anticipate the completion and closeout of another eight projects within the next year. All 30 redevelopment projects which have been undertaken cover 1,055 acres.

In addition to the 30 redevelopment projects, we now have 5 federally assisted conservation projects. Our first, Hyde Park-Kenwood, with 22,092 dwelling units has about 20 percent of all dwelling units to be rehabilitated in 300-odd conservation projects in the entire Nation. And we have now certified about 70 percent of these as meeting property rehabilitation standards. The total cost of this program in Federal, local, and private funds is approximately $250 million. Hyde Park-Kenwood is an integrated neighborhood. Property values have nearly doubled and as rapidly as land is made available it is purchased by private developers at fair prices. Construction in this area includes: public housing on scattered sites, housing for the aged, 221(d) (3) moderate income housing as well as conventionally financed and 220 housing. The value of permits for rehabilitation and new construction in 1959, when Hyde Park-Kenwood projects went into execution, was $156,000. The cumulative total of all permit valuation in the project since 1959 is nearly $66 million.

Construction actually completed on all renewal sites amounts to approximately $186 million. Another $80 million in construction is currently in progress in 17 project areas where 45 improvements are underway.

More than 6,000 apartments and 419 townhouses have been completed with another 7,000 planned or in development. More than 100 industrial and commercial buildings have been completed at an approximate cost of $30 million. Four institutional buildings and 16 public buildings have been erected.

It is estimated conservatively that the real estate tax yield for the total renewal program has more than doubled despite the fact that 300 acres of land is being made available for public and institutional use, such as parks, hospitals, schools, and colleges. The tax yield, of course, varies from project to project. In industrial projects it is estimated to be 3 to 5 times greater after redevelopment.

During the development of the individual renewal projects in Chicago the urban renewal department has carried on an extensive interchange with community organizations, institutional and business groups as well as professional and technical organizations in order to insure the broadest participation by those directly affected as well as using the broad resources that the many groups can bring to the development of the programs.

As an example, in the Lincoln Park Community where the renewal program has recently gone into the execution phase, the many neighborhood organizations and the renewal department staff held hundreds of meetings with from 5 to over 1,000 participants in the planning stage. This interchange, we believe, has resulted not only in the best possible plan for the area but has established the base for implementing the many aspects of the project.

In each of our rehabilitation project areas a citizens council, consisting of from 9 to 15 residents of the area, is appointed in accordance with our State legislation, who are responsible for providing assistance and guidance of the development of the plan and who must approve any plan before it can be placed into effect. These conservation com

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munity councils are also charged with the responsibility of aiding in the implementation of the plans.

During the past 17 years since relocation began for Chicago's first urban renewal project, 14,000 families have been relocated from urban renewal sites. More than 95 percent of these families have moved into standard and decent housing according to continuing followup studies we have made. This corresponds to a U.S. Census study made of 132 cities, including Chicago, which showed that 94 percent of the families were moving into standard housing.

Under the Housing Act of 1965 we have expanded our program with 10 new areas. The preliminary proposals call for moderate income housing to be built in seven of the projects utilizing 221 (d) (3) financing and other private financing and development.

We have pending applications in 10 communities where neighborhood service centers will be established to provide rehabilitation and other assistance under the code en forecment projects.

Under the 1965 Housing Act the Chicago Housing Authority, over the next 4 years, will seek to obtain 3,000 units annually in 3 categories. Under new construction it proposes to build 1,750 units in low-rise buildings in scattered sites.

They will purchase and rehabilitate properties containing 750 apartments.

They will lease 500 apartments from owners who have brought their buildings into strict compliance with the city's housing and building code. The authority has already conducted programs in the rehabilitation and leasing programs which not only provide homes for lowincome families and the elderly, but equally important, which brings existing structures into strict compliance with city building codes. Since 1955, the department of buildings has removed more than 3,000 dangerous and dilapidated buildings outside of urban renewal areas. The expenditure for demolition increased from a budget allowance of $5,000 in 1955 to $500,000 in 1965 when more than 900 buildings were demolished. Under the provision of the new act, a $715,000 grant plus one-third local matching funds will permit the demolition of many more such dangerous and blighted structures.

The Chicago Board of Health and the building department with the cooperation of the committee on urban opportunity, the city war on poverty agency, is now rodent-proofing apartments and since the program started in January extermination teams have inspected more than 19,000 apartments, containing 69,000 rooms and patched up 15,000 rodent holes as well as spraying apartments with insecticides. The Chicago Dwellings Association, the city's nonprofit agency, is carrying on a broad program with special emphasis of improving the city's stock of moderate-income housing and conducting rehabilitation programs on a block-by-block basis in seven neighborhoods. Its activities include the purchase and rehabilitation of existing properties, the construction of new housing and improving the area by working closely with community organizations.

The agency is also serving as a court-appointed receiver for properties where building owners have refused to comply with housing, building, and health codes. Under State legislation, the CDA collects the rents and uses them to bring the properties up to city code stand

ards. If the property cannot be rehabilitated a court order for demolition is sought.

The receivership program was initiated 4 years ago but under the new State legislation the CDA, since the first of the year, has been appointed receiver for more than 40 buildings.

The board of health, in 1965, opened a district health center which provides infant and maternal health care, chronic disease control, dental care, venereal disease control, mental health counseling, tuberculosis case finding to thousands of residents of a low-income area. Two more district health centers are being submitted for approval this year. The health department also has 31 infant welfare stations, including 18 maternal clinics.

The program, working in the framework of existing major medical facilities will include such services as prenatal care, infant welfare, complete pediatric care, diagnosis and treatment of acute illness, complete hospital care, health education, long-term treatment for ambulatory patients, mental health services, and social services. These family health centers will be opened-operated on a contractual basis between the board of health and medical schools or teaching hospitals. The first phase of this program involves 60,000 persons living in 2 poverty areas.

In 1965 the committee on urban opportunity was established as the agency to carry on the war on poverty. The committee is now working hand-in-hand with 37 voluntary agencies plus 38 community-initiated programs. It is estimated that these activities of the committee have reached more than 300,000 persons living in low-income communities.

The program encompasses such things as child development through Project Headstart program in which more than 23,000 youngsters enrolled last summer and the present child development program for 5,600 children.

The Neighborhood Youth Corps has helped additional thousands of young men and women from 16 through 21 find the pathway toward a productive adult life. Over 8,000 young Chicagoans are now enrolled and last summer the figure was 11,000.

Among the many projects in this vital part of the war against the causes of poverty are programs to aid youth, senior citizens, mentally retarded children, American Indians and working mothers. There are tutoring programs with senior citizens working next to college students helping school youngsters take greater advantage of their learning opportunities.

The program has established seven urban progress centers, neighborhood facilities where city and private services are provided at locations most convenient for those needing them. Two more will be opened this year.

These centers have employed over 700 persons as community representatives who work in neighborhoods where they live. They have left the ranks of the unemployed and underemployed and joined hands with their government to help others help themselves.

Another agency which is working as a full-time partner in the war on poverty and social deprivation is the commission on youth welfare. With a budget of more than $1,250,000, the commission has 13 field officers and neighborhood workers in 30 communities.

The commission on human relations works to assure equal opportunity for all persons regardless of race, color, creed, or national the origin. It is responsible for policing the fair employment clause in been city contracts and implementing and administering the Chicago fair housing ordinance.

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The Cook County Department of Public Aid has led the county in trol its attack on illiteracy, unemployment, and poverty conditions. It ber pioneered in the manpower training programs. It is one of the few major cities in the United States where the number of persons on the aid-to-dependent-children program has been reduced for each of the last 5 months.

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The department of air pollution control has installed the Nation's first telemetered monitoring network. This program is a part of a $1 million Federal grant for research projects. It has an aggressive enforcement program.

Chicago is fortunate that it has an excellent mass transportation system that operates in the black. A Federal grant of $1 million has been approved to finance a study of several alternatives in developing a subway system connecting with existing transit lines and commuter rail stations.

We have made very substantial progress in planning and programing in the last several years, which will help provide the basis for a demonstration project of the scope envisaged in the bill.

The research, planning, and program material prepared as part of our community renewal program deals with the development of housing, commercial, industrial, institutional and community facilities programs, and with social and economic aspects of overall programs. Other related studies and program recommendations have been dereloped by the Committee on Economic and Cultural Development. We have had the benefit of participation and advice of our institutions of higher learning in Chicago and of such private groups as the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago and the Metropolitan Hospital Planning Council.

We have made progress in Chicago in this effort to rebuild and improve our communities. However, we are far from content. There remains much to be done in ridding our communities of blight, in providing adequate housing facilities for all families, in developing integrated communities, in furnishing adequate community facilities for schools, parks, playgrounds, in expanding health programs and hospital facilities, making available social services, and in creating job opportunities for all our citizens.

The Chicago program alone has shown the magnitude of urban Improvement programs. The bill would focus in a community-in one overall program-the aggregate of all these endeavors. It is apparent that this can be done only with the utmost coordinationwith the most careful planning and programing.

Serious consideration must be given that many of the agencies now engaged in urban development have their own citizen boards, their own administrative procedures, their own relationship with Federal and State community agencies. Some of them are governed by State legislation.

In Chicago their activities are coordinated by the department of development and planning which also is responsible for coordinating

the capital improvement programs of all city, county, and State agencies with public work and building programs in Chicago.

While we recognize some interim guidelines and criteria are needed during the development of the plans we would recommend that since all cities have their own individual and unique administrative and organizational structures, that any administrative requirements, procedures, and criteria other than those stated in the bill be deferred until such time as plans from cities throughout the country have been submitted and reviewed.

Further, it would be indeed difficult for any agency to determine the actual amount of funds necesary to achieve the objectives of the Demonstration Act when the cities in the United States vary in their resources, economic strength, extent, and quality of programs, and in social structure and environment. The Chicago program alone, I believe, makes it apparent that the only way to arrive at a reasonable estimate of the total funds needed would be by examining the plans submitted by the various cities. In the meantime, however, it is obvious that the $2.3 billion is far from adequate to carry on a program of this magnitude. It is also obvious that funds for planning must be substantially increased so as to provide an opportunity for every city to develop a demonstration program.

The preparation of a comprehensive plan involving the total environment will make a tremendous contribution to every city-and to the Nation by projecting the total needs of urban life.

With reference to H.R. 12946, the Urban Development Act, and H.R. 13064, the Housing and Urban Development Program Amendments of 1966, we will, with the chairman's permission, furnish the subcommittee with a statement outlining our views on these measures after we have had an opportunity to complete our analysis of their provisions.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. BARRETT. Without objection, it may be done.

(The statement referred to was previously submitted, see the joint statement of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and National League of Cities, p. 199.)

Mr. BARRETT. Mr. Daley, I want to thank you on behalf of the subcommittee for a very excellent and informative statement.

Mr. Mayor, I have one question. It is a little bit repetitious, because I have asked this of other mayors that have come before the committee. First, I want to inform the members here this morning that we will continue under a 5-minute rule.

Mr. Mayor, I would like to ask you the same question that I asked Mayors Cavanagh and Lindsay earlier this week. Some people seem to have a fear that the Federal coordinator which the bill would set up for each demonstration city program would be some sort of a Federal dictator or czar. Now, I do not believe this, and I think the bill is clear that he would not be a dictator nor have dictatorial powers. But I would like to ask you these two questions. First, would the people who have such fear feel better, do you think, if we renamed this Federal official a local coordinator rather than a Federal coordinator! And second, what do you think of the idea of making the services of the coordinator optional for participating cities rather than mandatory as provided by the bill, H.R. 12341 ?