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...amount of crime committed inside (TIME, Nov. 6). It also suggests a solution in its title: Defensible Space (Macmillan; $8.95). The author: Oscar Newman, 37, a tall, bushy-bearded architect, director of New York University's Institute of Planning and Housing. His guidelines are being adopted by HUD, the New York State Urban Development Corp., and city housing authorities in Chicago, Philadelphia and Minneapolis. In an interview with TIME, Newman explained his theories...
Stephen S.J. Hall, vice-president for Administration, said last week that a major obstacle involved getting approval from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which is contributing interest subsidy to the $1 million reconstruction. Hall, former director of operations for ITT. Sheraton Corporation, said the renovation was "my toughest problem in 13 years of dealing with construction projects" because of the pressing time schedule...
...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...
Those who cannot look forward to moving back in before winter, loan or no loan, sit and wait for the trailers from HUD; arrows on large, hand-painted signs show the HUD drivers where the trailers should be placed-if and when they come. The arrival of the trailer often marks the start of another long, frustrating wait. Harry and Gladys Nusbaum spent 16 days in their trailer with no water, sewage, heat, electricity. Last week the water, sewage and electricity were hooked up, but there is still no heat. Harry, who drove his own bakery truck, no longer...