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Much of the Rockwellian ambience is deceptive, however. The downtown mall area contains the local headquarters of the Office of Economic Opportunity's neighborhood action program, which is pressing for low-cost housing over old-line opposition. On the 1st and 15th of every month, long sad queues of weary mothers and scraggly children stand on the street all day to collect food stamps. The young are displaced persons in El Monte. "There is nothing to do here," says good-looking Tina Chassi, 25. "If I go out on a date, we go out of town...
Give the women full use of the Memorial Drive Building until it is torn down to build low-cost housing...
Henry Ford II was jetting around Asia last week with a new and better idea. The chairman of Ford Motor Co. proposed to the leaders of Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan a plan for joint production of a low-cost auto. It would have a 30-h.p. engine, be available in about two years and sell for $800 to $1,000. The car could be called a modern Model T, an updated and streamlined car-for-Everyman, reminiscent-in concept at least-of the original, which Henry Ford I built 15.5 million times over between...
During the afternoon meeting, Saundra Graham, president of the Riverside Planning team, and other residents of the neighboring Riverside community joined the women. They have been fighting Harvard for low-cost housing over the past two years. Those at the meeting allied themselves with the Riverside demand, and women in the community offered their active support for the women's center...
Class Struggle. Richard Slater, an engineer and expert on low-cost housing for the Federal Government, doubts that the dome will ever become the favorite form of housing for the masses. "Lowincome families," he says, "usually aspire to the split-level ranch-style homes that higher-income families have. As long as the dome has the reputation of a low-cost home, no one will want to live...