HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 020961B - Ensure Housing Of Families Displaced By URA Coronado Project R-33 - 02_09_1961 O
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WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock and the Urban Renewal Agency of the
City of Lubbock have undertaken a program of slum clearance* redeve-
lopment and rehabilitation known as the Coronado Urban Renewal Project;
and,
WHEREAS* the Texas Urban Renewal Law requires as a prerequisite for
the approval of an urban renewal plan for a project area* that governing
body of the city must find that "a feasible method exists for the loca-
tion of families or Individuals who will be displaced from the urban re-
newal area in decent* safe and sanitary dwelling accomodations within
their means and without undue hardship to such families or Individuals";
and,
WHEREAS;', the Federal Housing Act of 1949, as amended through 1959
requires that loan-and capital grant contracts made between the local
Urban Renewal Agency and the Federal Government shall require: "There
be a feasible method for the temporary relocation of families displaced
from the urban renewal areal and that there are or are being provided
in the urban renewal area or in other places not generally less desira-
ble in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities
and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families dis-
placed from the urban renewal area decent, safe and sanitary dwellings
equal to the number of and available to such displaced families and
reasonably accessible to their places of employment;" and
WHEREAS, the construction of these aforementioned dwellings should
coincide in timing with the relocation of familless and*
WHEREAS* the City Commission of the City of Lubbock has received
definite assurance from builders and rental unit operators that the
aforementioned dwellings will be constructed and rented to such dis-
placed families at rents which are within the economic means of said
families; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCKr TEXAS:
SECTION 1 . THAT the City of Lubbock will take appropriate steps
to insure that all families displaced by action of the Coronado Urban
Renewal Area are offered decent, safe and sanitary housing within their
economic means.
To assist In accomplishing the above the City will authorize the
City-County Welfare Department to handle all problem cases referred to
them by the Lubbock Urban Renewal Agency (Coronado Project R-33) on a
�., priority basis; also these additional steps will be taken:
(a) Appoint special committee composed of representatives
from the Urban Renewal Agency* City-County Welfare
Department and Texas Employment Commission to review
needs of displaced families (1) those not meeting
regular welfare requirements, and (2) families eligi-
ble for welfare payments but whose totalability to
pay for shelter (including both regular welfare
�., shelter allowance and ability-to-pay for shelter from
own income) is less than the minimum rent of standard
housing available.
(b) Authorize City-County Welfare Department to carry out
recommendations of above committee to extent necessary
to insure the relocation of such families in housing
that meets standards in Section 2.
(c) Funds will be appropriated and kept available as welfare
money to accomplish the actionsthus determined as neces-
sary for relocation of such families.
SECTION 2. THAT decent, safe, and sanitary housing within the
economic means of the family to be displaced shall be housing which
meets the provisions of the Minimum Housing Standards Ordinancef and
further shall be housing whose gross monthly cost is within the
economic ability of the family to pay.
SECTION 3. THAT the City of Lubbock will assume no responsibility
for the relocation of a family which is evicted by the Urban Renewal
Agency of the City of Lubbock for any of the following reasons:
a■ A family falls to recognize its obligation to pay rent for
a site dwelling.
b. A family Is maintaining a nuisance or using the premises
for an Illegal purpose.
C. A family otherwise commits a material violation of the
provisions of the rental agreement.
d. A family refuses to consider accommodations which, in the
,judgment of the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Lubbock,
meet the local standards and are suitable for the family„
e. A family completely fails to cooperate with the Urban Renewal
Agency of the City of Lubbock. An example of such failure to
cooperate would be refusal to admit a relocation Interviewer
to Its home, coupled with persistent evasion of attempts made
by the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Lubbock to reach
the family by other reasonable means.
Passed by the Commission this 9th day of February, 1961.
DAVID C. CASEY
ATTEST:
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I—AVENIA LOWE, SITY SECRETARY-TREAMR—ER
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