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...Chicago Architect Lawrence J. Harrison, who is building his own dome home. "The dome is the greatest thing since the tent," he says. "It's cheap, efficient, simple to put together and is the most economic way of covering space. This is not just the answer to low-cost housing. This is the answer to low-cost, cooperative, self-built housing...
...nationality or circumstance and to treat them with exceptional deference. The Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, headed by Russian-born Nathan Peled, spends nearly $300 million a year, more than any department except defense. Arriving immigrants are met by social workers, lodged in apartments secured by the ministry, offered low-cost loans and allowed tax exemptions. So generous are benefits that arriving Soviet army veterans resume the pensions they lost when they left the Soviet Union...
Faced with a desperate shortage of low-cost housing, New York City in 1965 began locating homeless families on welfare "temporarily" in hotels. What started as an emergency measure has burgeoned into a monstrous problem, a squalid way of life. Since January, 1969, the number of welfare families housed in hotels throughout the city -many for periods of one year or longer -has risen from 262 to close to 1,120, and their numbers are increasing at a rate of 10% a month. TIME Correspondents William Friedman and Robert Anson visited a number of such hotels in the city...
...five years ago, the average family's stay before moving on to permanent quarters was 4½ days. Then came urban renewal, which in the past three years succeeded admirably in clearing large tracts of slum dwellings (45,000 units in 1969 alone) but failed woefully to put low-cost housing in their place...
...charged with the task of inspecting the hotels regularly, looks the other way. Welfare has asked the department to shutter two hotels in the past three years, for example, but both are still very much in business. Also, city housing officials have traditionally discriminated against welfare families applying for low-cost housing...