SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

This is primarily a personal reference collection of reports, memoranda, speeches, and briefing and study material from David Meeker’s work at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and elsewhere. Major topics include HUD programs for housing, community development, disaster assistance, national growth policy, urban policy, and the celebration of the Bicentennial.

QUANTITY
9.6 linear feet (ca. 19,200 pages)

DONOR
Laura K. Meeker (accession number 1990-NLF-035)

ACCESS
Open. Some items may be temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or under National Archives and Records Administration general restrictions (36 CFR 1256).

COPYRIGHT
Laura K. Meeker donated to the United States of America her late husband’s copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain.

Prepared by Stacy Davis, March 2004
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

David O. Meeker

May 19, 1924 - Born in Clifton Springs, New York

1943-1945 - Corporal, U.S. Army (World War II)

1950 - Yale University (Bachelor of Architecture)

1952-1956 - Architectural Designer

1956-1969 - Architect, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Director at James Associates, Inc.

1962 - University of Copenhagen and Royal Academy of Art, Graduate School for Foreign Students, Graduate School Certificate in Architecture, Fulbright Scholar

1968-1971 - Acting Director and Director, Department of Metropolitan Development, City of Indianapolis

1968-1969 - Director, Indianapolis Model Cities Program

1968-1970 - Member, Mayor of Indianapolis Task Forces on Housing and Relocation, Model Cities, Black Capitalism

1972-1973 - Deputy Mayor, City of Indianapolis

1973-1976 - Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development

1974-1976 - Chairman, Federal Agency Bicentennial Task Force Subcommittee, Domestic Council

1974-1976 - Chairman, Long Range Economic Disaster Recovery Task Force, Domestic Council

1977-1978 - Endowed Chair in Urban Studies and Public Service, Cleveland State University

1978-1983 - Executive Vice President, American Institute of Architects

November 23, 1987 - Deceased

INTRODUCTION

David O. Meeker had a long career in public service for both the city of Indianapolis, Indiana and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In Indianapolis, Meeker served several positions: Acting Director and Director of the Department of Metropolitan Development, Director of the Indianapolis Model Cities Program; member of the Mayor’s Task Forces on Housing and Relocation, Model Cities, Black Capitalism; and served as Deputy Mayor. As Deputy Mayor, he was charged with development activities for the city and the coordination of all state, federal, and private funding.

In May 1973, Meeker was asked by the White House to become the Assistant Secretary of Community Planning and Development for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It was a new position in HUD as a result of consolidating the Community Planning and Management and Community Development functions. He accepted President Nixon’s offer and started on July 31, 1973.

Meeker coordinated the programs of various government agencies that had a major impact on community development, including the inter-agency task forces that prepared the biennial Report on National Growth and Development for President Gerald Ford in 1974 and 1976. This assignment was delegated from the President’s Domestic Council, and the reports were presented to the Congress as required by the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970.

One of Meeker’s major HUD responsibilities was the development, negotiation, and implementation the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, which was enacted by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. The primary objective of this act was the development of viable urban communities by providing decent housing and expanding economic opportunities through the elimination of slums and blight, and increasing the supply of low- and moderate-income housing. Other goals were the conservation of existing housing, improvements of public services, improvement in use of land, and the preservation of property with special values. This act replaced the following categorical grant programs: Urban Renewal, Model Cities, Neighborhood Development Program, Water and Sewer, Neighborhood Facilities, Open Space, Public Facilities Loans, Urban Beautification, Code Enforcement, Historic Preservation, and Rehabilitation Loans. Meeker was responsible for the administration of these programs as they were phased out.

Meeker was the Chairman of the Federal Agency Bicentennial Task Force, and he was responsible for the development and coordination of HUD’s Bicentennial projects, the funding of the Philadelphia and Washington Bicentennial projects, and the program development for “Horizons on Display.” “Horizons on Display” was a program for the Bicentennial theme “Horizons 76” that was jointly sponsored by HUD and the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (ARBA) It was also the official U.S. demonstration project for Habitat, the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements held in Vancouver, Canada, May 31-June 11 1976. It recognized 200 solutions to community development needs in ten broad areas: citizen involvement, communications, community development, economic development, environment, health, human values and understanding, learning, leisure, and transportation. Mr. Meeker was the permanent United States Representative to the Habitat conference.

Meeker was Disaster Coordinator for the President and a member of the board of directors for the Community Development Corporation, a corporation within HUD that administered the New Communities program. He was also involved in budget planning, environmental quality and planning activities, relocation policies, urban design, rehabilitation loans and grants, comprehensive planning assistance, state and local management assistance, project review, relocation policies.

Meeker resigned his position in September 1976.

In March 1977, Meeker accepted the first endowed Chair in Urban Studies and Public Service at Cleveland State University. His duties were to conduct graduate-level courses in public policy development, public service and urban concerns. He was also to act as a catalyst in the community to cause things to happen, notably in neighborhood revitalization, to get major projects off the ground and to stimulate public-private ventures. He held this position until March 1978.

In April 1978, Meeker became the Executive Vice President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), a professional membership organization. In addition to supervising employees of the organization, he was responsible for government liaison lobbying, membership development, speaking on national issues, liaison with allied organizations, and meeting the annual goals of the Institute.

The Meeker Papers
This collection appears to be Meeker’s personal reference collection, rather than his official files. It contains documents that he accumulated and used mostly during his tenure at HUD and AIA, but also contains materials from his positions for the city of Indianapolis and Cleveland State University. It includes published reports, draft reports, papers, studies, memoranda, routine and personal correspondence, copies of official HUD correspondence and memoranda, clippings, publications, speeches, testimony, briefing books, meeting books, and notes.

This collection alone does not give a clear sense of Meeker’s role at HUD, or his relationship with Secretaries James Lynn and Carla A. Hills. One notable exception is Meeker’s deposition for United States v. Cedar-Riverside. In this deposition he discusses his career in local and federal government, and provides detailed information about federal aid to communities, the New Communities Program, and the Cedar-Riverside area in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Materials related to housing, economic development, urban policy, federal aid, and growth policy are present throughout this collection. One particular topic that is heavily documented is the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. The collection contains sample application forms, Congressional oversight hearing briefing books, the first annual report, sample grantee performance report forms, and information related to litigation, amendments to the program, and CDBG programs in specific communities.

There is quite a bit of information related to the Bicentennial celebration, including HUD bicentennial programs, program funding, Philadelphia activities, American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (ARBA) publications on citizen involvement, and publications produced jointly by ARBA and HUD for “Horizon’s on Display.” For example, the collection includes “Challenge/Response” papers on transportation, economic development, leisure, and the environment. These papers were designed to stimulate discussions of problems and needs at the community level, and used many of the responses embodied in “Horizons on Display.”

Materials related to disaster assistance document HUD’s participation in long-range economic recovery efforts. The collection contains information related to the recovery efforts following severe tornadoes that struck the South and Midwest in April 1974, especially in the hardest hit area of Xenia, Ohio. It includes options for recovery, status reports, and materials related to other federal agency interaction. There is also information related to the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, which was passed immediately following those tornadoes. The act strengthened and streamlined the use of existing federal assistance programs.

There are also handwritten-notes, clippings, and letters of recommendation related to Meeker’s possible nomination as Secretary of HUD in 1975. Other topics covered in this collection include HUD budget planning for 1975-1978, Carla A. Hills’ appointment as Secretary, national growth and development policy, the 1974 and 1976 Report on National Growth and Development, the New Community Development Corporation and its funded new communities, 1974 Summit Conference on Inflation, urban studies on Detroit and Boston, and other materials related to urban design, energy, environmental protection, community development.

Materials related to Meeker’s work in Indianapolis include a correspondence, clippings, and a 1972 Development Strategy for Indianapolis. Documents from his work at Cleveland State include requests for funding, correspondence, and reports related to neighborhood revitalization, economic development, and juvenile delinquency.

Finally, AIA materials document architecture, housing, urban design, and the AIA’s interaction with HUD. It includes a small amount of correspondence with HUD officials, including Secretaries Donna Shalala and Patricia Roberts Harris; and the “HUD 518 Final Report,” which details a program that provided homeowners with an opportunity to have Section 518 claims reviewed by an impartial third party (AIA and the AIA Research Corporation).

Related Materials (March 2004)
Other materials directly related to David Meeker and the Department of Housing and Urban Development can be found in the White House Central Files Name File; White House Central Files Subject File categories FG 24 Department of Housing and Urban Development and HS Housing; the Carla A. Hills Speeches collection, and the Housing and Urban Development Subject File of the F. Lynn May Files. Additional materials related to housing are extensively documented in numerous Library collections.

Material related to urban policy during the Ford administration is documented in the Arthur F. Burns Papers, L. William Seidman Files, and the files of Domestic Council staff James Cannon and F. Lynn May.

Materials related to the Bicentennial can be found in the Milton E. Mitler Files, John O. Marsh Files, and the files of Domestic Council staff Andre Buckles and Stephen McConahey. There are also materials in White House Central Files categories FG 75 American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, FG 370 American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, GI 3 Gifts to President (includes Bicentennial) and PR 8-1 American Bicentennial Celebration.

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

Subject File, 1971-1984.  (Boxes 1-24, 9.6 linear feet)
Memoranda, routine and personal correspondence, reports, clippings, publications, speeches, testimony, briefing books, and notes related to Meeker’s role as Assistant Secretary of Community Planning and Development. Topics include housing, federal aid, urban policy, urban renewal, growth policy, the biennial Report on National Growth and Development, Bicentennial celebration, budgets, disaster assistance, environment, economic development, energy, transportation, Community Development Block Grants, 1974 Summit Conference on Inflation, and the appointment of Carla A. Hills as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Material also relates to Meeker’s tenure as Executive Vice President of the American Institute of Architects, and a few items relate to his work for the city of Indianapolis.

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

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CONTAINER LIST

Box 1 - Subject File

• American Institute of Architects (AIA)
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) - 1980 AIA Firm Survey
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) - Architectural Technology Business Plan
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) - Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (1)-(2)
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) - HUD 518 Final Report
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) - HUD Facts 1980: 12 Programs of Interest to Architects
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) - Outline of Urban Design Policy Statement
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) - Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team (R/UDAT)
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) - Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team (R/UDAT) - Hawaii (1)-(3)
• American Institute of Planners (AIP)
• Annual Congressional City Conference of the United States Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities - President Ford's Remarks
• Bicentennial
• Bicentennial - American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (ARBA)

Box 2 - Subject File

• Bicentennial - Challenge/Response Resource Papers - Economic Development and Transportation
• Bicentennial - Challenge/Response Resource Papers - Environment and Leisure
• Bicentennial - Department of Housing and Urban Development (1)-(2)
• Bicentennial - Federal Agency Bicentennial Task Force
• Bicentennial - Federal Approach
• Bicentennial - Habitat, United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (1)-(2)
• Bicentennial - Horizons on Display
• Bicentennial - Horizons on Display - A Catalogue of Community Achievement
• Bicentennial - Philadelphia '76, Inc. (1)-(2)

Box 3 - Subject File

• Budgets
• Budgets - FY1974
• Budgets - FY1975
• Budgets - FY1975 - Community Planning and Development Budget Justifications, Office of Management and Budget Hearings, 10/1973 (1)-(5)
• Budgets - FY1975 - Hearings on Proposed Rescissions and Deferrals
• Budgets - FY1975 - Proposed Deferral, Comprehensive Planning Grants - House Appropriation Committee Hearings
• Budgets - FY1975 - Subcommittee on HUD - Space - Science - Veterans of the House Committee on Appropriations (1)-(2)

Box 4 - Subject File

• Budgets - FY1975 - Subcommittee on HUD - Space - Science - Veterans of the House Committee on Appropriations (3)-(5)
• Budgets - FY1976
• Budgets - FY1977
• Budgets - FY1977 - Background on Budget Impact on HUD Programs
• Budgets - FY1977 - Community Planning and Development Operating Plan (1)-(2)
• Budgets - FY1977 - Subcommittee on HUD - Independent Agencies of the House Committee on Appropriations - Community Development Background Book (1)-(3)
• Budgets - FY1978 (1)-(2)

Box 5 - Subject File

• Budgets - FY1980
• Busing
• Caldwell, William S.
• Cleveland State University - Institute of Urban Studies (1)-(2)
• Community Development (1)-(2)
• Community Development - Draft Staff Analysis: Reorganization Study of Community Development and Local Economic Development Functions
• Community Development - Model Cities Program
• Community Development - Report: A Development Strategy For Indianapolis, Volume I
• Community Development - Report: A Development Strategy for Indianapolis, Volume II
• Community Development - Washington, D.C.
• Community Development - Working Paper Series: Community Development Partnerships, Issues and Methods

Box 6 - Subject File

• Community Development Block Grants (1)-(2)
• Community Development Block Grants - Amendments to Regulations
• Community Development Block Grants - Application Forms and Procedures
• Community Development Block Grants - CDBG Execution: Problems and Prospects
• Community Development Block Grants - Cleveland, Ohio
• Community Development Block Grants - Clippings
• Community Development Block Grants - Federal Register (1)-(2)
• Community Development Block Grants - First Annual Report (1)-(2)

Box 7 - Subject File

• Community Development Block Grants - First Annual Report (3)-(6)
• Community Development Block Grants - Grantee Performance Report Forms
• Community Development Block Grants - House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development Oversight Hearings (1)-(6)

Box 8 - Subject File

• Community Development Block Grants - Housing and Community Development Act of 1977
• Community Development Block Grants - Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1981
• Community Development Block Grants - Litigation
• Community Development Block Grants - Monitoring
• Community Development Block Grants - Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Oversight Hearings (1)-(2)
• Community Development Corporation
• Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Awards
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Carter Administration Transition
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Draft Reports: HUD - Issues and Opportunities
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Office of Community Planning and Development
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Press Clippings
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Press Releases
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Programs
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Publications (1)-(2)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Regulatory Reform Testimony

Box 9 - Subject File

• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Report: Current Status of Major Programs
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Secretarial Appointment (1)-(2)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Secretarial Appointment - Carla A. Hills (1)-(2)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Secretarial Appointment - Clippings
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Secretarial Appointment - David O. Meeker, Jr. Nomination
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Secretarial Appointment - David O. Meeker, Jr. Nomination - Letters of Recommendation (1)-(3)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development - Secretarial Appointment - Handwritten Notes (1)-(2)
• Detroit Study (1)-(3)

Box 10 - Subject File

• Disaster Assistance (1)-(3)
• Disaster Assistance - Disaster Relief Act Amendments of 1974
• Disaster Assistance - Monticello, Indiana
• Disaster Assistance - Pennsylvania
• Disaster Assistance - Report: An Analysis of Federal Policy for Disaster Recovery Assistance (1)-(2)
• Disaster Assistance - Xenia, Ohio (1)-(5)
• Domestic Policy Review, Introduction to

Box 11 - Subject File

• Economic Development
• Economic Development - Interagency Program in Economic Development (1)-(2)
• Economic Development - Hudson Institute Seminar on Economic Development Briefing Notes
• Economic Development - Report: Coordinated Urban Economic Development, A Case Study Catalogue (1)-(5)
• Economic Development - Research Report: Bridges to the Future: Forces Impacting Urban Economies
• Economic Development Through State Planning, Final Report and Project Conclusions
• Energy
• Energy - Briefing Book for the House Subcommittee on Oversight Investigations (1)-(2)

Box 12 - Subject File

• Energy - Briefing Book for the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (3)
• Energy - Paper: The Least Cost Energy Strategy Minimizing Consumer Costs Through Competition
• Environment
• Environment - Land Use
• Environment - Special Procedures Relating to Environmental Review
• Federal Assistance Review Program - Proceedings of the Mid-Year Workshop
• Federal Planning Assistance Programs (1)-(3)
• Federal Planning Assistance Programs - A Report to the Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives (1)-(3)
• Federalism
• Federalism - President Reagan's State of the Union Address
• Federalism - Reading Materials for the Seminar in Making Federalism Work (1)-(2)

Box 13 - Subject File

• Hills, Carla Anderson
• Housing Assistance (1)-(2)
• Housing Assistance - A Summary Report of Current Findings from the Experimental Housing Allowance Program (EHAP)
• Housing Assistance - The Long Term Costs of Lower - Income Housing Assistance Programs
• Housing Assistance Plan
• Housing Block Grants (1)-(4)
• Housing Opportunity Plans
• Highlights of Activities of the Census Use Study for the Month of July 1973
• Joint Executive Legislative Steering Committee Members
• Lynn, James T.

Box 14 - Subject File

• Meeker, David Olan
• Meeker, David Olan - Appointment as Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development
• Meeker, David Olan - Correspondence with President Gerald R. Ford
• Meeker, David Olan - News Clippings
• Meeker, David Olan - Personal Correspondence (1)-(2)
• Meeker, David Olan - Personnel Forms
• Meeker, David Olan - Photographs
• Meeker, David Olan - Resignation
• Meetings, Conferences, and Other Events (1)-(6)

Box 15 - Subject File

• Meetings, Conferences, and Other Events (7)-(8)
• National Conference on Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization
• National Growth and Development (1)-(2)
• National Growth and Development - 1974 National Report (1)-(2)
• National Growth and Development - 1978 National Report
• National Growth and Development - Assessment of the Institutional Requirements for Developing and Implementing National Growth Policy
• National Growth and Development - Balanced National Growth and Development Act of 1974
• National Growth and Development - Federal Interagency Task Force on the 1976 Growth and Development Report
• National Growth and Development - National Growth Policy
• National Growth and Development - National Development Bank

Box 16 - Subject File

• National Growth and Development - Options Paper on Sewer Moratoria
• National Growth and Development - Orientation and Terms of Reference: One Approach for Interagency Cooperation in Preparing the President's Biennial Report to Congress (1)-(3)
• National Growth and Development - Preliminary Draft of a Concept Paper on the Nation Growth and Development Process (1)-(2)
• National Growth and Development - Report: Compendium of Growth Trends, Policy, Responses, and Research Issues (1)-(2)
• National Growth and Development - Report of the National Policy Task Force
• National Growth and Development - Testimony: Comments Relating to the President's Report on Growth and Development
• National Urban Leadership Roundtable

Box 17 - Subject File

• Neighborhoods
• New Community Development Corporation - Board of Directors Meeting Book for March 16, 1976 (1)-(4)
• New Community Development Corporation - Board of Directors Meeting Book for June 24, 1976 (1)-(9)

Box 18 - Subject File

• New Community Development Corporation - Board of Directors Meeting Book for August 5, 1976
• New Community Development Corporation - Board of Directors Meeting Minutes for August 4, 1976
• New Community Development Corporation - Granada New Community
• New Community Development Corporation - New Communities Program Evaluation
• New Community Development Corporation - Revision of Board Book Material for August 1976 Meeting
• Poverty
• President Ford's Meeting with Mayors on August 16, 1974
• President-Elect Reagan's Domestic and Economic Policy Advisory Task Forces Announced October 23, 1980
• President's Committee on Urban Development and Neighborhood Revitalization
• President's Committee on Urban Development and Neighborhood Revitalization - Liaison Committee
• Press Clippings
• Public Forum on Domestic Policy in Tampa, Florida
• Public Forum on Domestic Policy in Tampa, Florida - Transportation
• Publications

Box 19 - Subject File

• Publications - Journal of Housing for December 11, 1976
• Publications - MEMO, Newsletter of the American Institute of Architects
• Publications - National Journal, 1976
• Publications - PLAN, Review of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning
• Publications - Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 06/21/1976 - 07/12/1976
• Speeches, Remarks, and Testimony - Hills, Carla Anderson
• Speeches, Remarks, and Testimony - Meeker, David O., Jr.
• Speeches, Remarks, and Testimony - Waner, John L.
• R. L. Polk and Co. - Profiles of Change
• Regional Growth and Development
• Regional Growth and Development - Report: Carrying Capacity Action Research: A Case Study in Selective Growth Management, Oahu, Hawaii
• Regional Growth and Development - Report: The Cleveland Economy in Transition - Implications for the Future

Box 20 - Subject File

• Regional Growth and Development - Informational Hearings on Regional Growth and Development
• Regional Growth and Development - Statements and Remarks Given at Informational Hearing on Regional Growth and Development, San Francisco, California (1)-(3)
• Rural Development
• Rural Development - Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Agriculture Rural Demonstration Delivery System
• Rural Development - Goals for Rural Development Report (1)-(2)
• Secretary Carla Hills' Conference at Camp David on FY 1977-1978 Program and Budget Issues, June 1976 (1)-(3)
• Secretary Carla Hills' Conference at Camp David on FY 1977-1978 Program and Budget Issues, June 1976 - Logistics
• Secretary Carla Hills' Conference at Camp David on FY 1977-1978 Program and Budget Issues, June 1976 - Strategy for Providing Assistance to the Poor

Box 21 - Subject File

• Strategy Inc. - Nick P. Thomas, Consultant
• Summit Conference on Inflation, 1974
• Summit Conference on Inflation, 1974 - Housing and Construction Conference on Inflation
• Summit Conference on Inflation, 1974 - State and Local Government Conference on Inflation
• Summit Conference on Inflation, 1974 - Questionnaire and Responses
• Tax Relief
• United States of America v. Cedar-Riverside Land Company - David Meeker Deposition (1)-(3)
• Urban Design
• Urban Design - A Collection of Papers on Urban Environmental Design, 1967-1976
• Urban Design - National Endowment for the Arts, Architecture and Environmental Arts Program Selected Grants Booklets, 1966-1977 (1)

Box 22 - Subject File

• Urban Design - National Endowment for the Arts, Architecture, and Environmental Arts Program Selected Grants Booklets, 1967-1977 (2)
• Urban Development (1)-(2)
• Urban Development - Digest of State Programs Urging Redevelopment (Ohio), September 1976
• Urban Development - Paper: Cities in Trouble, 1976
• Urban Development - Paper: The City As Dynamo
• Urban Development - Paper: The Future of the Industrial Midwest, A Proposal for a Regional Action Research Program
• Urban Development - Report: Unified Private Sector Political Action For the Great Lakes Urban Region, Feasibility Assessment Survey
• Urban Development - Transcript: The Brookings Institution Roundtable Discussion on Urban Development Banking, 03/21/1977
• Urban Development Action Grant Program, 1977
• Urban Development Corporation
• Urban Growth and New Community Development Act of 1970, Excerpts From
• Urban Policy, 1970-1978 (1)-(2)

Box 23 - Subject File

• Urban Policy - Clippings, 1976-1978
• Urban Policy - Paper: Neighborhood Decentralization: An Option for Urban Policy (1)-(2)
• Urban Policy - Paper: Visions Without Revisions: Urban Policy Orientations of the Kennedy - Johnson Years, 08/1976
• Urban Policy - President Carter: A New Partnership to Conserve America's Communities, 1978
• Urban Policy - Publication: Public Administration Review Special Issue: The Impact of Resource Scarcity on Urban Public Finance, 01/1981
• Urban Policy - Report: National Urban Policy Organization Review, 07/1974
• Urban Policy - Report: Planning New Towns: National Reports of the United States and USSR, March 1981
• Urban Policy - Report: Soviet New Towns, Housing and National Urban Growth Policy
• Urban Policy - Report: A Tax Base Sharing Proposal
• Urban Renewal

Box 24 - Subject File

• Urban Renewal Land Disposition Study, Boston, Massachusetts (1)-(5)
• Urban Resources and Management Assistance Act - Draft of Senate Bill, 1977
• Vice President's News Conference
• Washington Dialogue
• Westinghouse Urban Systems Center - Comprehensive Financial Management Transfer Program Proposal
• White House Program, 7/14/1976
• White House Public Forum on Domestic Policy, Tampa, Florida, 07/14/1976 (1)-(2)