Word: hud
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Married. Mitt Romney, 22, youngest son of the HUD Secretary and a sophomore at Brigham Young University; and Ann Davies, 19, daughter of a Detroit industrialist and a Mormon convert; in Salt Lake City...
...stopgap. Testifying at a Senate hearing, Romney last week warned that spiraling lumber prices jeopardize the goal of raising residential construction to 2,600,000 units a year under the Housing Act of 1968. The former auto executive and Michigan Governor criticized Democrat Robert Weaver, his predecessor at HUD, for failing to develop programs to meet that objective. Complained Romney: "I have inherited a department that is essentially in the same condition as American Motors when I took over. It was losing money. Our department is losing ground...
Under the new-communities clause of the 1968 Housing Act, the Department of Housing and Urban Development can guarantee $250 million in loans for land acquisition and development to those builders whose newtown plans meet standards prescribed by HUD. The department has already received 17 formal applications and has tentatively committed $30 million to Park Forest South, 28 miles south of Chicago. If the U.S. is to build similar new towns on a large scale, however, HUD officials think that broader legislation and a vastly larger federal role will be necessary...
...will be Chief of Protocol, and Nixon's longtime personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods. Also in northwest Washington will be the Romneys, at the Shoreham West apartments. George Romney's office is too close to permit his customary four-mile morning jog, but the new Secretary of HUD will probably lope off to work through Rock Creek Park as his chauffeur delivers lunch-a meat sandwich, a salad, a thermos of milk-to his desk...
...HUD has already reserved $870,000 for the use of the Cambridge CDA if the program is acceptable to Washington. The total cost of the first-year program will probably rise to several times that figure when grants under other federal programs tied to Model Cities are included...