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Memo: Fort Madison Human Rights Commission Page 2
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-2- seemingly has polled those residents, we deem it necessary that the persons living in the area where the proposed concept is considered to be best for routing, be polled, also. We demand it, since persons living in the first area, were given the right. Let's say that this concept of routing Highway 61 through Fort Madison is the way the benefit ration will pay off to the fullest, what would be done about new or other housing facilities for the residents of this area? Fort Madison has no low-cost housing units and residents in other areas of the city have been known to discriminate because of race, color or creed. Therefore, unless you, the City Council can produce some houses and apartments throughout the city, we suggest that another concept be used. The people who reside in the affected area are Negroes, Mexicans and, to a certain extent, low-income whites. Many of the families own their own homes and many are elderly. Because their living conditions and environment, a lot of which is supposition, does not satisfy the City Commission or Council, it should not be a determinant for shifting these residents. These people consider their life, home and family as important as do those people who reside in Blackhawk Heights or River Hills. The residents of the affected area must be offered just compensation for their homes, that is, not what they were worth 5 or 10 years age, or what the City Assessors suggest, (unless he makes a house to house check), but on the money and labor which these individual residents have invested in their homes. Since Fort Madison has no low-cost residential properties and it is the general practice on the part or persons, firms, and/or corporations to discriminate, the only way to solve the problem a solution must be found if the proposed routing of Highway 61 is to become a fact. We suggest that an Open Housing Ordinance be passed and also that adequate and suitable units be established so that these people will have new or other
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-2- seemingly has polled those residents, we deem it necessary that the persons living in the area where the proposed concept is considered to be best for routing, be polled, also. We demand it, since persons living in the first area, were given the right. Let's say that this concept of routing Highway 61 through Fort Madison is the way the benefit ration will pay off to the fullest, what would be done about new or other housing facilities for the residents of this area? Fort Madison has no low-cost housing units and residents in other areas of the city have been known to discriminate because of race, color or creed. Therefore, unless you, the City Council can produce some houses and apartments throughout the city, we suggest that another concept be used. The people who reside in the affected area are Negroes, Mexicans and, to a certain extent, low-income whites. Many of the families own their own homes and many are elderly. Because their living conditions and environment, a lot of which is supposition, does not satisfy the City Commission or Council, it should not be a determinant for shifting these residents. These people consider their life, home and family as important as do those people who reside in Blackhawk Heights or River Hills. The residents of the affected area must be offered just compensation for their homes, that is, not what they were worth 5 or 10 years age, or what the City Assessors suggest, (unless he makes a house to house check), but on the money and labor which these individual residents have invested in their homes. Since Fort Madison has no low-cost residential properties and it is the general practice on the part or persons, firms, and/or corporations to discriminate, the only way to solve the problem a solution must be found if the proposed routing of Highway 61 is to become a fact. We suggest that an Open Housing Ordinance be passed and also that adequate and suitable units be established so that these people will have new or other
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