HUD COMMITMENT TO PROVIDE HOUSING IN INDIAN AREAS In 1969, the Department of Interior (Bureau of Indian Affairs), the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (Indian Health Service), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development executed a Memorandum of Understanding which provided for the construction of 40,000 housing units in Indian areas during the five fiscal years 1970 through 1974. The HUD commitment was established at an annual level of 6,000 units over the five-year period for a total of 30,000 units; the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and tribal groups were committed to provide the balance of 10,000 units; and the Indian Health Service (IHS) was committed to providing water and sewer facilities. The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 authorized a $15,000,000 production set-aside per year for FY 75 and FY 76; however, this authorization was stated in terms of units placed under ACC after July 1, 1974. It is calculated that, at today's prices, $15,000,000 will fund 6,000 units. The 6,558 units presently authorized, but not under ACC, will exhaust the FY 75 funding set-aside, and the 6,000 units being authorized will SPECIAL INDIAN PROGRAMS REPORT HOUSING ACT OF 1949 DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS DIRECTORY DECEMBER 31, 1972 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT HOUSING PRODUCTION AND MORTGAGE CREDIT FHA DIVISION OF RESEARCH AND STATISTICS III EXPLANATORY NOTES Coverage This directory contains information for all Indian projects developed or being developed under programs administered by the Housing Assistance Administration of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Included are applications, reservations and projects under selected stages of development. An Indian Project Low-rent housing developed under the auspices of an Indian Local Housing Authority. An Indian tribe which has the power to govern its Reservation under an established Constitution and By-laws can organize a Local Housing Authority to perform all legal functions pertaining to the development and management of a low-rent housing project. In Oklahoma and Maine where the tribes don't have this legal or police power the state legislatures enacted statutes to provide for the setablishment of housing authorities to perform the functions of a typical Local Housing Authority. Generally, the housing programs for Indians are developed and operated essentially in the same manner as non-Indian programs. However, the application of the Turnkey method for Indian programs does provide for two unique arrangements (a) the tribal council itself may act as the Turnkey developer for a project and then subcontract for the actual construction of the project. (b) Arrangements may be made with a developer for the employment of Indians to perform some of the construction work on the project. A further adaptation of the Turnkey method on Indian reservations provides that the developer's proposal include a provision for the itilization of self-help labor of future owners of the project. This type of program is indicated in Column 3 as IX-Indian Turnkey method-mutual or self-help project. Locality and Local Housing Authority (column 1) States are arranged alphabetically. The name of the city, town, area, reservation or tribe in which the project or project part(s) is located or the nearest post office address which serves to identify the location is listed alphabetically within each state. Where the location name is not the same as that of the Local Authority, the name of the responsible Local Authority, usually tribe or reservation, follows the nome of the locality. An Indian Reservation may extend across state lines, for example, the boundaries of the Navajo Reservation extends into three States (Utah, Arizona and New Mexico). IV Program Reservation or Project Number (column 2) The officially assigned program reservation and project number, if any, are listed serially within each location. Applications for units not yet approved show only the prefix of the project number for Local Housing Authoritie with programs in later stages. Applications, reservations and projects or parts of applications, reservations and projects for each designated location proceeding in more than one stage are listed on separate lines for each stage with respective progress dates. An example of a project number entry is as follows: Prefix Reservation Type of Program (column 3) Reservation 01 The symbol in this column indicates the type of program. Project 001 IC Indian Program--conventional-new construction (bid method) IA IS IT IX IR Indian Program--mutual or self-help Indian Program--turnkey method-new construction Housing Units (columns 4-7) The number of Indian Housing units shown is that covered by the latest development progress stage for which entries are shown (column 8-11 and 13). Total (column 4) Total number of housing units currently reported. Elderly (column 5) The number of housing units designed or to be designed speciffically for elderly families. Rehabilitation (column 6) The number of housing units which are to be or have been rehabilitated. Completed Units (column 7) The number of housing units accepted by the Local Housing Authority and 2 E |