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...Joneses' entree into home ownership and the rebirth of Junius Street are the work of the Nehemiah Project, the largest of the community-based private housing groups that are springing up around the country to answer the enormous need for low-cost shelter. From Boston and Chicago to San Francisco, nonprofit development corporations, civic-minded church groups, foundations and companies have stepped into the vacuum left by the Federal Government's withdrawal from large-scale public housing construction...
After raising some $8 million and mapping out a detailed plan for low-cost construction, Nehemiah's sponsors went looking for additional help from city hall. When New York Mayor Ed Koch pleaded poverty, the group won the day by pointing to the support that the project had already garnered. Recalls Roman Catholic Bishop Francis Mugavero: "I said to the mayor, 'I would suggest that you steal the money, and I will absolve you.' " Laughing, Koch finally responded...
...reason that Killington is so popular among singles and college students has a lot to do with its extensive nightlife. The ski area is only minutes away from Rutland, Vermont's second largest city, and that puts several low-cost eating and lodging facilities within easy reach of budget-conscious skiers...
...increased sex education and endorsed the use of condoms. Last week a commission at the Academy chaired by Daniel D. Federman '49, dean for students and alumni at Harvard Medical School, released a two-year study again calling for "aggressive public education" on sexuality and the free or low-cost distribution of contraceptives. The first report concerns AIDS, the second, adolescent pregnancy...
During the last term, for example, the council passed a ban on nerve gas testing in Cambridge, made the city a sanctuary for Central American refugees, a preliminary smoking ordinance, and attempted to make commercial developers finance low-cost housing in the city...