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TARGET AREA CHARACTERISTICS <br /> <br />Urban Futures conducted a Housing Stock Condition <br />Survey on a parcel by parcel basis of areas indicated <br />by this study and analysis to be of intense housing <br />or socio-economic concern. <br /> <br />Eleven housing target areas were identified consisting <br />'of 4,018 households. All but one of the target areas <br />had suffered loss of units and population since the <br />1970 Census. <br /> <br />More than sixty-four percent of the housing units <br />were built prior to 1945 and approximately one out <br />of six units had a life expectancy of less than ten <br />years. Units rated as "poor" regarding Quality of <br />Maintenance constituted 17.6% of the total and those <br />with a Premise Rating of "poor", 18%. <br /> <br />The Central Corridor Area of Santa Aha, aligned with <br />First Street in an east-west direction between Grand <br />Avenue and Fairview Street, contains six target areas <br />with the bulk of the poorest-rated units in terms of <br />overall housing stock condition. The six Central <br />Corridor target areas are within the seven worst <br />housing areas of Santa Aha and represent 60.7% of <br />the total units in the eleven target areas. <br /> <br />Of the eleven, the worst rated target area was located <br />north of First Street on the east and west sides of <br />Grand Avenue between McClay Street and the Atchison, <br />Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad up to Fourth Street. It <br />was followed by the Logan Street Area and Progresso <br />Area in second and third worst ratings respectively. <br /> <br />Each target area had both lower values for owner <br />occupied units and lower contract rents than their <br />respective census tracts based on the 1970 Census <br />Block Statistics. In each target area the percentage <br />of units with 1.01 persons or more per room exceeded <br />the percentage for the census tracts in which they were <br />located. <br /> <br />On the relative rating of the severity of the identi- <br />fied areas of housing problems, the areas west of the <br />Santa Aha River achieved the best overall housing <br />condition rating and constituted the <br />neighborhoods known as Santa Anita and <br />Silver Acres. These locations were <br />followed by the Southeast[Delhi ~arget <br />Area as the next least severe. <br /> <br />000018 <br /> <br /> <br />