Word: hud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply got out of hand in many instances. Says a White House aide: "We just have to look at some of these things and ask ourselves: 'What are we buying? What's the real effect?' " The ax is poised over three departments in particular: Health, Education and Welfare, HUD and Labor. They will spend $214.3 billion in fiscal 1979, or about 44% of the current $491.6 billion federal budget. Their spending, moreover, has increased in the past few years. Outlays for what is defined as "education, training, employment and social services" have jumped from $21 billion in fiscal...
...Detroit city council in the early 1970s by taking on the federal bureaucracy?and winning. He did so by deciding to tear down thousands of abandoned houses that had been taken over by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and had become breeding grounds for crime. When HUD's lethargic officials threatened to prosecute Levin and Mayor Coleman Young, the two city officials ordered the housing razed anyway?and HUD did nothing. Challenging Republican Senator Robert Griffin this year, Democrat Levin again campaigned against overgrown government. Yet he never recanted his basically liberal philosophy, bridging the gap by claiming...
Clark's story is a hybrid of The Rainmaker and the collected works of Larry McMurtry (Hud. The Last Picture Show). He tells of two antagonistic small-time ranchers, a tomboy spinster (Fonda) and a good-natured World War II veteran (Caan), who reluctantly pool their resources to battle a takeover by an expansionist landowner (Robards). The villain, meanwhile, has problems of his own-an oil-company executive (George Grizzard) wants to plunder the cattle fields for crude. It is not difficult to guess what follows. Like every other so-called modern western, this one features a trusty...
...were built in the wrong place at the wrong time. Newfields (near Dayton) and Riverton and Gananda (outside Rochester) were begun when the nearby metropolitan areas were losing jobs. Other towns like Flower Mound were located outside the path of growth of their cities. As a result, all the HUD new towns have experienced slower-than-expected growth. Flower Mound has attracted only 420 residents in six years, out of a projected eventual population of 61,141. Gananda was a ghost town until a developer took over last year. Besides that, a number of the ventures were built by energy...
Despite all these problems, the new town concept is not dead. Several privately financed new communities-notably Columbia, Md., Reston, Va., and Irvine, Calif.-are profitable and growing. Even HUD does not label its program a total failure. The agency will try to sell off or transfer financing of seven of the 13 federally backed towns and dissolve the corporation that oversees the project, but it will continue to spend money on the six other communities that HUD planners think might survive. Besides, a 1976 National Science Foundation study of 17 new towns, HUD-backed and otherwise, shows that most...