National Association of Real Estate Boards.. National Association of Social Workers__ National Association of State Universities & Land-Grant Colleges- Unversity of Arkansas.. University of Wisconsin 279 Urban Research Center. 378 454 HOUSING LEGISLATION OF 1966 TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1966 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY, SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSING, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10:05 a.m. in room 5302, New Senate Office Building, Senator John Sparkman (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Sparkman, Douglas, Proxmire, Williams, McIntyre, Tower, and Bennett. Senator SPARKMAN. Let the committee come to order, please. We have several Senators that will probably be coming in later, but we have a very heavy schedule and we should get started. Secretary Weaver has commitments and meetings and wishes to leave about noon, so I would like for us to move along as rapidly as we can. The hearings starting today and continuing through next week are for the purpose of taking testimony on all housing and urban development bills pending before this subcommittee. These include the administration bills, S. 2842, introduced by Senator Douglas, and S. 2977 and S. 2978 introduced by me; also several mass transportation bills introduced by Senator Harrison Williams and other Senators. In total, we have 26 bills covering a variety of subjects which are before the subcommittee for consideration during this session of Congress. Without objection, I shall place in the record a complete list of bills pending before the subcommittee at the conclusion of this statement. After last year's action by the Congress in approving one of the most comprehensive housing bills of all times, including the extension of expiring programs by a full 4 years up to 1969, I did not expect to have more than a few small amendments to be considered by the subcommittee this year. Frankly, I was quite surprised to receive the President's message on housing and urban development legislation. The President sent up not only one bill, but three bills, and at least one of these, the demonstration cities bill is proposing a Federal program of assistance to U.S. cities and counties on a scale far exceeding anything ever attempted by our Government. I have not had the opportunity to study all of these bills as thoroughly as I should have liked. I am looking forward to hearing testimony from Secretary Weaver and other witnesses in order to understand the details of what is being proposed. My first reaction to the demonstration cities bill was a favorable one in terms of the objectives of having all Federal programs of assistance to cities coordinated and made more efficient. Over the past several years we have added program upon program and agency upon agency providing financial assistance to the cities. It has become obvious that something needed to be done to coordinate these programs to insure a more orderly and equitable distribution of Federal assistance. The demonstration cities bill is intended to do this and, from this point of view, no one can argue against it. However, we shall examine the bill carefully with reference to its many implications, particularly those involving the Federal Government into the affairs of local governments, as I said a minute ago, beyond anything we have attempted heretofore. The problem, as usual, is the extent to which the idea will work without doling out too much carrot too hard on the stick. We have learned a lot about F tions through the urban renewal program and oth we have passed through this committee and through The demonstration cities program is a most ambit and I hope that the committee makes the maximum ings to raise questions with the witnesses about every posal and all other new material that is contained in t Of equal significance in terms of obtaining a 1 ordination of financial assistance programs in meti S. 2977, the Urban Development Act. This bill also brings into focus the coordination the Federal and local governmental units and present to develop a technique for getting the maximum retu in the development of our cities and their environs. question about the objective, but I believe it is short how the objectives are to be obtained. It is here that mittee will want to ask many questions and get a bett on the procedure being recommended under the bill. There seems to be one major gap in the bills befor proved techniques for rehabilitation housing. Ver said in the press or in comments on the administrati the thousands of people involved in the demonstrati are to be rehoused. Rent supplements and public h mentioned, but these programs could not begin to d contemplated. I have heard a great deal about public new schools, new streets and parks, but very little cities themselves on how they will tackle the most fru of all-providing decent housing for the low- and families. I hope the Secretary will tell us today how he co to be done on the scale envisioned under the den program. (The list of bills pending before the Subcommittee follows:) BILLS PENDING BEFORE HOUSING SUBCOMMIT S. 1850 (Bayh): Authorizes disaster loans under title V of 1949. S. 1915 (Bartlett): Authorizes a program of loans and gra Alaska to provide decent and suitable housing to person by decent housing otherwise. S. 2419 (Dominick): Makes Federal urban renewal assistanc ties upon publication of names of owners of rental propert which are used for residential purposes. S. 2477 (Kuchel): Authorization renewal assistance for renew of a locality containing war housing projects. S. 2520 (Williams of New Jersey): Provides loans for urge homes. S. 2599 (Tydings): Mass transportation. S. 2652 (Tydings): Makes 3-percent interest rate applicable t S. 2782 (Bayh): Authorizes disaster loans under farm housin S. 2935 (Javits): Mass transportation. S. 2958 (Fulbright): Permits certain local expenditures as for Little Rock, Ark. HOUSING LEGISLATION OF 1966 S. 2977 (Sparkman): Urban Development Act. 3 S. 2978 (Sparkman): Housing and Urban Development Amendments of 1966. S. 3058 (Javits): Permits the more effective operation of the cooperative man- S. 3061 (Magnuson): Mass transportation. S. 3097 (Muskie): Preservation of historic structures under urban renewal and related Federal programs. 0 S. 3116 (Hart): Authorizes mortgage insurance for seasonal homes. S. 3118 (Eastland): Permits certain local expenditures as title I grants-in-aid for Senatobia, Miss. S. 3146 (Robertson): Permits certain local expenditures as title I grants-in-aid for Roanoke, Va. S. 3211 (Sparkman): Permits certain local expenditures as title I grants-in-aid for Huntsville, Ala. S. 3212 (Sparkman): Permits certain local expenditures as title I grants-in-aid for Birmingham, Ala. S. 3213 (Sparkman): Permits certain local expenditures as title I grants-in-aid for Mobile, Ala. S. 3214 (Sparkman): Permits certain local expenditures as title I grants-in-aid for the University of Alabama. S. 3215 (Sparkman): Authorizes mortgage insurance and direct loans to help finance construction and equipping facilities for the group practice of medicine or dentistry. S. 3227 (Tydings): Mass transportation. S. 3232 (Ribicoff): Permits certain local expenditures as title I grants-in-aid for New Haven, Conn. S. 3248 (Ribicoff): Amends definition of "educational institution" under college housing loan program. S. 3255 (Bartlett): Provides assistance to residents of communities and rural areas of Alaska for needed public services, public facilities, and housing. S. 3262 (Tydings): Amends urban renewal law with reference to cities receiving reimbursement under the three-fourths capital grant formula to recognize certain local expenditures as eligible for Federal assistance. S. 3270 (Sparksman): Permits certain local expenditures as title I grants-in-aid for Ozark, Ala. S. 3282 (Sparkman): Authorizes financial assistance for urban renewal projects involving the central business district of a community. S. 3250 (Tydings): Authorizes urban renewal relocation payments to displaced owners of small businesses for loss of goodwill. S. 3313 (Javits): Amends urban renewal law to authorize assistance for neighborhood conservation programs. S. 3314(Javits): Increases urban renewal capital grant authorization. S. 3315 (Javits): Amends rent supplement program to include housing financed S. 3347 (Lausche): Permits certain local expenditures as local grant-in-aid for S. 3367 (Robertson): Permits certain local expenditures as local grant-in-aid 8. 3399 (Carlson): Permits certain local expenditures as local grant-in-aid for Olathe, Kans. S. 3410 (Sparkman): Permits certain local expenditures as local grant-in-aid for Decatur, Ala. 8. 3411 (Sparkman): Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire properties of certain homeowners whose properties are located at or near military installations which have been ordered to be closed. S. 3417 (Dodd): Permits occupants of public housing to qualify for tenancy in housing assisted under the rent supplement program. S. 3444 (Case): Requires that medicine cabinets used in federally assisted housing be equipped with latches designed to prevent young children from gaining access to the contents. 8. 3458 (Robertson): Permits certain local expenditures as local grant-in-aid for Hampton, Va. S. 3461 (Monroney): Permits certain local expenditures as local grant-in-aid for Oklahoma City, Okla. S. 3471 (McIntyre): Permits certain local expenditures as local grant-in-aid for Portsmouth, N.H. |