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Ann Arbor, Michigan, civic activist involved with housing and civil rights issues and organizations. Subject files relating to her work with the Ann Arbor Citizens Committee for Fair Housing Legislation and its successor organization, the Ann Arbor Committee for Housing Legislation; also files relating to the Ann Arbor Housing Commission, the Ann Arbor Human Relations Commission, and the Off-Campus Housing Bureau of the University of Michigan Office of Student Community Relations.

The Norma F. Kraker Collection consists of five series relating to her many public responsibilities. The series in the collection include: Ann Arbor Committee for Fair Housing Legislation; Ann Arbor Housing Commission; Ann Arbor Human Relations Commission; Model Cities Program; and the University of Michigan, Office of Off-Campus Housing.

Records, 1961-1971, of the Office of Student Community Relations of the University of Michigan, organization within the Office of Student Affairs; contain files largely relating to university regulations respecting student use of automobiles and bicycles, student housing, and other student concerns. Also contains earlier material inherited from other university offices.

The records include regulations regarding student automobiles and resulting parking and traffic problems (1922-1968), planning and regulation of bicycles and motorcycles, housing inspection, and other matters of student concern. The minutes of the University Council, composed of faculty members and students, containing emergency guidelines developed in 1970/1971 for dealing with campus unrest are included, as are a student credit union survey (1969), a health service study (1968-1969), and studies of university bookstores and campus recreation.

Assistant director of men and director of housing at the University of Michigan. Collected materials largely relating to student housing at the University of Michigan; also files on student activities, including problems of transportation.

The Peter A. Ostafin Papers consist of both personal and official (University of Michigan) records that reflect his professional career in housing at the University of Michigan from 1955 to 1977. The records cover a range of subjects that include housing developments at the university, transportation issues, student governance, a variety of student activities, and administrative activities and issues. Materials found include minutes, reports, proposals, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and a variety of background and source documents relating to housing, transportation, and student affairs. The original order of the collection consisted of topical folders and loose documents in a random order. Scattered throughout the collection are documents created by and for both John Feldkamp, director of Housing, and Barbara Newell, vice-president for Student Affairs. Outside the strengths of the collection, much of the remaining material is scattered throughout the topical files and is of limited importance. Included are materials that mostly serve to illustrate sources consulted by the various groups on which Ostafin served. These reference materials form the majority of the early records, some dating back to the early 1940s.

Although the papers touch on many aspects of both students' lives and housing, the strength of the collection lies particularly in several specific areas: Housing (including both University and non-University), Student Activities, Transportation, and the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments.

Publications produced by the Housing Division and its subunits, includes miscellaneous annual reports, brochures, bulletins, calendars, directories, manuals, newsletters, programs, reports, schedules, and statistics of the Housing Division and its predecessors, the Housing Office, Office of Student Community Relations, Office of the Director of Residence Halls, and Office of University Housing. Also includes printed materials from Department of Residence Education, Family Housing, Food Service, Housing Conference Services, Housing Facilities Department, Off-Campus Housing Program, the Pilot Program/College Community Program, and Residence Halls Libraries, and Housing Special Programs.

The Housing Division Publications (10 linear feet) include annual reports, brochures, bulletins, directories, ephemera (including flyers, invitations, posters, and programs), a history, manuals, newsletters, proceedings of conferences sponsored by the Housing Division, and reports. These publications are divided into three series: Unit Publications, Sub-Unit Publications, and Topical Publications. The Housing Division publications document the broad responsibilities of this office and its sub-units, including the various housing options, such as family housing, off-campus housing, and residence halls; as well as food and dining services, mediation services, Residence Halls Association, Residence Halls Libraries, and various university housing task forces. Publications of individual residence halls are part of the sub-unit series.