Approving & Authorizing the Execution of a Cooperation Agreement Between City of South Bend and Housing Authority of City of South Bend

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ORDINANCE NO., / O AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE, EXECUTION OF A COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, AND THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA: WHEREAS, The Housing Authority of the City of South Bend, Indiana", proposes to develop and administer a low -rent housing project or low -rent housing projects consisting of approximately Seven Hundred Fifty (750) dwelling units, and WHEREAS, there exist in the City of South Bend, unsafe and insanitary dwelling accommodations of a ,number greatly in ex -- eess of said Seven Hundred Fifty (750) dwelling units which are occupied by families.of low income and which constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals and welfare of the inhabitants of the City; and WHEREAS, there are now families of low income in the City of South Bend of a number greatly in excess of Seven Hundred Fifty (750) who are forced to inhabit such unsafe and insanitary dwell- ing accommodations, because private enterprise has not'been able to make available to such families, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations at rentals which such low income families can afford to pay,' NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT .ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BENDr Section l- That the City of South Bend shall enter into s Cooperat one Agreement with The Housing Authority of the City of ff South Bead," Indiana,.,, in•substantially,the,following; form: " COOPERATION :.AGREEMENT - t (1) ' The Housing Authority of the';City "of'South Bend, Indiana;'hereinafter called'the "Authority" agrees to undertake; develop and administer a low -rent housing Project or low-rent housing Projects in the City of South Bend, hereinafter called the "City ", and to endeavor to :secure a contract or contracts with the United States Housing Authority for Federal annual con tributions to assist in the administration of such Project or Projects. (2) In consideration therefor the City agrees that; as a part of such Projeet:or Projects, it'-will eliminate by de- molition, condemnation, effective closing, or by compulsory repair or improvement', a number of unsafe or insanitary dwelling units within its jurisdictional limits, at least equal in number to the number of new dwelling units to be provided in said Project or Projects to be undertaken by the authority, less the number, if any, of unsafe or insanitary dwelling units which will be eliminated on the site or sites of the Project or Projects by the 1