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around to adopting a minimum housing ordinance based on the American Public Health Assn, model. But the ordinance permits owners of slum property to appeal directly to the council. Since the council has shown a studied disinterest in renewal, Mangiamele fears the appeals system will handcuff the fight on slums.
The Omaha political atmosphere, Mangiamele charged, "is not conducive to good city planning. It will be a matter of a few years before the people become aware of the need."
Before he leaves town, Mangiamele hopes to persuade a convention rewriting Omaha's city charter to shift urban renewal to the friendlier canopy of the city-county health department. Actually, he thinks renewal will work better as a separate office reporting to the mayor (as do most experts). But he sees no chance of getting that. And several of the health department's seven-member board, including Mrs. Keeth Graham, its president, have taken active roles in promoting rehabilitation.
Chicago builders find Russian housing backward
If the 18-man NAHB delegation currently touring Russia learns anything, it may well be what not to do in home building.
The group arrived in Moscow June 15 for a 30-day housing inspection in 12 cities from Leningrad to Tashkent near the Red China border.
The itinerary is supposedly geared to include climatic conditions ranging from subarctic Siberia to semitropical Caspian sea resorts, so that the builders can learn how Russians meet a range of weather and geological conditions like those in the US.
Two months ago, six Chicago area builders visited Russia on their own hook to see how the Soviets build houses. Last month, they were back with woeful tales of slovenly work methods and substandard housing conditions.
The six Gerald and Sinclair Hoffman, their father, Albert, Jerry Wexler, Joe Willens and Ed Schiller said they were appalled to find 75% of building labor done by hand by unskilled women. Any one of the female crew was selected at random to do the plastering, painting or electrical work. The resulting craftsmanship is so poor they doubted anyone in the US would accept it.
Russian building standards are way behind the West, too. In Kiev, for example, the group found electrical equipment in new apartment buildings consisted of one wall plug and a ceiling cord in each room, with wires simply stapled to the plaster walls. Broken asphalt-cemented waste pipes filled buildings with sewer gas, and ill-fitting gas pipes were packed with rags.
The builders said that the Soviet goal is one two-bedroom apartment for each family. At present an entire family is packed into one room.
Consensus of the six builders: "We have never seen any place as depressing as Russia. There is no joy of living."
The present NAHB trip reciprocates a visit of Russian housing experts to the US last October, with NAHB acting as host. The Russian government is paying the expenses continued on p. 100