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More HOUSING
Projects 10 End
1894 Units Involved
In Latest Bi-RuciuI
Decisions by NCHA
By George Beveridee

OCSICSdIIOIl Will U6 wiped OuC
in nine more public housing
projects here, containing 1884
dwelling units, within the next
four months.
Coupled with units already OPP
Grating on an integration policy,
this will mean that 81 per cent
of all the National Capital Hous-
ing Authority's permanent low
rent units will be open to both
white and colored occupancy, re-
ported James Ring, NCHA exec
utive secretary.
The agency'S policy is to
eliminate segregation as soon as
1t is determined that school,
recreation and other neighbor-
hood facilities are adequate in
specific areas to provide for both
white and colored families.
Five on October 1.
After hearing a study report
on each area yesterday, the
NCHA board voted unanimously
to:
l. Apply the non-segregation
policy as of October l to five
projects now open only to coll
ored families. The five are:
Kelly Miller Dwellings, 1863 units,
w and Fifth streets and Oakdale
place NV: Williston Apart
ments, 81 units. w street between
Second and Fourth streets NV:
V Street Houses, 18 units, v
street, between Fourth and Fifth
streets NV; Langston, 274 units,
Benning road and Twenty first
street NE, and Hopkins Place,
% units, L street. between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets
Sc.
2. Apply the integration policy
as OF next January to one prof.
ect now restricted to white fam
lilies and three restricted to COL
ored. The white project is the
Fort Dupont Dwellings, with 325
units, at Ridge and AnacoStia
roads Sc. The other three in
clude the Barry Farms Dwellings,
442 units, Wade and Sumner
roads and Firth Sterling avenue
Sc; James Creek Dwellings, 279
units, M, o, Half and First streets
S.W., and Parkside Dwellings,
373 units, Kenilworth avenue and
Barnes lane NE.
Decision Deferred.
3. Defer integration of the 440-
unit Lincoln Heights Dwelling,
Fiftieth street and Washington
place NE. now occupied only
by colored families.
4. Make no determination i'm
mediately as to whether the 391-
unit East Capitol Street DWELL
ingS, under construction at Fifty
eighth and East Capitol streets
NE, shall be integrated. This
project, originally planned for
Negro occupancy is only about
% per cent completed.
The agency decided to defer
integration of the Lincoln
Heights project because a study
showed its neighborhood lacks
basic public facilities to serve
the needs of white tenant fami-
lies" For the same reason. the
NCHA specifically has deferred
integration of two other projects
under construction the Rich
ardson Dwellings. 100 colored
units at Fifty-third and Clay
streets NE, and Highland
Dwellings Addition, 256 white
units at Eighth street and VAL
ley avenue Sc. These, however,
are the only projects excluded
from integration.
Five projects earlier have been
opened to both white and COL
ored families.
Reports No Friction.
In answer to a question yes
terday, Harvey Everett, NCHA
assistant management chief.
told the board there has been
absolutely no friction" where
either white or colored families
have moved into previously seq
regated projects. In the 348-unit
Stanton Dwellings, he said, there
are % white and 325 colored
families. In the Ellen Wilson
Dwellings, integrated only for
the last few months, two Negro
families have moved into the
previously all-white project.
c. Melvin Sharpe, NCHA
chairman, said he had received
"a number of telephone threats"
that white families would move
out if colored occupants we're
assigned to white projects. Mr..
Everett said there have been
mo move-outS" for that reason.
Mr.. Ring stressed that in the
few projects not yet integrated,
action has been merely de
ferred." He said it was the agency
policy to keep "a close and con-
tinuing check on all neighbor-
hoods in which public housing
properties are located to the
end that the Gntegration) policy
of the authority shall be made
effective . at the earliest prac-
ticable date"