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GGD-76-47 1 (1976-02-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaabog0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITCD STAIES ASHING TON. D.C. 20544 ~ii~ifhlI1~~~IlI1I TO LM099954 B-118638 FEb U 1976 The Honorable Lawton Cniles f Chairman, Subcommittee on the District of Columbia Committee on Appropriations - United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: The following information, submitted in response to your recent request, summarizes the results of our work in the District of Columbia's 14th Street urban renewal area. The 14th Street corL-idcr (34. acres in northwest Washing- ton whose general boundaries are llth and 14th Streets, N.W., from Florida Avenue to Sprir,q Road, N.W.) was designated for urban renewal after the April 1)68 riots, when the President oj. the United States directed the Redevelopment Land Agency , to clear tae riot torn area. The riot damaged 270 buildings and 323 business establishronts. At tne ti e, the agency was a Federal corporation, responsible for urban r,'.ewal in the District. Effective July 1, 1974, the agency Lf.:ame a Dis- trict corporation in accordance with the DinLr'ct of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act of 1973. On July 3, 1975, the District government consol..dated the agency and other housing and community development activities in a new Department of Housing and Comriunity Development. Seven years have passcJ since the riots, but no new hous- ing has been built and few ,.ouses have been rehabilitated in the 14th Street urban renewal area. M.'ny of the problems con- tributing to the slow p:oqcess were beyond the agency's con- trol.. Progress was also impeded becaune management of the program was ineffective: --Records were so poor that the acency did not know how many properties it owned, whether they were occupied or vacant, how many tenants it n.,eded to relocate, or the status of relocation progress. --Some 14th Street residents dS.d not receive benefits to which they were entitled, or thay did not receive them on time. GGD-76-47 71~

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