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WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton Thursday issued orders to Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros to enforce the "one strike, you're out" order which would evict drug users, dealers or other violent criminals out of public housing units after one conviction. Calling the measure "hardball", Clinton said conditions in public housing were...
Buffalo is hardly unique in this respect. In suburbs across the U.S., "there is a tendency to want to form separate localities so you can regulate who lives there and who shops there," says Margaret Weir, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "Communities can't do it by racial...
Former Interior Secretary James Watt pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to influence a federal grand jury that investigated 1980s influence-peddling at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He could serve as many as six months in jail pand pay a $5,000 fine. Watt previously had denied charges...
Critical for blacks and whites alike. "I think this may have been the largest family-values rally in the history of America," says Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League. "The proof will be whether it translates into action back home.'' The action will have to be smart and...
Rather than trying to play such an intricate role in development, Cisneros said, the government should "act as a catalyst" for housing development and then step back