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Carla A. Hills, who was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under former President Gerald R. Ford, arrived at Harvard yesterday for a two-day stay as a visiting fellow of the Institute of Politics...
...meeting of about 100 people at Kirkland House last night Hills reiterated her earlier statements about the energy situation in the United States and discussed the role of HUD...
...Cabinet members, who engaged in a lively debate with the President last week. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano argued that un less the criticism of quotas was "softened," hundreds of affirmative-action programs under negotiation by his department would be jeopardized. The two blacks in the Cabinet were equally adamant. HUD Secretary Patricia Harris maintained that housing and job discrimination would be encouraged, and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young warned that the Administration's position on Bakke would never be forgotten by blacks. Carter reportedly maintained that he was inclined to give the edge to affirmative action wherever possible...
Financing innovations hold promise of helping middle-income people to afford better housing. HUD is backing a bill to authorize "graduated-payment mortgages" for FHA-insured loans. These would set low monthly payments during the first five years, which would rise thereafter, when the householder presumably would have a higher income. Some lenders are experimenting with such mortgages on their own; federal blessing would give these tests a needed boost...
...HUD officials are considering a much more basic attack on some of the regulatory snarls in which housing is enmeshed. Secretary Harris talks of reforming some of HUD'S own rules, which she calls "small regulatory requirements that can consume days?during which builders cannot build but during which their interest costs must nevertheless be paid." She also sees no reason why both HUD and one or sometimes several state or local jurisdictions must at times make separate studies to determine whether environmental rules are being met. Asks Harris: "Why can't we accept their studies or they accept ours...