University Dally Kansan
Thursday, October 4, 1979
Low-income housing project obtains HUD financing
By BOB PITTMAN
Staff Reporter
A request by the Lawrence Housing Authority for the construction of 50 public housing units for low-income families was approved by the city's development of Housing and Urban Development.
Although the amount of money to be spend on the project was also set by DU, Dave Murrell housing authority executive committee to reveal the proposed project's cost.
"It would be improper to do that at this time," Murrell said. "It would interfere with the letting of birds at a later date if we released an estimated cost."
A majority of the 50 units will have two bedrooms, with some one - and some three-bedroom units. he said.
He said the proposed project would be financed strictly with HUD money.
THE PROJECT will remain under the
management of HUD until the mortgage is paid. Then it will become the property of the city, according to Murrell.
The proposed units will be the fourth type of D-Financial housing project. Lawrences Building, 1700 Massachusetts St., was built for the elderly and Edgeworth House, 1006 Haskell Ave. There also are 96 private dwellings in Lawrence where rents are subsidized by
He said the rent for the units would be based on one fourth of the family's income after tax deductions.
"The people must be low-income."
Murrell said, "HUD has certain standards for income levels of the residents. If, for example, a family of four made $12,000 a year or less, they could be eligible in live-in care."
--authority was to make the project blend well architecturally with the neighborhood.
The location of the project has not been determined.
"A public meeting of the housing board last month turned the board in favor of scattered sites for the project if enough funds from HUD was available," Murrell said.
"A big variable is land cost. If we bought 10 pieces of property throughout Lawrence, this would change the cost of the project substantially."
"We feel that the public housing should be integrated into the neighborhood, if well integrated so that residents feel that they were part of a neighborhood, and that they were part of a government project."
He said the housing board plannes a survey of residents at Edgewood Homes to find out whether the residents thought their house was safe or not. A HUD project gave them a good or a bad image, and whether they thought the new building should be scattered throughout the city.
HE ALSO SAID the goal of the housing
"For instance, we don't want a boxy house in with some older homes," he said.
Members of the authority's boarding will talk in late October with a team of two or three HUD officials about the price HUD has projected for the units, the setting of a construction schedule for completion by a project architect and the letting of bids.
proceed with our studies through the winter and be very close-mouthed about the estimated costs of construction.
Murrell said the housing authority had 30 days beginning yesterday to schedule a planning meeting with HUD officials.
"It will take a good two to five months for the city planning commission to start taking bids on the project," Murrell said. "We will
Dedorbat Butcher, project manager at Edgewood Homes, said 33 families had applied for two-bedroom homes, and 63 had applied for three-bedroom homes.
"A lot of the people that we now have living in Edgewood are single heads of families," Murrell said. "There are also a number of families whose head is disabled able to work. You've got to keep in mind that not all of the people are also on welfare."
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