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...Congress predictably did nothing, and Harry Truman, without major money or major support, set out on a whistle-stop campaign across the country. He lambasted Congress for the higher cost of living, for blocking low-rent housing, for failing to vote grain-storage bins. "Give 'em hell, Harry!" the crowds cried. The Democratic left had deserted to the third-party candidate, Henry Wallace, the South to Strom Thurmond's States' Rights party. Republican Candidate Thomas E. Dewey was calm, self-confident, and spent much of his time discussing his future Cabinet. Not until midmorning...
...their income is below prescribed levels, argue that they are being segregated from the rest of society. Worst of all, inflation has so increased the cost of operating buildings that many housing officials are beginning to wonder if they can any longer meet their mandate to provide decent low-rent shelter...
American cities more than most others suffer from the good intentions of urban planners. A case in point is the swing to highrise, low-rent housing projects in the 1950s. Built to literally lift the poor above the grime of slums, they instead deteriorated into vertical slums that now contribute so much to the congestion, isolation and ugliness of U.S. cities that urban planners often must wish that they could just knock them down and start over from scratch. St. Louis will soon do just that...
Last week St. Louis' city planners got an official O.K. for their proposal to demolish two eleven-story units in Pruitt-lgoe, a mammoth low-rent black housing project located a few blocks from St. Louis' downtown section. Eventually the wrecker's ball will level most of the 31 other buildings...
...demanding only that state laws have some rational purpose, the Burger Court has stunted the Warren Court's expansive development of the equal-protection clause. Thus it upheld a California law that requires low-rent housing to be approved by a community referendum before it can be built. No other housing is subjected to such a requirement, and blacks especially will be hurt by the ruling. But the court chose to extoll the virtues of democratic referendums and found that California's "seemingly neutral" law had no discriminatory intent. Last week the court further ruled that states...