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Youth Program - 2

4. How can local councils express to Congress our interest in Federal Aid to Dependent Children Program?

5. How can local councils find means of correlating [art time job experience with school programs for those who have to work?

6. How can local councils increase the opportunity for guidance with reference to part time jobs?

[[?]] [[underlined]] WORKING PAPER ON INITIATING A MAJOR PROGRAM EMPHASIS ON HOUSING [[/underlined]]

[[?]] [[underlined]] WHY HOUSING IS CRITICAL TODAY [[/underlined]]

Housing has become a number one problem. It affects every aspect of community relations. Where we live affects our school facilities, public service facilities, health and cultural standards

[[?]] [[underlined]] IMPORTANT HOUSING FACTS TODAY [[/underlined]]

Negroes should realize that behind the success of the suburban movement is the fact that the purchase of obsolescent housing by Negroes has made it possible for white families to buy new housing and thus stimulate even more new housing for the racially restricted market.

The Negro housing problem as such is not solve by the few individual housing changes achieved by Negroes with better than average incomes.

There is still need for sustained overall pressure to create more housing for low income groups which will make available more housing for the Negro market.

There is a shortage of funds for low cost housing because -

a) this has been a tight money period;
b) discount rates on mortgages have been too rigidly controlled;
c) economic difficulties of the country affect jobs and housing generally - thus making it ore difficult for low cost housing programs to succeed, since mortgage rates, income risks, investment returns must all be considered by the home builders

Home builders who wish to have a non-discriminatory policy in new housing face real financial difficulties. Sales and rentals to Negroes result in loss of sales to non-Negroes, loss of credit from banks and financial investors, plus insufficient sales to the Negro market which has not supported much new housing away from central metropolitan areas.

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