HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 081160K - Insure Housing For All Displaced By Coronado Urban Renewal Project - 08_11_1960 {` R E S 0 L U T 1 0 N
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 gov-
erning body of the city must find that " a feasible method exists for
the location of families or individuals who will be displaced from the
urban renewal area in decent, safe and sanitary dwelling accomodations
within their means and without undue hardship to such families or in-
dividuals"; 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 area, 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 employments" and,
WHEREAS, the construction of these aforementioned dwellings should
coincide In timing with the relocation of families; 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
familiesl NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS:
SECTION I , THAT the City of Lubbock will take appropriate steps
to insure that all families displaced by action of the Coronado Jaxid
` Urban Renewal Area are offered decent, safe and sanitary housing
within their economic means.
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 Ordinances 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 responsi -
!bility 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 fails 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.
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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 inter-
viewer 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 llth day of AUGUST, , 1960.
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