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...Haar, a noted expert on inner city revitalization and a former presidential task force officer, supported the new law and urged Congress to include deregulation of local building and municipal codes to encourage businesses to move to the country's most debilitated urban areas...
...only answer that can realistically be expected from Congress this year addressing the emergency needs of the jobless and homeless...caught in the pattern of decay of devastated inner cities," Haar testified...
...While Haar said he did not think the act was the perfect solution to the plight of the inner city, he did think it was important to pass the bill since it was the best solution that had been proposed thus...
...support the bill because we have to take what we can get," Haar said. "Let's establish the initial EZ Improvement Act and hope to build on it and target the cities with the most need in the very near future...
Citing the fated Model Cities Program under the Reagan Administration, Haar warned against spreading scarce resources too thin. He also advised the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has until 1991 to decide where to create the EZs, to target those cities whose needs are most pressing...