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The housing stock condition measured for the entire target area as the lowest for all target areas. It should be pointed out that the number of units constituted this as the smallest survey area and portions or blocks of the larger target areas if considered separately could receive similar ratings. The Multiple Unit Survey questionnaire recieved 308 unit responses from this census tract which contains three target areas and 157 units were in target areas, 140 in one block fringe areas around target areas, and only 11 distinctly separate from target areas. The average rent was $127.00 for all units with one bedrooms averaging $121.00 per month; two bedrooms, $150.00; and three bedrooms, $1980.00. One out of three units were 20 years older and about one-third of the tenants moved within one year. The 1970 Block Statistics showed a total of 132 units with 52 (39%) being owner occupied and 75 (57%) rentals. The average value of an owner unit for the census tract was $19,200.O0. Un- fortunately the number of owner units in the target area were in&ufficient to allow release of valuation information. The aver- age contract rent for the target area was $84.50 compared with $]04.00 for the census tract. Five units were indicated as lack- ing some or all plumbing facilities, 13 were listed as single person households, and 13 units having a female head of household. Twenty-nine percent of the units in 1970 were listed as having 1.01 or more persons per room. The 1970 population of 474 would be estimated in 1974 to be 320. B. This target area consists of twenty-six blocks in por- tions of Census Tracts 744.01, 750.02, 746.02, and 745.01 bounded generally by Chestnut Avenue on the south, Fourth Street on the north, Cypress Avenue on the west, and Minnie and Garfield Streets on the east. A total of 525 residential units were parcel-by- parcel surveyed as to housing conditon. Units built before 1945 constituted 74.5 percent of the total (391 units) and one out of six units could be anticipated for termination of use within ten years. Approximately one-sixth of the units were also rated poor in both quality of maintenance and premise rating. The entire target area would generally be of mid-range longevity and fair in premise rating giving rise to a fair rating of the overall housing stock condition. The questionnaire eliciting information concerning multiple unit rentals showed an average contract rent of $119.00 for the general area. This included a total of 673 units of which forty- nine percent were within target areas within the various census tracts and twenty-five percent were located in abutting fringe or potential problem areas. Thirty percent of the units were twenty years or olde~' and about one-third of the units have a change f tenure within one year. 00012