Wednesday, October 16, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Low rent housing
City commission to support resolution
By KIT GUNN Kansan Staff Writer
The Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously yesterday to support a resolution approving low-rent housing for the Lawrence area.
The Commission did not officially pass the resolution but authorized its formal drafting and numbering.
Charles H. Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design and chairman of the University Committee for Urban Action, said he is confident the Commission will formally approve the resolution at next Tuesday's meeting.
Kahn spoke at the City Commission meeting yesterday in behalf of the resolution, sought by the Ballard Community Center in North Lawrence and the KU committee.
Commission must OK
Passage of the resolution is
required by the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) before the Ballard Center can obtain a loan for its proposed housing project.
Commissioner Richard Raney made and Commissioner Donald E. Metzler, professor of civil engineering, seconded the motion to formally draft and number the resolution. All five commissioners voted in favor of the motion.
Even if the formal resolution is passed next Tuesday the way is still not clear for low-rent housing. The University Committee for Urban Action is seeking a co-sponsor for the Ballard Center's housing project this week. A "stable co-sponsoring organization" is required for such a project by FHA to insure supervision over the 40-year term of the mortgage, James L. Smith, rent supplement specialist for FHA, said.
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The KU committee has approached the First Methodist Church, the Lawrence Kiwanis Club and the Jewish Community Center as possible co-sponsors.
At last Friday's committee meeting Smith urged speed in securing a co-sponsor. "I can't promise funds will be available for the Lawrence project, but I feel fairly sure they will," he said, but the federal funding bill has been passed "and the kitty will be cut up soon."
Church, a co-sponsor located by the Ballard Center last month, may not be acceptable to FHA.
Smith said the ideal size for the Lawrence housing project was 125 units, costing "in the
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neighborhood of $11.5 to $12 thousand per unit."
Eligibility
To live in the project, Smith said, a person will have to be 62 years old or over with assets of under $5,000, or have assets of under $2,000 and show one of the following disadvantages: residence in substandard housing, a physical handicap, or displacement by natural disaster of government act.
Basic rent for units in the proposed complex will be $120 for a one-bedroom apartment, $140 for a two-bedroom and $160 for a three-bedroom apartment. Smith said.
Families with incomes from
approximately $2400 for a single person to $4200 for a seven-member family will be eligible for the federal rent-supplement program, Smith said. In this program tenants will pay 25 percent of their income for housing in the project, he stated.
The 25 per cent figure is computed from net income after allowing a $300 deduction for each dependent minor in the family, Smith said.
Metzler suggested at the City Commission meeting yesterday that some married students at KU may be eligible to live in the project; City Manager Ray Wells said he doubted if this were the case.
It looks like a bleak Friday for about 500 geography students.
Apparently, they can do nothing to change their Geography 6 hour exam scheduled for Friday night. The exam has touched off a wave of discontent among them.
Chuck Weatherwax, Sioux Falls, S.D. freshman, has even taken the complaint to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
"The Chancellor said I had a
Weatherwax, who felt he was speaking for "a big majority of the class," went clear to the top.
Club News
The schedule published by the Registrar's office this fall lists Friday as the date for the first hour exam in the class.
BUENOS AIRES (UPI) A group of 16 men who had been meeting informally for years at a big annual feast now have established the "We Eat Like Pigs Club." However, Juan Cessio Roca, club president, insists none of the members is fat.
But when Professors A. W. Kuchler and C. Gregory Knight began to work on plans for their exams, which, according to geography department policy, must be given jointly, they discovered the only place large enough to seat 500 students is Hoch Auditorium. Furthermore, they discovered that Hoch is only available Friday night.
An apologetic Knight said, "If I could have it differently I would." But, he added, the fault lies with the system rather than with himself or the department.
Kuchler told a Kansan reporter all he could do was follow the rules, "A Friday night test is unfortunate, but we have to have it sometime," he said.
Complaints have continued to come from disgruntled students. Ken Mickey, Overland Park junior, has complained to Knight, to his lab instructor, and to the head of the department. He has had no success.
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legitimate and well-presented complaint," Weatherwax said. "But he was afraid it might be too late to do much about it."
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