Word: hud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practice in emergencies, though, OEP quickly showed the strain of its first days on the new job. Manpower was urgently needed, and was borrowed haphazardly from other Government agencies. Highly paid federal economists, HUD officials and even agriculture experts found themselves answering phones in regional offices. Nevertheless, OEP could not cope with the flood of queries. In the Washington headquarters a block from the White House, confusion was compounded as cameramen tangled lines with telephone installers...
...suit was well timed; it was announced 24 hours before George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, arrived to testify before Father Hesburgh's commission. Under considerable fire from Hesburgh, who admits to skepticism about the Administration's zeal, Romney maintained that it would be HUD's policy to grant housing funds only to communities that are willing to accept housing projects for the poor. The Federal Government, however, will not force low-income housing on anyone. As one Administration official put it: "We're not swinging a big stick. We're just saying...
...uniform procedures to assure the construction of low-income housing in the suburbs and urging federal intervention in a zoning suit against Black Jack, Mo. (TIME, April 26). Mitchell, on the other hand, argued that the courts did not require such vigorous programs from federal agencies. His summation of HUD's responsibilities: "All HUD is is a lending agency...
...Other Eye. The problem at HUD reflects the Nixon Administration's indecision on housing policy, which has provided some embarrassing moments for Secretary George Romney. He has seen his position supporting low-income housing in the suburbs publicly undermined by the President...
...commissioners summed up the shift: "It may mark the beginning of the Federal Government's withdrawal from active participation in the effort to eliminate residential segregation." Although the Civil Rights Commission gave guarded approval to some Administration actions in recent months, the criticism of HUD made it clear that the dinosaur ought to open the other eye as well...