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Show H. salt lake free Uuiukk&! neighborhood news weekly community news for metro Salt Lake volume two number may 24, 1973 thirty-seve- n needed surgery in the worse way." With the federal government in a new direction Rosenheim says state and local officials have been "anxious and pointed able" to attack their own problems. HUD will submit its new housing programs to Congress by September, said Rosenheim. In the meantime, he urged state and W local governments to be "thinking of offering their assistance in meeting ttieir own housing problems." 'w Complementing these director of the Utah Department of munity Development addresses meet. Bill Bruhn, the administration's proposed Better Communities Com- programs is Act which, according to will replace many of the suspended HUD programs such as Model Cities, Open Space, iosenheim, v V.' Housing Symposium Explores Alternatives1 O' .xUrban RehalpjJjjation. v The public role in housing is a puzzle of a thousand pieces. An effort was made May 17th to fit some of those pieces together when a symposium on low income housing was held at the University of Utah. ''Housing policy programs were also discussed. Along with this a bus tour of low income housing was conducted and a panel discussion on the "cost of housing alternatives" was held. Giving assurance new federal programs will not make the alternatives" were explored by a broad cross section of interests. The main emphasis was on what state and local jurisdiction can do now regarding "socially assisted" "unfortunate housing. address on the "changing federal role in housing." Stumping for the "new Federalism" approach of the A powerful line-u- p of speakers presented their particular points of view starting with the federal role in housing and working into alternatives and related policies. Utah housing less fortunate" Robert Rosenheim, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Region 8 administrator explained in his Nixon Administration, Rosenheim said "housing programs undergoing surgery Renewal and Public -- idering what can be sydone with or without federal ..0 funds was Arthur A. Goldberg, representing a New York banking investment firm. He discussed the many options open to authorities trying to find money for public housing. Goldberg felt if private economic interests could see the financial gain generated by their participation in the building of publicly assisted housing, there would be stronger support for state housing legislation. The alternative ways of financing low and middle income housing programs are limited only by "the state constitution and your imagination," Joseph Blake, HUD Region 8 counseler told the symposium audience. State housing finance agencies are the cornerstone of (Continued on page 2) |
