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...federal court in Buffalo ruled three weeks ago that the city of Lackawanna, N.Y., had practiced discrimination in refusing to allow 138 low-cost housing units to be built in a nearly all-white neighborhood. Blacks were expected to occupy most of the homes. Lackawanna officials withheld the approval that would have permitted construction and rezoned the area for park and recreational purposes. Attorneys for the city contended that the project would have overlooked Lackawanna's sewer system. "Mere rationalization," said U.S. District Judge John T. Curtin...
...postinaugural period, the President talked enthusiastically of offering tax incentives to encourage business to combat social problems. That idea has been quietly shelved as too costly and possibly unworkable, and no new idea has taken its place. The Government does have a plethora of programs and subsidies to stimulate low-cost housing, black capitalism, job training and pollution control. But many of the programs are tangled in overlapping bureaucracies, and there is no central office to tell the well-intentioned businessman just what aid is available and how to get it. The Administration could make a great contribution by taking...
...projects. A subsidiary had built low-rent town houses in the Detroit ghetto and downtown apartments for the elderly and planned three more projects in other Michigan cities. The SEC acknowledged the "meritorious" nature of the program, but contended that it was the sort of outside activity forbidden by the Public Utility Holding Company Act. The Detroit News acidly pointed out that the act was supposed to prevent utility holding companies from using their clout to compete unfairly in nonutility businesses, and that Michigan Consolidated had little if any competition in building low-cost housing...
Nickerson then chatted with several of the group and discussed the University's housing program with them. "We realize that in the Riverside area you have to take stronger impact of Harvard expansion than the rest of the community. We don't have any firm deals" for low-cost housing in Riverside, he said, "but we do have some possibilities...
Instead, Harvard is seeking to build between 90 and 100 low-cost units elsewhere in Riverside, and will construct them "just as soon as possible," Nickerson announced. The University has already committed itself to 94 such units for elderly people there, he said...