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President of Detroit NAACP condemns housing authorities' policies, cites statistics of unsatisfied need for Negro housing.

p. 195-233. Freedom of Residence: the People vs. Ossian H. Sweet et. al. in the Recorder's Court of Detroit--the Negro Segregation Problem. A defense attorney in the Sweet case describes it in great detail.

Of cases described, nineteen concern Negro families.

Summarizes many case studies of black with unspecified residence. Since one of the co-authors practiced psychiatry in Detroit for many years, many of cases must be of Detroiters.

Although not identifying the project by name, gives history of proposed Schoolcraft Gardens Housing. The cooperative, organized in 1946, was dissolved in 1950, after opposition from the FHA, the Detroit Mayor and local improvement associations.

"Identifies the charactersitics, problems and needs of a representative sample of 2,081 households living in blighted and substandard housing." Of persons studied, 70.5% were black.

Contents: -Recreation in Kalamazoo. -Unemployment and Underemployment in Kalamazoo. -Progress Report of the Housing Committee. -Police-Community Relations in Kalamazoo. - Some Racial Realities in Kalamazoo. Several Reports were seperately issued

"Based on data in the 1960 Censuses of Housing and Population."

On basis of statistical analysis, recommends low-cost housing construction and open occupancy