Word: hud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brigham said that the exact cost of the proposed projects was not yet certain, although HUD has already earmarked $870,000 to pay for any programs in the area not covered by other Federal funding. Since the Model Cities program tries to funnel Federal money from diverse agencies into one area, the ultimate cost of the first year program--if Washington gives Cambridge all the money it wants--will probably be several times the $870,000 figure, Brigham said...
...attitude of the present administration has been very favorable toward the kind of program we're trying to run here in Cambridge," Brigham said. He said that Cambridge was "trying to get some review of our program before all the present administrators have left Washington," to create an HUD commitment to finance the Cambridge program...
...since Reconstruction, was a Nixon favorite to take over the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but last week Brooke refused the job. Besides feeling some restiveness about Nixon's approach to minority problems during the campaign, Brooke cherishes his independence in the Senate. A new possibility for HUD may now be Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat...
California's Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch was a good bet to become overseer of Nixon's entire domestic program, possibly as Secretary of HEW or HUD. Campaign Manager John Mitchell is a fair guess to become Attorney General. The Nixon camp leaked the word that G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss, 60, will probably be sacked. Nixon believes that the Republicans need a more activist, youthful image, but the move will cause bitter feelings among party regulars...
From Cities to Farms. Much of the current push comes from the 1968 Housing and Urban Development Act, which HUD Secretary Robert C. Weaver calls "a new and major national commitment to the problems of cities." The act gives the nation the optimistic goal of building 26 million housing units in ten years, as against the 14 million actually built in the past decade...