Author(s):
W.G. Adkins, F.F. Eichman
Publication Date
September 1961
Abstract
The broad purpose of the study presented in this report was to learn something of the effects of displacement upon home owners whose property is needed for thouroughfare right-of-way purposes. To restrict the scope of the inquiry, attention was concentrated on the following questions:|1. How well were the home owners in the study area prepared to cope with the problems arising from displacement?|2. What were the effects upon their housing standards ?|3. Did they increase or decrease their outstanding debts ?|4. Where did they relocate?|Other related questions also were investigated. No attempt was made, however, to try to place a dollar value on such losses and inconveniences which are not compensable under law.|It is reasoned that the public and its action agency have two uses for the information such a study provides. First, it will help in the evaluation of alternatives should any sentiment for changes in law or policy arise. Second, it can be used as a yardstick against charges or assertions regarding the severity of noncompensable consequences of displacement by right of way.|The area in Dallas chosen for study is not one where smooth and easy adjustments by displaced persons might be expected. Rather, it is an area of older housing and of residents mostly past middle age. Almost all of the residents stated that they were permanently settled. Thus the nature of the study area itself constitutes a bias. The results cannot be considered as representative for the displacement consequences of rights of way in general; they are concerned with residents for whom resettlement and readjustment expectedly would be more difficult than for average resident-owners.
Report Number:
Bulletin No. 16
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