Box 1, Folder 1, Document 17

Box 1, Folder 1, Document 17

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE AGENCY

OFFICE OF THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR
Room 645, Peachtree-Seventh Building
Atlanta, Georgia 30323

REGION II December 29, 1965



Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr.
Mayor of the City of Atlanta
City Hall

Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Dear Mayor Allen:

We appreciate your letter of December 16, 1965, advising of steps
being taken to employ additional personnel to assist in the execution
of Atlanta's Housing Code Compliance Program. We are also pleased to
learn that information being assembled on each of the 110,000 parcels
within the City will provide a means for properly evaluating progress
being made toward attaining the goals established in the City's
Housing Code Compliance Program.

Initial inspections under the Housing Code, periodically followed up
by re-inspections are, of course, only a means whereby the desired
result of compliance with the code can be obtained. The employment

of additional staff should enable the City to approach a better
balance between the three stages, initial inspections, re-inspections,
and eventual compliance. We encourage further steps in this direction
and assure you of our utmost cooperation in this endeavor.

Sincerely yours,
WL CMa —

cing iva Edward H. Baxter
Regional Administrator

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