Series III. Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Files, 1966-1969, inclusive

Includes specific country reports on Poland, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands; project outline; summaries; the HUD publication Industrialized Housing: A Comparative Analysis of European Experience; several booklets in German and French, particularly concerning Dusseldorf and Parlay 2 in Chesnay, Paris; and newspaper clippings in German and Italian concerning Zuccotti's visits there (December 1968).

Includes drafts of goals for metropolitan development; papers on proposed elements of a national land use policy, public and private sector roles in land use and development, and related issues; remarks by Land Development Director Dwight F. Rettie on planning; background paper on metropolitan area growth projections; and several addresses from 1966-68 by HUD Secretary Robert C. Weaver, which appear in part to be source material for a draft speech prepared by Zuccotti on the topic "Towards a National Urban Land Policy" (November 1968).

Includes documents related to HUD's response to President Lyndon B. Johnson's speech of 19 August 1966 in Syracuse, New York, in which he called on HUD to establish neighborhood service centers in "every ghetto in America." Primarily includes documents related to developing a pilot program in fourteen cities, including draft plans, program guides, inter-agency meetings, status reports, evaluations, and the like.

Includes, among other documents, the first draft of the task force's report (October 1967) and Zuccotti's report from the Program Policy Subcommittee of the task force.

Includes the first draft of the document, prepared by Richard W. O'Neill.

Includes the contents of a binder of working papers compiled by I.P. Margulies, Chairman of the HUD Task Force on Home Ownership, and distributed to the task force members and others.

Includes "Interim Report: Study of the Feasibility of an Urban Development Corporation" (1 September 1966);, documents related to a pilot proposal for a UDC (referred to as the Santa Barbara proposal, perhaps because the Defense Research Council, based in that city, was involved in preparing it); a "Proposal for a Nationally Based Private Non-Profit Urban Development Corporation to Rehabilitate and Replace Substandard Urban Slum Dwellings"; project budgets and timelines; and other documents.

Includes drafts of speeches for delivery in Cleveland titled "The Promise of the American City," other related remarks in draft and final form, other documents, and 5 booklets published by The Urban Institute.

Includes press releases, correspondence, notes, meetings, etc. regarding the life insurance industry's commitment of $1 billion to fund urban center housing development.

Includes mostly print matter concerning federal funding to states, with a HUD summary of a meeting of the Joint Economic Committee hearings on the subject.

Includes memos concerning programs and funding for open space land (including vest pocket parks), urban beautification and historic preservation (e.g., Cleveland's interest in using HUD funds to purchase the Astor Theater) in connection with metropolitan development.

Includes a draft memorandum of understanding between HUD and the Department of Transportation in connection with President Lyndon B. Johnson's Reorganization Plan No. 2 transfering functions from HUD to DOT (a printed copy of the plan is also in the file); a copy of Senator Jacob Javits's letter to HUD Secretary Weaver expressing concerns about the reorganization; and correspondence related to a dispute over the proposed demolition of a housing project in Cleveland to make way for an expressway.

The label of the original folder holding these documents was "Tenants' Rights." There are some notes and correspondence on that matter. In addition, there are press releases and memoranda on turnkey projects and memos concerning HUD's use of Professional Organization Representatives for advice on policy. The folders also include a copy of The Mayor's Task Force on Reorganization of New York City Government: Report and Proposed Local Law (December 1966) and a related draft note thanking Mayor John V. Lindsay for it, and two papers written by the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana (CVG) staff: "Planning and Administration of New Towns" (June 1963) and "Recommended Policies for Land Tenure in the City of Santo Tome de Guayana" (September 1963).

Includes correspondence, project summaries, and meeting notes, including a package of material for a conference at First National City Bank for the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and Bedford-Stuyvesant D and S Corporation.

Includes correspondence and memos about the project, including the script of a proposed movie, concerns about relocation, and a proposed project evaluation by the Joint Center for Urban Studies. Also includes statistics, memos, etc. concerning the Boston Housing Authority and its tenant selection, particularly with regard to "non-white occupancy."

Includes correspondence, memos, and a HUD Inspection Division's Report of Investigation concerning an allegation by former Florida governor Haydon Burns that the site for a turnkey project in Jacksonville was not properly selected.

Includes memos, correspondence, reports, clippings, and opposition concerning the Heritage Plaza -- East Urban Renewal Area.

Includes memos, correspondence, schedules, background reports, and other documents concerning the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects.

Includes a memo from Zuccotti to Undersecretary Wood concerning St. Louis's request for HUD funds for a stadium, and Wood's resulting letter to Congresswoman Leonor K. Sullivan.

Includes memos and press release concerning HUD's project to turn Parkchester Courts into a low income housing cooperative.

Includes summaries of HUD assistance prepared by Zuccotti for the Office of the Vice President in connection with, at least in some instances, upcoming trips by the Vice President. Cities included are: Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Springfield, Illinois; Brooklyn, New York; Tallahassee, Sanford, Orlando, and Cocoa, Florida; Indianapolis, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; New York City; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Raleigh, Winston-Salem, and Charlotte, North Carolina.

Includes various documents generally related to housing, including a HUD circular summarizing its new program under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968; a draft description of a grant program for public facilities in low income areas; notes of recommendations from an unidentified task force; the American Bar Association's Special Committee on Housing and Urban Development Law's paper on funding for a program of urban action sponsored by the ABA; memos on potential investments by union pension funds in housing; recommendations of an unidentified task force concerning "Increased HUD Consciousness of Slum Situations"; and a National Research Council paper "The Industrialization of Housing in the United States."

Includes a proposal from the University of Chicago for a federal grant to study "The Urban Negro American in the Twentieth Century" and a paper from the Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence "Six-City Study: A Survey of Racial Attitudes in Six Northern Cities: Preliminary Findings."

Includes minutes of the panel's first meeting (1 May 1968) and briefing papers and other documents in connection with its second meeting in July.

Includes a memo on planning a series of center city conferences; a list of general questions about operations; a draft memo from Mitchell Sviridoff about the President's Task Force on Government Organization; and some other minor documents.

Includes documents related to Congressman Brooke's expressed concerns about the administration of the low and moderate income program generally and in connection specifically with the Bryant Terrace project in Malden, Massachusetts. Includes correspondence, chronologies, background information, clippings, draft responses from HUD to Brooke, and other documents.

Includes copies of an exchange between U.S. Senator Charles H. Percy and Cox, Executive Director of the Norfolk Redevelopment & Housing Authority, in which Cox expresses support for HUD's administration of a FHA program. Zuccotti's notes and drafts in the file suggest he was consulted in advance of Cox's response to Percy.

Includes documents concerning housing-related legislation sponsored by or of interest to U.S. Senator Javits, including notes, Congressional Record tearsheets, and a copy of a letter from HUD Secretary Weaver to U.S. Senator John Sparkman.

Includes documents related to HUD's analysis of Kennedy's proposed health care legislation, prepared at Kennedy's request.

Includes copies of memos from Kennedy's office concerning housing, two bills (S. 2088 and S. 2100) sponsored by Kennedy in 1967, a cost analysis of a 1967 Kennedy housing bill, statement by Kennedy introducing S. 3029 (1968), Kennedy's press release announcing his candidacy for U.S. president, and resolutions passed at a 1968 Rural Conference by N.A.C.D. (full name is unidentified but is associated with the National Sharecroppers' Fund).

Includes the advance text of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's speech to the Congress on "Message on America's Unfinished Business: Urban and Rural Poverty" (1967), with related memos from HUD Secretary Weaver and Special Assistant to the President Joseph A. Califano, Jr.; talking points for the president for a meeting with the National Housing Incorporators (October 1968) and for the signing of a bill on interest rates on insured mortgages;, and White House press releases and other documents.

Includes a statement by HUD Secretary Robert C. Weaver before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Senate Committee on Government Operations on "The Role of the Federal Government in Urban Areas" (16 August 1966); three drafts of a speech (by Robert C. Wood?) titled "Vox Populi, Vox Dei--The Rule of All Good Governments"; a speech labeled "Introduction to Urbana Speech" from the third session of a series of "Centennial Symposia" (1968?); and a two page statement concerning the participatory role of citizens.

HUD publication with the remarks of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson at Syracuse on 19 August 1966.

Includes three books: Part 1, Part 2, and the Appendix to Part 1 of the Hearings before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the U.S. Committee on Government Operations.

HUD booklet concerning a project in Harlem conducted by the New York City Rent and Rehabilitation Administration.

Includes two copies of Commerce Clearing House's "Special Report" in its Urban Affairs Reports series compiling the recommendations of the Commission.

Staff report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Prepared by Louis H. Masotti & Jerome R. Corsi.

Published by Urban America, Inc. and the Urban Coalition

Staff report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Prepared by Hugh Davis Graham & Ted Robert Gurr.