Oscar Newman papers, 1959-1998

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Series III: Starrett City: Integration = Intervention



Box 4 Folder 1 Negatives & Prints, undated



Box 4 Folder 2 Contacts, undated



Box 4 Folder 3 Correspondence, ca. 1980-86

Includes correspondence re: slide presentation in 1981; Arthur v. Starrett City case & reactions to ON's report; publishing; billing



Box 4 Folder 4 Conversations, 1983-5

With Martin Gallant re: Lefrak City; with Jim Sleeper re: Jim Morley's article; with Mike Sussman; with Rosemary Caviness of the Clarksville Housing Authority; with William North of the Nat'l Association of Realtors.



Box 4 Folder 5 Correspondence between HUD and National Association of Realtors, 1985

John Knapp and William North; includes news clippings



Box 4 Folder 6 Barbara Heyns, ca. 1984

Includes correspondence with Noel Dunivant; Heyns' CV



Box 4 Heyns, Barbara. "Summer Learning and the Effects of Schooling", 1983



Box 4 "Deposition of Barbara Heyns", 1984 Jan 20



Box 4 Folder 7 Paul Davidoff, 1982-4

Davidoff's Testimony, ON's responses, Debate, notes on the death of Davidoff



Box 4 Folder 8 Interviews [1 of 2], ca. 1983

Background on interviewees, method of interviewing, chronology of tapes, "not immediately relevant interviews," Myron Holts, Beverly Brouseaux?, Jerome Belson



Box 4 Folder 9 Interviews [2 of 2], ca. 1983

Xeroxed transcripts of interviews, notes



Box 4 Folder 10 Expert Testimony by Oscar Newman - Partial Draft, 1983 Apr



Box 4 Folder 11 Expert Testimony by Oscar Newman - Draft, 1983 Aug



Box 4 Integration = Intervention: The Use of Occupancy Controls at Starrett City, Oscar Newman, Expert Testimony in the Case of Arthur, et al. vs. Starrett City Associates, et al., 1983 Aug

[bound copy]



Box 4 Folder 12 Executive Summary of Expert Testimony by Oscar Newman, 1983

Arthur, et al. vs. Starrett City Associates, et al.



Box 4 Folder 13 Affidavit, Oscar Newman, 1983 Oct

Arthur, et al. vs. Starrett City Associates, et al.



Box 4 Deposition of Oscar Newman, 1983 Nov 11

Arthur, et al. vs. Starrett City Associates, et al.



Box 4 Folder 14 Expert Testimony by Oscar Newman, 1984 Feb

"A Comparison of Crime in Starrett City with Other Housing Developments"



Box 4 Folder 15 Proposed Table of Contents, 1984

[2 drafts]



Box 4 Folder 16 to 17 "Fair Housing: The Conflict Between Integration and Nondiscrimination" [2 folders], 1985 Nov 12-13

ICDA Prepared for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Consultation/Hearing on Housing Discrimination



Box 4 Folder 18 "Integration = Intervention: The Use of Occupancy Controls to Achieve Integration", undated

Summary of talk



Box 4 Folder 19 NCDH Lecture, 1984 Oct 26



Box 4 Folder 20 NYSAHRO Lecture, 1984 Oct

History of Starrett City and case



Box 4 Folder 21 Press Clippings, 1979-84

Articles and broadcast transcripts



Box 5 Folder 1 "Original Notes & Handwritten Pages", 1985 Nov

Paper to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; conflict between integration & nondiscrimination



Box 5 Folder 2 Notes and Drafts [1 of 8], ca. 1980s

"Part III: The Intervention Needed to Achieve Stable Integrated Housing"



Box 5 Folder 3 Notes and Drafts [2 of 8], ca. 1980s



Box 5 Folder 4 Notes and Drafts [3 of 8], ca. 1980s

Partial typed draft



Box 5 Folder 5 Notes and Drafts [4 of 8], ca. 1980s

"Report on Crime at S.ca. vs. Others"



Box 5 Folder 6 Notes and Drafts [5 of 8], ca. 1980s



Box 5 Folder 7 Notes and Drafts [6 of 8], ca. 1980s

"The Effects of Tipping"



Box 5 Folder 8 Notes and Drafts [7 of 8], ca. 1980s

"2nd to last changes"



Box 5 Folder 9 Notes and Drafts [8 of 8], ca. 1980s

Miscellaneous notes and papers



Box 5 Folder 10 "Increase in 'No-Vote' & Percent Black in NYCHA", ca. 1980s



Box 5 Folder 11 Statistics & Characteristics of Black Population in the U.S., ca. 1980s

News clippings and notes



Box 5 Folder 12 Data on Starrett City Applicants and Occupants, ca. 1982-3

Data and notes; includes correspondence with Starrett City



Box 5 Folder 13 Data on Starrett City Housing Market, ca. 1980s

Data, charts, notes, calculations



Box 5 Folder 14 ICDA Analysis of the Relationship between % Black and Crime Rate in New York City Housing Projects from 1968 to 1978, ca. 1978

Data from Noel Dunivant & Associates



Box 5 Folder 15 NYCHA Tenant Data: Characteristics, ca. 1975-83

Includes notes, data on concentration of whites in projects with less than 20% blacks



Box 5 Folder 16 DHCR Projects Data, ca. 1983



Box 5 Folder 17 Data on Comparison Projects, ca. 1980s

Notes and data on population and racial change for Lefrak, Linden Plaza, Rochdale Village, etca.



Box 5 Folder 18 Maps, 1970s-80s

Originals and Xeroxes; includes NYCHA Project Maps



Box 5 Folder 19 Review of Publications, ca. 1980s

Potomac Study of Integration Maintenance; NYC Human Rights Commission on Lefrak City; Housing Marketability Study of Lower E. New York



Box 5 Folder 20 "Abstracts from: Participation and Benefits in the Urban Section 8 Program", 1981 Jan

HUD



Box 5 Folder 21 HUD Regulations, 1972-83

Site selection, proposed new legislation, equal opportunity



Box 5 Folder 22 Papers on Quotas, 1960, 3, 5

Received from NYCHA Bob Rosenberg



Box 5 "Housing Guide to Equal Opportunity" The Potomac Institute, 1968 Jun



Box 5 Folder 23 NYC Equal Opportunity Regulations, 1968



Box 5 Jencks, Christopher. Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America, 1972

Copies of pages



Box 5 Folder 24 Lefrak City Report from NYCHR, 1976 Feb, Aug

"Lefrak City: Strategies for Stabilization in an Apartment Complex", "Lefrak City Reexamined: A Follow-Up Report on Stabilizing the Development"



Box 5 "Lefrak City in Transition: A Management Analysis and Strategy for Future Directions", 1977 Dec



Box 5 "Cooperative Intervention at Lefrak City, 1978", 1978

Advisory Services for Better Housing, Inca.



Box 5 Folder 25 Notes on Farley, Milgram, Goodwin, 1978, undated, 1979

Reynolds Farley, Howard Schuman, Suzanne Bianchi, Diane Colasanto, and Shirley Hatchett, ""Chocolate City, Vanilla Suburbs:' Will the Trend toward Racially Separate Communities Continue?" Social Science Research; Morris Milgram's Good Neighborhood; Carole Goodwin's The Oak Park Strategy



Box 5 Folder 26 Opinions on Housing and Neighborhood Conditions by Race, ca. 1980

Research material plus data



Box 5 "Black Residents' Views about Residential Integration and Achieving and Maintaining it at Starrett City", ca. 1980



Box 5 "Starrett City a Study of Ways of Maintaining an Integrated Residential Community", 1980 Feb



Box 6 Folder 1 Jane McGrew Memo: Affirmative Action, 1981 Jan 16



Box 6 Folder 2 HUD Report on Annapolis Housing Authority, 1982



Box 6 Folder 3 J.S. Fuerst Papers, 1982, 83

Fuerst, J.S. & Susan Sarcone. "Race and Property Value: A Changing Concept." Real Estate Issues, Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall/Winter 1982. ; "Slow integration best, expert says." Chicago Tribune, 1983 Jul 9.



Box 6 Folder 4 Karl Taeuber "Racial Residential Segregation", 1983 Mar



Box 6 Folder 5 Samuel Pierce Speech, 1983 Nov 14

"Remarks prepared for delivery by Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., Secretary of Housing and Urban Development before the National Association of Realtors"



Box 6 Folder 6 Mt. Laurel Decision, 1983



Box 6 Folder 7 NYC Planning Commission: Neighborhood Stabilization Program, 1983

Draft



Box 6 Folder 8 Percent of Assisted Housing Projects in NYC Surveyed, ca. 1983



Box 6 Mitchell-Lama and Redevelopment Companies, 1983

The City of New York, Department of Housing Preservation and Development



Box 6 Mitchell-Lama and Redevelopment Companies, 1984

The City of New York, Department of Housing Preservation and Development



Box 6 Folder 9 Stipulated Facts, 1984 Feb 10

Draft



Box 6 Folder 10 City of Elizabeth, NJ: Suit Against HUD, 1984 Feb

Court documents and notes



Box 6 Pretrial Brief of Defendants, 1984 Feb 21



Box 6 Memorandum of the Starrett Defendants in Support of the Settlement Agreement and in Response to the Comments of the United States, 1984 Jul 13



Box 6 Folder 11 Hearing with Judge Neaher, 1984 Jul 17

Notes



Box 6 Folder 12 Leon Weiner, North Delaware Realty Case, 1984 Jul- Sep

Court documents; memoranda; correspondence with Law Offices of Brownstein, Zeidman, and Schomer



Box 6 Folder 13 Memo to Linda Chavez, 1984 Sep 5

"basis for her talk at NCDH"



Box 6 Folder 14 Response to US Request for Admissions and Attachments 1-30, 1985



Box 6 Folder 15 Response to US Request for Admissions Attachments 31-43, 45-56, 1985



Box 6 Folder 16 yo 17 Response to US Request for Admissions Attachment 44 [2 folders], 1985

Deposition of Defendants in Arthur, et al. vs. Starrett City Associates, et al.



Box 6 Folder 18 Robert Rosenberg "Starrett City: A Case Study in Integration", 1985 Mar/Apr

Journal of Property Management



Box 6 Folder 19 Holyoke Housing Authority Consent Decree, 1985 Nov 21



Box 6 Folder 20 Judge Neaher's Opinion, 1987 May 5

Opinion and order



Box 6 Folder 21 2nd Circuit Decision, 1988 Mar 1

Includes correspondence with Peter Buscemi



Box 6 Folder 22 Vacancies, Move Outs 1986-8, 1986-8

Data and notes; includes correspondence with Nadine J. Siegel, Grenadier Realty Corp.



Box 6 Folder 23 Robert Rosenberg "National Neighbors Speech", undated