Approving Progress Report Under the Workable Program for Community Improvement

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MUG•lodl (11 bd) 1 HOUSING AND RELOCATION t REQUIREMENTS. This element contains requirements with respect to both the community's need for housi and the need for effective relocation programs, which are treated separately below. ng HOUSING;11E1V Identify and analyze REQ UtIZE the gap between the community's low- and moderate-income housing EQTS. needs and the resources available to meet the need, and develop and implement a meanin - ful action program to help overcome the gap. g 1. On the basis of presently available information and locally determined standards, provide an estimate of th number of low- and moderato-income families presently living in substandard housing, by race, and the nume I! ber of standard housing units presently vacant and available at prices or rentals such families can ' pay•' afford to 1 . Recent studies conducted by the Area Plan Commission and the Substandard i Department of the City of South Bend have identified approximately 1680 seriously deficient housing units. Ths represents approximately 4% of all housin units! g i.ts in the City. 1,176 of these housing units are occupied , with 74% or 870 units, occu- ! pied by minorities. Housin units,, presently vacant and available at a price that . I . families housed in substandard units can afford, are as -follows; I! Monthly private rental market . Private sales housin 145 units g, priced below ,$6,000 60 units Rent supplement housing Public housing for families 237 units 134 units Public housing units for elderly 194 units � ! Many low income families are finding it feasible to pure-ase sales housing, uti- lizing the 235 low interest home ownership 2. Describe how the above estimate was made, and what plansthegcommunity has to develop basis an accurate inventory of low- and moderate-income housing needs and resources. on a continuing Housing conditions were based on recent surveys, conducted by a the Are Plan Com— , mission and the Substandard Building Department, City of South Be ,. and low income housing identified in Item (1) represents housing units that are, or will be available, by April, 1970. The plans the community has to develop on _a continuous basis for an accurate inventory of low and moderate income housing needs and resources will be a function of the proposed "Assured Rousing Program nor St. Joseph County, Indiana. Note Page 4, Item 3 of the Assured Housing Program Report, identified as Exhibit 1, and Page 12 of the Coordination identified as Zxh:.bit Zr.. ination in Housing Report, ! Both reports are submitted as supplements to the Workable Program Report., � ** Changes that have `been made since the original submission. -