WaSMAR1622_01.xml Guide to the Neighborhood Housing Rehabilitation Program Records 1974-1977 Neighborhood Housing Rehabilitation Program Records Seattle Municipal Archives 2022
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-11-10. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Seattle Municipal Archives Neighborhood Housing Rehabilitation Program (NHRP) Records Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Community Development 1622-01 2.4 cubic feet 1974-1977 English .

The Department of Community Development (DCD) was established in 1969, assuming the responsibilities of the City Planning Commission staff and the Urban Renewal Program, previously a division of the Executive Department. Throughout its existence, DCD administered the City's comprehensive planning and provided direction and support for the City's physical and economic development through community planning. The Department was the City agency responsible for coordinating public and private efforts toward physical redevelopment and renewal in both residential and business districts. This work was based on the social, economic, and physical needs of the target community or district.

A very large portion of the DCD budget was realized from federal funds. This reliance on federal grants significantly impacted DCD's operational focus as certain types of federal funding dried up and other funding programs emerged. The administration of the Seattle Model City Program was moved to DCD in 1970, but funding ended in 1974. All but one of the City's Urban Renewal projects were closed out in 1977. And at about the same time, the Community Development Block Grant program, a federal pass-through program, was established. Other federal funding programs included the Neighborhood Improvement Program, Targeted Neighborhood Assistance Program, Neighborhood Development Program, and Urban Development Action Grants.

These changes in funding impacted the DCD's priorities and also led to several departmental reorganizations in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1972, the Department added economic development to its responsibilities in response to an economic decline in Seattle that had begun in the late 1960s. The focus was to provide information to businesses that were expanding or relocating in Seattle. At this point, DCD was managing planning and implementation of complex projects that had interdepartmental implications, such as development of the Central Waterfront, Freeway Park, Westlake Mall, Pike Place Market renewal, and the huge renewal projects in the Yesler/Atlantic, Northlake, and South Seattle neighborhoods.

In 1974, a Mayor's task force report recommended separating policy planning from development planning and implementation. While policy work went to the newly created Office of Policy Planning, DCD's focus turned to development and operational planning with added renewal projects in the Denny Regrade and International District, among others. With the addition of Community Development Block Grant funding, as well as other federal programs, DCD grew considerably in the late 1970s.

However, with the advent of President Ronald Reagan's administration, federal funding for Seattle was curtailed. In 1982, DCD's budget was cut by twenty percent and remained flat for the next three years. In 1986, following passage of the City's Housing Levy, the Department added a new function, administering the construction of new moderate to low income housing units. In addition, DCD was the lead agency working with the University of Washington in the late 1980s to promote Seattle, nationally and internationally, as a technology center.

Mayor Norm Rice, whose first term began in 1990, reorganized the City's housing, human services, economic development, and planning functions. DCD was abolished in 1992. Its programs were relocated in several City agencies, including the newly organized Department of Neighborhoods, Department of Housing and Human Services, and Planning Department. DCD records include material from the City Planning Commission, Zoning Commission, Metropolitan Arts Commission, Board of Adjustment, and Urban Renewal Program.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and Federal loan materials relating to the rehabilitation of single and multi-family housing units, especially in the central area. These are primarily the files of program coordinator Bill Stalzer.

Records are open to the public.

[Item and date], Neighborhood Housing Rehabilitation Program (NHRP) Records, Record Series 1622-01 Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.

 Stalzer, Bill Seattle Housing Authority Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Community Development Seattle (Wash.) Morrison Hotel (Seattle, Wash.) Apartment houses--Washington (State)--Seattle Housing rehabilitation--Washington (State)--Seattle Administration Costs and Neighborhood Corporation Costs 1974-1977 1 1 Correspondence, Chronological 1977 1 2 Mann-Minor / Madrona, Evaluation and Status Reports 1975-1976 1 3 Mann-Minor / Madrona, Agendas, Minutes, Etc 1976 1 4 Mann-Minor / Madrona, Correspondence, Miscellaneous 1975-1976 1 5 Mann-Minor / Madrona, Budgets, Financial Documents 1974-1977 1 6 Evaluations 1975-1976 1 7 Section 312 Appraisal Waiver 1975-1976 1 8 Foundations 1974-1975 1 9 Application Checklist 1974-1977 1 10 Pike Project East 1974-1977 1 11 Appraiser, Robert Opsvig 1974-1977 1 12 General Information 1974-1977 1 13 Programs in Other Cities 1974-1977 1 14 Program Structure and Financial Analysis 1974-1977 1 15 Basic Documents, Legislative / Contracts / Etc 1974-1977 1 16 Mount Baker, Budgets and Financial Documents 1974-1977 1 17 Stevens, Agendas / Minutes / Etc 1977 1 18 Section 312, General Information 1976-1977 1 19 Stevens, Correspondence 1974-1977 1 20 Seattle Housing Authority, Subsidized Loan Fund 1974-1977 1 21 Seattle Housing Authority, Joint Fiscal Committee 1975-1977 1 22 Seattle Housing Authority, Financial Statement and Budgets 1975-1976 1 23 Mount Baker, Evaluation and Status Reports 1974-1977 1 24 Stevens, Basic Documents 1976-1977 1 25 Stevens, Budgets and Financial Documents 1976-1977 1 26 Stevens, Evaluation and Status Reports 1976-1977 1 27 Section 312, Department Budget 1977 1 28 Section 312, Department Budget 1976 1 29 Section 312, Chronological Correspondence 1976 1 30 Section 312, Chronological Correspondence 1976 1 31 Mount Baker, Correspondence and Miscellaneous 1974-1977 1 32 Mount Baker, Agendas / Minutes / Etc 1974-1977 2 1 Mount Baker, Basic Documents 1974-1977 2 2 Section 8, Staff Comments 1976 2 3 Section 8, Set Aside 1976 2 4 Section 8, Status 1974-1977 2 5 Apartments Seventy-Six 1976 2 6 Reports 1974-1977 2 7 Mann-Minor / Madrona, Section 312 1974-1977 2 8 Stevens, Section 312 1974-1977 2 9 Housekeeping 1976-1977 2 10 Mount Baker, Section 312 1974-1977 2 11 Legal Opinions 1974-1977 2 12 Status Reports 1976-1977 2 13 Expansion 1974-1977 2 14 Housing Opportunity Program 1974-1977 2 15 Capital Improvement Program 1977 2 16 Local Programs, Other Cities 1974-1977 2 17 Urban Homesteading, Baltimore 1974-1977 2 18 Union Bay Village Housing 1974-1977 2 19 SEED 1974-1977 2 20 International Towers Apartments 1974-1977 2 21 International Towers Apartments 1974-1977 2 22 Kenyon Apartments Rehabilitation 1974-1977 2 23 Lutheran Bible Institute 1974-1977 2 24 Kenyon Apartments, Section 8 1974-1977 2 25 Morrison Hotel, Speculation Housing 1974-1977 2 26 North 107th, City Surplus Property 1974-1977 2 27 Tarkington Square Apartments 1974-1977 2 28 Tarkington Square Apartments 1974-1977 2 29 Tarkington Square Apartments 1974-1977 2 30 Tarkington Square Apartments 1974-1977 2 31 Homestead Manor 1974-1977 2 32 Fifth Avenue NE and NE 98th Street 1974-1977 2 33 Section 312, Rehabilitation Recap Sheets 1976 3 1 Section 312, Status 1976 3 2 Urgent Need Funds 1976 3 3 Section 312, David Whitman Letter 1977 3 4