct |i cvostionin Otis Thorpe, | |
, ‘president of the all-Negro Empire Real Estate Board: "omen | |
seat it seene that even though Fe do segregate = boards |
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(laughter fx om the audience you ¢ get cesethes when a | |
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neighborhood is in trans ition /and set pesous gs than ;
they normally wou1a |be ranked: lee that right? | | . |
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e“i- Thorpe and Crane denied the charge, mat tnd reaction lof ! |
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‘the audience indicated see thought wtdiano pad soci | | !
‘a nerve. Williams was ls caytionea Pee emotion and 2é- | | |
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ivised to stay with facts. | ! | ! | |
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we going co do! about oe America, is long on rhetoric!
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“rand short as hell on doing what it) ought to do."
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i That apeach, | too, | prought applause, and it! was obvious |
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that! however far ahead of other cities Atlanta is!in solv-
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AY Vu AH wi Du
Sere mm Preyer | ror PL a
ears Ae considered a ie ole 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 the central Runes’ district crackles with construc-
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tion activity. The eee House,ja abnor hotel
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with glass elevators, isia Gaeta aPeeeceion in itself.
Aun cmeratee aes Cmenarsnrer
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iA new sports dies stands in the Apress ore of those
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| Seeeetee used by “ae Chamber of Commerce-type groups boost-
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acaaan come to the city in the past few years. |
The mayor. ivan shies TX s:9 has enciloch 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 qos nous ing for souls iv
“the south, you Sieh of ee ‘ i a Negro writer.
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dent Johnson to SSP connesion on Civil Disorders |
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When Congress Sate the model cities legislation, allen
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saa aaa woula be eae le aalte submit jan application
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|for a planning grant. rt plead the speniolein is 2 : |
garded by HUD officials as the pest model cities plan oe | |
mitted. aclanta sis! was song Sie [eiataet 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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THALER
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Ea TIT BLAS eee rane
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tlanta its BAVOuaD e image. The man is
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when he
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jsince been expanded; Sweat’ is
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‘o£ urban official, the city ramrod, His
presi get solved} programs
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SS ae Se: PR LY
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ication. "The mayor told me to
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and submit it before any|other city. I a
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,budget would be. He|said/there would be
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Ae ee a ere
ad have. said
him how mach stags I woul H
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ino budget."
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agencies. "I agied them for the best man
[job ete the man
= oie ete them in a na upst
later, galt 2 model cities sotidatden
is nét without |its Hbsiichat I
may typity iets that grips the urb
see era Eee
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gated cityrB5% aoulersiats according to
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thousands of the city’ s ae
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ing in subtstandard | lunits. The
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newal projects jhas aggravated jthe housing problem.
14h 2 3
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The rate of construction of public
units nas not Hee Hie. to, the heed.
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hou
weeeae
emanate
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lseeking j@ way \to get rents: below, $55 ‘a month,
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federal funds.
an example of
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officials! and businessmen oy to get things
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I wanted from gach agency
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many jof them Ne
success of the
mPR” | re oe paaias by
n
ixelocate eae families displaced by Poveramens
tes
Dan Sweat
joined) the city government | his job was to
office is
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Sweat was responsible for Atlanta's model cities
as
put together an applicati
sked
no budget.
none
they had
airs.
n fact,
an ce
s Sedit a
one
sing
The
a new
done:
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index’
gro,
1972
and 2
city
Tess
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Vil
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The job has
breed
where
get started; where government
him what the
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Sweat started making telephone calls to city and county
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Two weeks
the ci y
of
eases pee owe bs
urban re-
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By
just
action.
where! ithe |i
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Lon
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staff ’
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for this
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ay
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MONTH | MS. NO. :
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rer ers (Fn aa ESR i ote aR ie IS eae IOC T ISG tS acns oe ii Raa
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seh san 15, 1966, Allen canvened a ag earapcs on housing,
setae by thie power atructure of, the city. "The apenas
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lhe told the group, /'is simply this Atlanta does not ahve |
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= shasta or future governmental action which will be)
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i Previous | Hecads, he oT government action urban renewal,
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| highway construction, code enfoxcement}fhad resulted in
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| the pisplacement o£ 21,000 families, or| 67,000 people.
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"The majority of the families and individuals forced |
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| these people had incomes! under $3,000 a! year} and about |
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75% had incomes under $5000 | year....about 15% were
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| large families| with] six or more maeapingsie | |
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} Allen announced the Brea of|a citizens committee |
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Zu ULwhich would give ci Rechion to new program.| The goal: |
~, yoo G,| 89 | Lg
eae units by ssa OS units by the ene of pe year.
i Atlanta's builders, for the|most; part, are|not oe
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ere at's \ | . , |
ested in participating in the|city/s housing program. Ex-
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“consensus seems to be that several YeaEe ago| the home
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'builders'| association approached the city with a proposal
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,to give builders quotas of low- and moderate; income housing , |
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} spreading) the risk and dividing the time ee be
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"Spent away from the |more profitable ee: budlaing which
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‘predominates in the ;metropolitan Bs The city, Te oe |
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(part, would form a nonprofit corporation and sexve as de- |
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iveloper of che projects. The proposal was rejected. te
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The goal of 9,800/units by the oT
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be reached. Allen is confident,
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eat of > junits by 1972 can be
eee re ee er
jnole jin a | reasonable amount of
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time
(Up the pipeline in the first 18 months. We'll easily get
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“E-050 units. We'
pie eth ed
icommunity / the
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‘magnitude lof the whole effort
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go to contract
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producing prefabricated concrete houses with an on-site!
Pe ep te
other eiti
contact with, ei
though,
ve got the support
he needs the cooperation
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| Greensboro, Marvin Warner of Cincinnatij-‘and
d of jthis
that
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says
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Of Eh
the news
is expanding."
that! the
mayor ofa city with a weak-m
when
city] with
ox Plant. “Hel had no prototype and no plant|" Al
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bere ahem hk. wal
ty he
Lined!
Lest HHLC c
can pull this thing
week before he was interviewed,
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the Board
a Ls
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media.
word
ML a
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housing is being
orp. of
the home
The,
is not
ayor form of
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of the Board of|
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a turnkey
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an idea for
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Len 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 ae situation,
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raising the aes a
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the possibiiity| |
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“urban | housing problem brings a | forceful
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easy way. ba aT the
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technological breakthrough or |
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of finding a program that will solve the
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[to be settled now. It's not going to wait for a change |i. | |
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ithe form of government or a new construction method or |a | |
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snew program. Trying |to find the magic eiecon causes
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“lays. The | [hell Paaawtes | | i |
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: Not = all Atlantans in or euk, ee government share Allen n's
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‘sense of urgency. National Homes brought in, low-cost Sanglc=
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(gonily houses for
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found codes to [be a jproblem. National in
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ling and wiring /in its factory,
the Thomasville urban
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ithe houses. salted was
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57S without the plumbing) trees, plastic
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bathtub, and presup pare se
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raising ap as Les a house. |
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Denima Rees stated ina subsequent report t
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discriminate against mass ;produced,
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pane Plumbing and Electrical Advisory Boards are composed
oe permit
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Building Department was suff
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the plumbing and electrical inspectors denied
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and wiring, £rom its models and) ship| the rest of
renewal area and
stalled the plumb-
forced to xip out the plumbing
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system. Lt seo by | |
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_predominantly of representatives of labor and
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prefabricated housing.
trade unions.
These! boards strongly influence changes and interpretations
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of the City's Electrical and Plumbing Codes. Their |concern
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is maintenance of the status quo of |their trade’ rather than
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new time- and labor-saving materials and
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of Atlanta's Low-cost housing must be mul
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tifamily units,
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But only 6 acres of javailable jland jin the city is izoned
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mounts: to} a request] to pteguate formerly all-white |
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federal government. HUD regulations state that public
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hous ing cannot! be built a racially identifiable areas.
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the Negro) ghetto. But HUD officials ie to building |. |
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ij pu ublic hous ing in all-white neighborhoots because] they
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| co ula plage public housing in neither ee ile nor all-
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ev there might be| competition with other FHA-insured|housing .
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juntil the) other housing was sold or rented. {The program,"
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becadlass ats Sones, aietcos of af Housing Resources |
ore “cahtt wake chat Leng." |
whe pyereea ease afford the time required, for rezoning, |
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either, and the city this year was/ rallying support for
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la city-wide cezoning. a ae aii to fight the, |
“zoning battles one ata time. “There ' s not ehough | low? |
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' income woheamg| eo make an equitable distribution oe |
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“Tout the Heys beipl ek "S0 elie | aay on tng losk where |
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electrical codes changed
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‘knowing how to)
geaie |e model cities program |"promises
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‘five years to execute, assuming Congress provides
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frontage or 60", and a minimum house size of
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Jones wants the minimums
and 720
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Jones also tried unsuccessfully to get the
housing is being built. But unions);and manufacturers team
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| up to Oppose code changes." |
Jones thinks| the code issue will
Indeed, one of the
Iproduce." Allen doesnit regard the | jPLO=3}
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hous ing isn “¢ readers in Atlanta
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single- family houses very badly," says
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not pucugh profit +3 them." The city
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bay
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810 sq. et.
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reduced to 5,000 sq; ft. | for bong
, Sq, ee. for line house. “rye
times in writing a the last year) ®
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going to get interest in; sing
le-family
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plumbing and
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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 Piminted atsse meerbeeeoee) pike | impeovenaies Not
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(didn! = improve his housing. The success jof urban renewal
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/has been phenonenal The jnature of | the model | cities area
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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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,ing Resources Committee are, nonetheless | tacit admission
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were!"
jthat | the rehousing ne of es Letts might 5 ae been
inandied pecter/Min 7 Atlanta as jin other Teal, | | |
| "Some say on eat record on relocation has beer satis- |
20: 20 eactory," alien ia his conzerence on housing in |1966, |
“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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gully achieved | in Atlanta." | | | |
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The same report concluded that “only about |11% 0 of the yd |
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displacees £rom urban rerlewal ie apparently qualified |
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see Stine is La |
for public housing were relocated in public housing; Sec-
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‘ion 221 housing has not effectively met the needs of the
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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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ehh Meee beta ciclcnm Meitelaeekea |
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white famiiten| renting for $55
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‘and initiate action |to solve them.
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‘short of solution the action falls.
ie lehat should Atlanta succeed in
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national acclaim for doing something-Yanything: however
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ito help Allen solve
jin Pittsburgh and Ne
‘continue to seek the
continues, and
those already in its
bigger magnet for the state’ s rural poor
No one is rushing
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slums,
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rental supply for both white
‘families, | the need in number ¢ of units today
Regardless of} structura
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housing units
month or less
If\|there is anything which distinguishes Atlanta from
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it is|the willingness todefine
‘nation's condition that Atlanta and its
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jin from the state capitol
the dity's problems.
w York and Chicago,
BEnee life in the
spicion among C
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of about | 5,300 housing units
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or Washington
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in Atlanta,
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Yet,
the sural
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the plight of
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‘tions+Hand Georgia is not} one of thempthe states have
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only by
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to the cities. Ask any
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shown, little interest in helping their cities), at at |
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Bape kcepeenaien Eng rural areas to stem he mi-
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thr ough! his state, government rather than directly
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and the answer is almost al-
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| Pon states ee done nothing to stem on tt Seen
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says, arth, “they' ve probably been/a party to it. Anyone
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| can move into a rooming house and wait until the hous ing
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, code! catches up with Suet. na states eaviidn t, have played |
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a lesser Loita! I'm Heagiy disappoint ed they didn't move
in this area." | |
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former mayor Loe dnd now a member of
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1G the faculty of|MIT,!toldja nabedag os the Urban Land In-
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pees have displayed all of the dynamism, all of/the
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' desire EOF innovation, of the |dinosauer!"
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i Says Pit tsburgh Mayor goe Barr: "Work |with|the states?
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[I was in | set nai Ia he state legislaturey for|20 years |
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and I know what happens to urban legislation, You can}t-
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iget it out of there! It sticks like glue."
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Allen eons publicly that the federal government has
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£41 igiven Atlanta full cooperation . Is | |there too |much |}red tape?
ed ce, al ie ee, Lo
i "Red | tape; erhichat' s always | the cry. . can we get government
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|financing without some red et Is FHA slow? "Not aa eg
[as some architects. We' vs waited as long as six months |
35 | for an arkhitant to come | up with plane. | |
ee probably true chat Atlanta /has fewer problems with
HUD than do most cities. ‘put the problems are Skate PHA
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‘was making market analyses in Atlanta without consulting
the city, and +ts estimate of [the demand for nghenetenat>
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/come | housing was considerably | less |than |the city's esti-
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mate of the need. Yet — city can it fulfill the need un-
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\léess FHA is wiling | to issue the mortgage commitments. |
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Citizen support of Allen's programs surpasses the sup- |
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_port!most mayors | receive, | Sometimes / jit [is |moxe ivigorous iiilisii iit iil
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The city-wide Hezening) Broppaatl was being supported by
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| Real estate brokers} looked the list over and|
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| ing urban problems ,| helped fill the void left by the city's
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| builders. The Housing Resources Committee, a citizen's
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| group which has no. legal] power, asked ene inter-
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ested in selling to) list) their propertits with the ERC.
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on it. "The brokers," says ERC diclatell gael “are rer
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Other groups; combined efforts to; push! for - loc
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housing law. Allen didn't oppose it but | wondered how any-
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‘posals to build integrated housing. They contend the market
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Builders in the city are more than cautious about pro-
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/xequires segregation in yousing’s two markets black and
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‘other. They are supported, to!a degree, jby a report of |
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the Georgia State Advisory Committee to|the U.S. Commission
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,on Civil Rights, which found that segregation in Aelante
‘is greater than in most other southern citi ies. But the |re-
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-port|was no brief for builder ae MERG a of builders
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that; they can do nothing | to aid the establishment [of an
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open housing eee i the community eliminates preju-
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dice' seemed to} the Committee a denial of basic responsi-
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bee Meee alee: coils LE Ed pute
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| pilaty and further underscored the! need| for effective | |
| deaeieat and iota ie tae against discrimination by | ;
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the housing industry." | | ; | |
3. Atlanta, may be che eaahing becunh for| the national thi | |
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| housing law, according to some builders} It seemed as | | |
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| though the housing industry was being put to|the test dne | |
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| day last spring when a large number of church and eivhe |
(9 groups eorneote a conference on equality of opportunity | |
rt a pe ! | | PW |
on ae at ae ae Plaga HoEehs pre thenout vas| | |
| large. The entire spectrun of| the pousing industry was) vex |
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| presented: eel an Willians, chairman of, the | Community| | |
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wh the Atlanta nabs as Board| Marion crane, | if wat yere | | ,
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| any Negroes on) the board. | | | | | |
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! "No," said nin vas sear ae ever applied." | | |
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"Would you accept|a Negro if he did apply?} asked Williams. | |
20) “after vanuary Ey crane replies a. | | | |
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"Then you do|diacbininats against Negroes now?" | |
"That if eettects4 ' ‘| | | ! | |
Williams vas equally stroct |i cvostionin Otis Thorpe, | |
, ‘president of the all-Negro Empire Real Estate Board: "omen | |
seat it seene that even though Fe do segregate = boards |
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(laughter fx om the audience you ¢ get cesethes when a | |
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neighborhood is in trans ition /and set pesous gs than ;
they normally wou1a |be ranked: lee that right? | | . |
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e“i- Thorpe and Crane denied the charge, mat tnd reaction lof ! |
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‘the audience indicated see thought wtdiano pad soci | | !
‘a nerve. Williams was ls caytionea Pee emotion and 2é- | | |
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ivised to stay with facts. | ! | ! | |
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we going co do! about oe America, is long on rhetoric!
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“rand short as hell on doing what it) ought to do."
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