Housing Survey

The collection consists of studies, surveys, reports, and organizational materials from the Model City Program. The records document the condition of south-central Minneapolis in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as the future that planners envisioned for it.

Boxes 1-2 and 8 contain drafts and final reports from the program's many committees, meeting minutes of the Policy and Planning Committee, and organizational information. Boxes 3-4 and 9-10 contain publicity material, calendars, memoranda, and meeting minutes of program committees and subcommittees. Boxes 5-7 contain files and photographs that document the condition of buildings, listed by address, within the Model Neighborhood Area as part of a housing survey. Boxes 11-12 contain preliminary and official program planning and evaluation documentation used for reporting to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the City of Minneapolis. Box 13 contains aerial photographic negatives of the model city region.