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letters to the editorfrom page 4/more on 47th Street siteing good housing which is racially integrated and which appeals to the entire spectrum of economic and racial groups.This group has been offered the services of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference in a letter from Dr. Seymour Banks dated June 8th. Dr. Banks states that “this committee will serve as consultants for people named asdevelopers of the various residential sites if desired, in order to help see that the properties are resold as quickly as possible to owners who will contribute to the continued high standards of our neighborhood.* We have accepted this offer and plan to meet with Dr. Banks on June 25, 1964 at the officesof the Hyde Park-Kenwood Conference.Finally, we have begun discussions with Draper and Kramer exploring possibilities of its managing this project.In summary, this group restates its intention to construct housing in keeping with the objectives of Hyde Park-Kenwood to create a successfully integrated community while at the same time meeting the objectives of the Lrban Renewal program throughout Chicago.K F. NWOO D TOWN H OM ESCOMPANYBy: Douglass Turner Joseph Engel James Myers Al Kimmel Richard L. MandelRonald L. Barnard Executive Committee... objectsTo the editor:As members of United Cooperative Projects, an integrated cooperative housing organization, we would like to raise some objections to Mr. Irving Gerick's testimony to a committee of the City Council regarding the disposition of urban renewal sites along 47th Street.The Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference's objection to moderate income (221(d)3) housing on 47th Street is that it will not be integrated. The Conference states that the experience nationally with 221 (d)3 housing has been that it is not successfully integrated because moderate in--jme families have been traditionally opposed to integration. We question thisobjection and its implications on several points:(1) Has there been enough 221(d)3 housing built as yet for there to be a reliable •national experience* to refer to?(2) Evidently by *not integrated* the Conference means that moderate-in-come whites w'ould not move into 221(d)3 housing and it would thus be predominately Negro. What is the Conference's definition of •integrated*? Why is it apparently so much more concerned about integration on 47th Street than in the higher priced housing in Central and South Hyde Park?(3) Doesn't the Conference realize that there are plenty of families, both Negro and white, who are attracted to Hyde Park because it is a diverse andcosmopolitan community, who have only one full-time, income per family, and who are engaged in occupations whose pay is well within the moderate income limitations (including social workers, students, teachers, civil service workers, etc.)?United Cooperative Projects has provided moderate-cost housing in Hyde Park apartment buildings for twenty years. At present, half of the families in UCP have incomes which would qualify them as “moderate income* under the FHAregulations; of these families, 50% are white and 50% areNegro.During our planning of a 221(d)3 project proposed for LR-13 we received many inquiries from both white and Negro families. Fifteen families who qualified as moderate income filled out membership applications for the project; they were a similarly integrated group.The new housing which Kenwood Town Homes proposes will soon be the only housing which people of modest means can afford in Hyde Park-Kenwood. Our group has found that with high maintenance and rehabilitation costs for old buildings, it is becoming impossible to provide apartment housing in aging buildings at reasonable cost.We would like to commend the Kenwood Town Homes group for an excellent plan which makes optimal use of both indoor and outdoor space. We feel that their aims of providing much needed moderate-cost integrated housing are a refreshing change for HydePark-Kenwood.Barbara Byhouwer Wilbur Pieter Byhouwer Vera W, Dexter Ann B. Fredericksen Dick Fredericksen Anna Gadsden Katherine B. Hade Kirby Hade Maxine Harris Richard Harris Joseph Millet Diana Rader James E. Rader Dorothy Sandberg Glen SandbergNilda SosaVincent SosaGraduatesDevereaux Leslie Bowly, Jr., 5558 Kimbark, has received a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, recently.Bowly graduated from the University of Chicago High School and also attended the* Chicago branch of the University of Illinois.the shoe corralin the mollfeaturingJUMPING JACKSfor childrenHUSH PUPPIESP.F.’sthe largest selection of casuals in1530 Eas 667-9471HOURS:9:30 to 6Thursdays and Fridays 9:30 to 9Happy Father’sIf you find yoirr Cohn Stern gift a bit too large, a bit too small, ort
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