Word: hud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...families still left homeless in the Wyoming Valley, only 7,100 have been housed by HUD. Some remain camped in the evacuation center an hour out of town. Others are living in the partially damaged second floors of their houses, without water or electricity. Most are still with friends or relatives in quarters so cramped that they are fast breeding enemies. The elderly were the hardest hit. Almost a third of those affected were over 55. Many are living in hotel rooms until HUD can move them into mobile homes or new apartment buildings that have been designed for them...
...HUD is now delivering 120 new trailers a day, and is still far behind the demand. But the majority of Wilkes-Barre citizens hope one day to repair or rebuild their own houses. Many Wyoming Valley residents are of Polish and Slovak stock. Their hearts are in their homes; to possess a home is to possess everything. And they are the core of the movement to bring the valley back...
...study, which may be used to formulate national policy, is being financed by a $360,000 grant from the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD...
Romney defended the FHA for its willingness to insure home mortgages in high-risk areas when private lenders had long refused to do so. "Our department has made mistakes," Romney said, "but we will not abandon the central city as so many have done." HUD, he insisted, will "not abandon even a single house-we either rehabilitate and sell it, or we demolish...
...with only "a black minority held back from entrance into broader society, not only by racial prejudice and economic classism, but by the growing fear stereotype that unfairly labels them with social menace." None of that, said Romney, can be dealt with "by hiding behind scapegoats -whether Secretary Romney, HUD, the Nixon Administration or any other available target...