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29 <br /> <br />A RESOLUTION~DIRECTIN~ THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY ATTORNEY <br />TO MEET WITH OFFICIALS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND <br />URBAN DEVELOPMENT TO EXPLORE THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE CITY <br />OF PORTSMOUTH'S COMe, UNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, since 1975, the City of Portsmouth's Community <br />Development Program, in accordance with Federal requirements, <br />has addressed Citywide problems including: (1) Inadequate <br />housing and service for low and moderate income families;- <br />(2) A limited tax base and land area; ~3) A low per capita <br />income and high rate of unemployment; (4) Extensive blight and <br />deterioration; and (5) Underdeveloped and inappropriately <br />developed property, which problems the City has always under- <br />taken to address through an aggressive program utilizing the <br />Urban Renewal Program and Community Development Program; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, successfully community development activities <br />have been undertaken in the Mt. Hermon, Southside, Effingham, <br />Cradock, Parkview, Olde Towner Northside and Crawford neig~or- <br />hoods; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the construction of low and moderate income <br />housing has been a primary goal in the first five (5) years <br />of this effort, during which time the City of Portsmouth, <br />through the Portsmouth Redevelopment & Housing Authority, has <br />constructed Six Hundred Fifty Four (654) units of housing for <br />low and moderate income people, including for%y-eight (48) <br />units of housing constructed under the littl% used Housing <br />of Last Resort provision of the Con~nunity Development Act; and <br /> <br /> ~UHEREAS~ data developed by the staff of the Portsmouth <br />Redevelopment And Housing Authority and the City of Portsmouth <br />regarding racial and economic impaction in neighborhoods <br />throughout the City indicate that considerable care must be <br />given to the provision and location of additional low and <br />moderate income group housing projects so as to insure that <br />placemen~ of such housing complies with all applicable laws <br />but does not adversely affect the stability of individual <br />neighborhoods or the City ms a whole; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the existence of a considerable nu/~ber of <br />substandard housing units built prior to 1950 and occupied <br />by low and moderate income families and individuals, and the <br />scarcity of land for new development in the City, is one of <br />the City's most critical community development problems; and <br /> <br /> <br />