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RCED-00-165R 1 (2000-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalpc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G ~GAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Resources, Community, and Washington, DC 20548 Economic Development Division B-285045 June 9, 2000 The Honorable Wayne Allard Chairman The Honorable Rick Santorum Vice Chairman Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs United States Senate The Honorable Arlen Specter Chairman Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Subject: Community Development: Information on the Efforts by the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Relocate and Compensate Residents of the Logan Triangle Area In 1987, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delineated the boundaries of a 17-block area containing over 900 townhouses, known as the Logan Triangle Area, and established a relocation plan to assist the property owners and tenants residing in this area. The relocation of Logan Triangle residents was necessary because their homes, which were built on an ash and cinder landfill between 1910 and 1930, were sinking. Relocation under the city's plan was voluntary and consisted of an offer to purchase Logan homes and/or relocate tenants if they desired to move. It also established a cut- off date for receiving relocation benefits. Anyone who either moved into or acquired a home in the Logan Triangle after August 29, 1986, was deemed ineligible to receive benefits under the federal Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970,1 as amended (Uniform Relocation Act), which requires payments for the fair market value of homes, rental assistance for tenants, and reimbursements for other costs, such as moving expenses. Because the Uniform Relocation Act does not provide funding for these relocation activities, the city is using the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Community Development Block Grant 1 The Uniform Relocation Act provides for relocation assistance, and when applicable, just compensation, subject to state law, for the acquisition of property, to individuals who have been displaced, as a result of programs or projects undertaken by a federal agency or with federal financial assistance. The displacement can occur as a result of the acquisition, demolition, or rehabilitation of real property. GAO/RCED-00-165R Logan Sinking Homes

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