Guide to the Stanford University, Housing Advisory Committee, Records
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
Call Number: SC0175
Creator:
Stanford University. Housing Advisory Committee.
Title: Stanford University, Housing Advisory Committee, records
Dates: 1968-1974
Physical Description:
1 Linear feet
Summary: Records include correspondence, notes, data, draft and final report, committee meeting minutes, newsclippings, and other documents
assembled by committee chairman, Professor Gordon Wright.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Administrative transfer, Gordon Wright, 1977.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
Stanford University, Housing Advisory Committee, Records (SC0175). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
The ad hoc Housing Advisory Committee, established in 1969 by the President of Stanford University, studied the possibilities
of development of low and middle income housing on Stanford land; final recommendations were submitted in 1974.
Description of the Collection
Records include correspondence, notes, data, draft and final report, committee meeting minutes, newsclippings, and other documents
assembled by committee chairman, Professor Gordon Wright.
Access Terms
Stanford University. Housing Advisory Committee.
Wright, Gordon.
Clippings.
Minutes.
Public housing.
Reports.
Universities and colleges--Planning.
Box 1, Folder 1
Low Cost Housing Committee
1969 Apr 12
Scope and Content Note
(appointed by Acting President Glasser, November 1968) : Final report. (20 leaves, two xerographic copies)
Box 1, Folder 2
Housing Advisory Committee Charge and Board of Trustees Approval
1969
Scope and Content Note
Pres. Kenneth Pitzer's charge to the Ad Hoc Housing Advisory Committee, 29 October 1969.; Approval of recommendation of the
Board's Committee on Land Development, 13 June 1969.
Box 1, Folder 3
Committee Meetings with the Board of Trustees and President Pitzer
1969 Dec-1970 Mar
Scope and Content Note
Minutes and correspondence
Box 1, Folder 4
Housing Advisory Committee Meetings
1969 Nov 12-1970 Apr 23
Scope and Content Note
Minutes
Box 1, Folder 5
Correspondence
1969
Scope and Content Note
Includes - Report of Alan S. Maremont, 28 October 1969; Junior faculty housing survey, January 1969; E.A. Scoles Junior faculty
housing proposal, November 1969; Stanford Housing Research Group
Box 1, Folder 6
Correspondence
1969 Oct-1970 Jan
Scope and Content Note
Re: Committee membership
Box 1, Folder 7
Correspondence
1970 Jan
Scope and Content Note
Includes - Stanford Conservation Group's report to the Committee; Minutes of a "grass roots" meeting to discuss Stanford's
responsibilities in ecology and housing crises, 7 January 1970
Box 1, Folder 8
Correspondence
1970 Feb-May
Scope and Content Note
Includes - comments from Stanford's legal advisors
Box 1, Folder 9
Committee Notes and Data
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
Abstracted data from P.A. Wilson's "The effect of Stanford University on the local housing market" (1969); Santa Clara County
Planning Dept.'s "The housing situation: 1969, Santa Clara County" (1969)
Box 1, Folder 10
#1 Draft of Committee Report
Undated
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, data and notes
Box 1, Folder 11
#1 Draft of Committee Report
Undated
Scope and Content Note
Draft (n.d.) "For discussion only" (25 leaves, typescript with annotations)
Box 1, Folder 12
#2 Draft of Committee Report
1970 Apr 30
Scope and Content Note
Draft (30 April 1970) (21 leaves, xerographic and typescript, with annotations)
Box 1, Folder 13
#2 Draft of Committee Report
Undated
Scope and Content Note
Draft (n.d.) Second working copy? (25 leaves. Xerographic copy, with annotations)
Box 1, Folder 14
Final Report of the President's Ad Hoc Housing Advisory Committee
1970 May 12
Scope and Content Note
Professor Gordon Wright, chairman. 12 May 1970. (52 leaves. Xerographic copy. two copies.)
Box 1, Folder 15
Final Report of the President's Ad Hoc Housing Advisory Committee
1970 May 12
Scope and Content Note
Professor Gordon Wright, chairman. 12 May 1970. (75 leaves. Xerographic copy. With additional appendices.)
Box 1, Folder 16
Abramovitz, Moses (Professor of Economics at Stanford)
Undated
Scope and Content Note
Comments on the Final Report of the President's Ad Hoc Committee. n.d. (6 leaves. Xerographic copy. two copies)
Box 2, Folder 17
Correspondence
1970 Jun
Scope and Content Note
Includes - Petition signed by 56 residents in favor of low cost housing
Box 2, Folder 18
Correspondence
1970 Jul-Nov
Scope and Content Note
Includes - Palo Alto City Managers staff report on the problem of housing in Palo Alto, July 1970; KMC draft of statement
for the Palo Alto Council, July 1970; Yale University memo re: Yale's participation in community housing. (n.d.)
Box 2, Folder 19
Correspondence
1971
Scope and Content Note
Includes - Low/Moderate Income Housing Hearing, Stanford University, July 1971
Box 2, Folder 20
Correspondence
1972
Scope and Content Note
Re: Frenchman's Terrace. Includes - Palo Alto Dept of Planning staff report on pre-zoning of terrace area (first and revised
drafts, September 1972); Palo Alto Planning Commission environmental impact report.
Box 2, Folder 22
Palo Alto Planning Commission
1970 Jan 7-1972 Oct 4
Scope and Content Note
Minutes
Box 2, Folder 23
Mid Penninsula Citizens for Fair Housing
Undated
Scope and Content Note
Mailers
Box 2, Folder 29
Additional publications
1970
Scope and Content Note
Stanford University. Proposal to Department of Housing and Urban Development ... for criteria for industrially produced housing.
Technical proposal submitted by Stanford University, 1970. (137 p.); Grass Roots Writing Collective. The promised land: a
grass roots report on mid-Penninsula land use. Published by Grass Roots Writing Collective in cooperation with the Stanford
Chaparral. Palo Alto: 1970.