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...Cockney housewives grimace at pungent cooking odors wafting from Indian kitchens, and early-to-bed British workingmen complain of being kept awake all night by twanging West Indian music. Since immigrant shopkeepers are willing to keep longer hours, white merchants resent the competition. More seriously, the immigrants vie for low-cost housing, which is scarce in Britain. Unwelcome in many localities, the new minority groups cluster together and overcrowd their neighborhoods, forcing out white families. Since most immigrants are raising families themselves, they overburden the schools, maternity hospitals and welfare clinics in areas where they have congregated...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare will allot Title II moneys only for educational facilities, perhaps Harvard should, upon receiving a grant, make available from its endowment an equal amount: for use in the establishment of better school facilities for Boston ghetto dwellers; applied toward good low-cost housing in Cambridge; or perhaps committed to community rent-control projects...
...Chicago project symbolizes today's expanding effort by both government and private enterprise to reach the long-elusive goal of providing good low-cost dwellings for the nation's poor and near poor. Over the past three decades, Washington has poured some $6.5 billion into housing subsidies and urban renewal, committed at least another $13 billion as yet unspent to the same controversial programs. Yet one recent White House report estimated that 8,300,000 Americans still cannot afford a decent place to live...
...Borg-Warner has devised a bathroom-kitch-en module for use in slum rehabilitation. Both United States Gypsum and National Gypsum Co. have experimented with rehabilitation, and U.S.G. branched out earlier this year by investing $1,000,000 in a Memphis firm that aims to build large projects of low-cost new homes...
...severe shortage of carpenters, plumbers, electricians and bricklayers has led to soaring wage rates in many cities. All kinds of external pressures, from big-lot zoning to archaic building codes (which are often kept restrictive by local labor and political pressures), are making it increasingly difficult to erect low-cost housing...