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...HUD stares, Chicago blinks
...crime-ridden Cabrini-Green public housing project, "it has been turned around. It's not perfect, but it's better." But Her Honor's moment of glory was clouded. Since January she and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development had been feuding over a HUD audit suggesting that the Chicago Housing Authority, the nation's second largest, with 142,000 tenants in 46,000 units, was among the worst managed. "It is almost as if the CHA exists for a purpose other than the management and maintenance of good quality public housing," the report...
...unit per month, vs. $4 in New York) despite receiving more generous federal subsidies ($131 vs. $112). The study found that costs for heating, elevator repairs and garbage disposal were excessive, and that $50 million in modernization funds was sitting in local bank accounts earning low interest. HUD Under Secretary Donald Hovde demanded the resignation of all five CHA commissioners, including the chairman, powerful Realtor Charles Swibel, one of the mayor's closest allies. Swibel, 55, was appointed to the board in 1956 by Mayor Richard Daley. Chicago Political Analyst Don Rose describes...
When Byrne did not act, HUD froze $14.5 million in subsidies. The mayor retaliated by taking out $35,000 worth of newspaper ads describing HUD's charges as a smokescreen for "inadequate funding for public housing." Swibel held firm, refusing to resign at a raucous CHA meeting early last week. "I'm staying because I've done nothing wrong," he insisted shortly before being hospitalized with an apparent ulcer attack...
...Midwestern city (pop. 76,000) is a near disaster area. HUD recently declared it one of the most economically depressed areas in the nation. It is a one-industry town, and that industry is the ailing auto business. Unemployment has escalated to a Great Depression level of 23.9%, almost triple the national average. Into this municipal battleground for survival, old XVI, with its estimated 70,000 out-of-town visitors, its press personnel and its attendant show-business acts, arrives like a relief column of well-off cavalry. Some experts claim that the event may pump as much...