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...extraordinary education in public affairs: more than a decade at the heart of American politics and power, tutored by a President and by some of the grimmest personal experiences in the nation's history. He has located some central issues ?civil and constitutional rights, health care, war, housing???and approached them with an uncomplicated and often effective passion. Of course, he is not unique in that...
...attempt to close that gap is part technological, part financial, part political. In big cities, building-trades unions have long been a major obstacle to fully industrialized housing???buildings with huge parts preassembled in a factory instead of handcrafted at the site from myriad bits and pieces. That money-saving process increases the employment of industrial workers but reduces the need for highly paid (up to $7.30 an hour) building craftsmen at the site. When Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley started flexing his political muscles, however, the unions agreed not only to erect factory-fabricated units, which had long been...
...city of 100,000 people," he said, pointing. "At the heart of it will be a thousand-acre campus for a university with 27,500 students. There'll be a university town with a mile or so of hotels, shops, restaurants and theaters. We'll have different kinds of housing???all income levels?churches, a couple of golf courses. Surrounding the university town will be many other communities, here, there and along the coast. And over there will be jobs?places for men to work. We expect to have about 300,000 people living and working here by 1980. There...
...notorious that the U. S., most precocious child of the Industrial Revolution, is a laggard in Housing???the business of furnishing cheap and comfortable shelter. Less than half the homes in the U. S. measure up to minimum standards of decency. Surveying U. S. housing in five articles (Feb.-July), FORTUNE laid the blame upon: "The inefficiency and disorder of its management, the dependence upon speculative real-estate dealers which hampers it in its purchases of land, the costliness of its methods, the exorbitant rates of its financing, the obstructive tactics of its labor, the complication and stupidity...
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