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...when HUD auditors did a spot check, they found one repairman catnapping and another washing his car. The price of such neglect is staggering. When the public housing program began in 1937, it was envisioned as a pay-as-you-go system...
...required to pay have gradually forced Washington to underwrite more than half of the operating budgets in many cities. Operating subsidies for the nation's 1.2 million public housing units have ballooned from $28 million in 1970 to $1.2 billion in 1983. Overall in fiscal 1984 HUD will spend a whopping $4.4 billion on building, maintaining and repairing public housing. In Detroit nearly 25% of the city's 10,271 public housing units are vacant. Herman Gardens once housed nearly 10,000 people...
Since taking office, the Administration has virtually eliminated HUD's function as a builder of low-cost housing, choosing instead to spend $5.8 billion on modernizing existing units. Reagan has proposed a private-sector substitute: a housing voucher program, whereby poor families could shop for housing in the private rental market with federally subsidized cash vouchers. The Administration argues that the program will save the Government money and give people more control over their choice of dwellings. Critics charge, however, that the supply of private, low-cost housing is too small, and the opportunities for landlord price gouging...
...restored Cybill Shepherd) looks ready to make trouble with every male on the show. The first episode gives hints of money wrangles and byzantine plot twists, but The Yellow Rose could be more than a prairiefied Dallas. NBC says the series is "in the tradition of Giant and Hud, "and it is. It is also in the Saturday-night graveyard slot, so it will have to corral an audience quickly. The Yellow Rose deserves a shot: this lowdown hoedown is the fall's juiciest new show. -By Richard Corliss
DIVORCED. Patricia Neal, 57, Oscar-winning actress (Hud, 1963), and Roald Dahl, 66, British author of macabre short stories (Switch Bitch) and wry children's tales (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory); after 30 years of marriage, five children; in London. Dahl's affair with one of his wife's friends devastated a marriage that had survived much tragedy: a traffic accident that caused brain damage to their son, the death of a seven-year-old daughter from measles, and three nearly fatal strokes that partly paralyzed Neal during her fifth pregnancy...