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...principal instrument of opposition to Stokes has become the city council. The issue that solidified the division was public housing. Stokes is a strong proponent of public housing (his family lived in a low-income project when he was young), and his belief that such developments should be dispersed throughout the city has divided even the black community. When Stokes announced plans for a low-cost housing project in Lee-Seville, a middle-class black neighborhood, the council blocked Stokes' proposals. An attempt to put public housing into the white, blue-collar west side was similarly blocked...
...project was attacked during the 1969 University Hall occupation when students discovered the new hospital would eliminate 182 low-cost housing units while not providing for sufficient relocation...
...Bucky's Bubble in Montreal and scores of other geodesic domes stand as monuments to Mr. Fuller's well-rounded genius [March 1]. However, I cannot accept the proposal that "dome-iciles" are the answer to the global need for low-cost housing. When a designer cannot economically achieve warmth, friendliness and informality with square walls, I hardly think it appropriate to blame the walls. Your photographs illustrate how cold and uninviting a dome can be on the interior and how the exterior can be made to resemble a piece of discarded orange peel...
Scheer and Bell attacked the capitalist system for "breeding racism and poverty." Bell, a machine operator and Vietnam war veteran, stated, "The reason we don't have low-cost housing in Cambridge is because it's not profitable. Capitalists only invest in things that are profitable, like...
...women responded to Cox in a press conference held last night. They stated that they had "set two conditions for leaving this building: that space and money be provided for a women's center and that Harvard University build low-cost housing for the Riverside community on this, the Treeland site...