This subject category pertains to the approval of programs developed by local communities for the prevention and elimination of slum and blight conditions, including urban renewal, housing trends, and dwelling units required for families displaced by government action. Materials excepted from this category are civil defense activities related to housing (ND); disposition of Federally owned housing (RA); Federal aid for housing (FA); housing loans (FI); military housing (ND); rent control (BE); and veterans housing (VA).
Principal correspondents in this file include the President; Presidential assistants and advisers for domestic affairs including Daniel P. Moynihan, John D. Ehrlichman, Peter Flanigan, Bryce Harlow, Kenneth Cole, and Egil Krogh; OMB and CEA advisers, Arthur Burns and Paul McCracken; DHUD Secretaries George Romney and James Lynn, and Undersecretary Richard C. Van Dusen; Members of Congress; State and local government leaders; groups with interests in housing such as real estate, construction, home owner, union, and housing authority organizations; and private citizens.
Record types in this file include original (typed and handwritten) incoming letters and staff memoranda; carbons and electrostatic copies of outgoing letters and staff memoranda; telegrams; printed materials such as reports, brochures and magazine clippings; cross reference sheets to other file materials; and withdrawal sheets for materials transferred as audio-visual or museum items or withdrawn for national security or privacy considerations.
Further materials relating to housing are in the following subject categories, name file, and donated papers.
BE/4 Homebuilding Homebuilding
FG 6-3 Council of Economic Advisors
FG 6-11-1/Cole, Kenneth Cole, Kenneth
FG 6-11-1/Ehrlichman, John Ehrlichman, John
FG 6-11-1/Flanigan, Peter Flanigan, Peter
FG 6-11-1/Krogh, Egil Krogh, Egil
FG 6-11-1/Moynihan, Daniel Moynihan, Daniel
FG 6-11-1/Pierre, Percy Pierre, Percy
FG 6-12 Council for Urban Affairs
FG 23 Department of Health, Education and Welfare
FG 24 Department of Housing and Urban Development
FG 38 President of the Senate, Vice President of the United States
FI Finance
IS Insurance
LA Labor-Management Relations
LG Local Government
ST States-Territories
WE Welfare
Name Files Operation Breakthrough
Donated Papers Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of General Council
Donated Papers Lynn, James T.
Donated Papers Romney, George W.
Donated Papers Van Dusen, Richard C.
HS HOUSING
Topics include Domestic Council Housing Subcommittee meetings; reports by the President to Congress on annual housing meetings; reports by the President to Congress on annual housing goals; reports to the President from his economic advisors on housing starts; mortgage financing; "sweat equity"; urban development revenue sharing; legislation such as the FHA/Omnibus Housing and Urban Development Act and amendments, and the Fair Housing Law; programs such as the new communities program for urban development; "Operation Breakthrough" (a DHUD demonstration program to provide a new system of housing production, financing, marketing, management and land use); the Housing Opportunity Allowance Program (HOAP); and DHUD Sections 235 and 236 subsidy programs; urban renewal; housing for the low and moderate income as well as special populations including the elderly, the handicapped, and those on welfare; landlord-tenant regulations; prefabricated houses; mobile homes; and housing industry concerns.
HS 1 COLLEGE
This file contains a single document regarding a DHUD grant to a college.
HS 2 PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAMS
Topics concern low and moderate income housing programs; funding of housing programs; mortgage costs and interest rates; the proposed phasing out of DHUD Section 202 program; FHA Section 236 program; cutbacks in the Section 23 leased housing program; Multi-Family Rent Supplement Housing under Section 221 (d) (3) of the National Housing Act; "Operation Breakthrough"; landlord-tenant disputes; turnkey public housing; and the design and fabrication of housing.
HS 3 URBAN RENEWAL - SLUM CLEARANCE
Topics include urban development, urban renewal, and rehabilitation projects at individual project, community, city and regional levels. White House Central Files filed the materials for the period 1969-1970 under the heading HS 3 Urban Renewal Slum Clearance, HS 3/FG 106 (programs for the District of Columbia, 1969-1974), and HS 3/LG/A-Z (local government programs filed alphabetically by name for city or project, 1969-19700. For the period from 1971-1974, all HS 3 materials except those for the District of Columbia (HS 3/FG 106) were filed under HS/LG/A-2 alphabetically by name of city or project.
Box 1
EX HS Housing Beginning - 9/30/1969
EX HS Housing 10/1/1969 - 12/31/1969
EX HS Housing 1/1/1969-3/31/1970
EX HS Housing 4/1/1970
EX HS Housing 4/2/1970-9/30/1970
EX HS Housing 10/1/1970 -12/30/1970 [1 of 2]
EX HS Housing 10/1/1970 -12/30/1970 [2 of 2]
Box 2
EX HS Housing 1/1/1971 - 1/31/1971
EX HS Housing 2/1/1971 - 2/28/1971
EX HS Housing 3/1/1971 - 3/31/1971
EX HS Housing 4/1/1971 - 4/30/1971
EX HS Housing 5/1/1971 - 5/30/1971
EX HS Housing 6/1/1971 - 6/30/1971 [1 of 2]
EX HS Housing 6/1/1971 - 6/30/1971 [2 of 2]
EX HS Housing 7/1/1971 - 7/31/1971
EX HS Housing 8/1/1971 - 12/31/1972 [1 of 3]
EX HS Housing 8/1/1971 - 12/31/1972 [2 of 3]
EX HS Housing 8/1/1971 - 12/31/1972 [3 of 3]
Box 3
EX HS Housing 1/1/1973 - 6/31/1973
EX HS Housing 7/1/1973 - 12/31/1973
EX HS Housing 1/1/1974 - 4/30/1974
EX HS Housing 5/1/1974 - 5/31/1974
EX HS Housing 6/1/1974
GEN HS Housing 1/1/1969 - 6/30/1969 [1 of 2]
GEN HS Housing 1/1/1969 - 6/30/1969 [2 of 2]
GEN HS Housing 7/1/1969 - 9/30/1969 [1 of 2]
GEN HS Housing 7/1/1969 - 9/30/1969 [2 of 2]
Box 4
GEN HS Housing 10/1/1969 - 12/31/1969
GEN HS Housing 1/1/1970 - 3/31/1970
GEN HS Housing 4/1/1970 - 6/30/1970
GEN HS Housing 7/1/1970 - 9/30/1970
GEN HS Housing 10/1/1970 - 12/31/1970
GEN HS Housing 1/1/1971 - 12/31/1972 [1 of 2]
GEN HS Housing 1/1/1971 - 12/31/1972 [2 of 2]
GEN HS Housing 1/1/1973 - 7/30/1973
GEN HS Housing 8/1/1973 - 5/31/1974
GEN HS Housing 6/1/1974
Box 5
EX HS 1 College [Empty]
GEN HS 1 College 1969 - 1970
EX HS 2 Public Housing Program 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 2 Public Housing Program Begin - 3/17/1969
GEN HS 2 Public Housing Program 3/18/1969 - 4/22/1969
GEN HS 2 Public Housing Program 4/23/1969 - 7/31/1969
GEN HS 2 Public Housing Program 5/1/1969 - 7/31/1969
GEN HS 2 Public Housing Program 8/1/1969 - 9/30/1969
GEN HS 2 Public Housing Program 10/1/1969 - 12/31 1969
GEN HS 2 Public Housing Program 1/1/1970 - 3/31/1970
GEN HS 2 Public Housing Program 4/1/1970 - 6/30/1970
GEN HS 2 Public Housing Program 7/171970 - 9/30/1970
GEN HS 2 Public Housing Program 10/1/1970 - 12/31/1970
Box 6
EX HS 3 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance Begin - 2/28/1969
GEN HS 3 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 3/1/1969 - 4/6/1969
GEN HS 3 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 4/7/1969 - 5/9/1969
GEN HS 3 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 5/10/1969 - 5/31/1969
GEN HS 3 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 6/1/1969 - 12/31/1970 [1 of 2]
GEN HS 3 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 6/1/1969 - 12/31/1970 [2 of 2]
EX HS 3/FG 106 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 -1970
EX HS 3/FG 106 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1971 - 1972
EX HS 3/FG 106 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1973 - 1974
GEN HS 3/FG 106 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance FG 106 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/FG 106 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance FG 106 1971 - 1972
GEN HS 3/FG 106 Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance FG 106 1973 - 1974
Box 7
EX HS 3/LG/A-Z Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/A Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/B Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/C Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/D Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/E Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/F Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/G Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/H Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/I Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/J Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/K Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/L Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/M Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/N Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/O Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/P Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/Q Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/R Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/S Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/T Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/U Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/V Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/W Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
GEN HS 3/LG/XYZ Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1969 - 1970
EX HS 3/LG Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1/1/71 - 12/31/72 [1 of 4]
EX HS 3/LG Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1/1/71 - 12/31/72 [2 of 4]
EX HS 3/LG Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1/1/71 - 12/31/72 [3 of 4]
EX HS 3/LG Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1/1/71 - 12/31/72 [4 of 4]
Box 8
EX HS 3/LG/A-K Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1973 - 1974
EX HS 3/LG/L-N Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1973 - 1974
EX HS 3/LG/O-Q Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1973 - 1974
EX HS 3/LG/R-S Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1973 - 1974
EX HS 3/LG/T-Z Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1973 - 1974
GEN HS 3/LG/A-H Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1971 - 1972 [1 of 2]
GEN HS 3/LG/A-H Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1971 - 1972 [2 of 2]
GEN HS 3/LG/I-P Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1971 - 1972
GEN HS 3/LG/Q-Z Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1971 - 1972
Box 9
GEN HS 3/LG/A-H Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1973 - 1974
GEN HS 3/LG/I-P Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1973 - 1974
GEN HS 3/LG/Q-Z Urban Renewal-Sum Clearance 1973 - 1974