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Alinsky's current, and curiously oldfashioned, theory is that the federal war on poverty is being used "to suffocate militant leadership that might threaten the Establishment." Such leadership among the poor themselves, says Alinsky, is their only real solution, and he incites it, as he acknowledges, by "rubbing raw...
Short Shrift. Urban needs have historically been given short shrift in state capitals and in Washington, largely because legislators are elected from districts based on the farm-heavy population ratios of 40 years ago. Reapportionment of state and congressional election districts has already begun to help balance the scales for...
Weaver as HHFA head, is to rehabilitate existing inner-city homes instead of building anew, using federal money to buy property outright or to subsidize landlords' improvements. One outstanding example is New Haven's Wooster Square, where more than 1,000 rundown buildings were spruced up and the...
As HHFA Director, Weaver followed an essentially inner-city-directed policy rather than attempting to deal with the metropolis as an entity. That approach has attracted criticism. Argues Harvard Business School Economist Raymond Vernon: "To talk about rebuild ing central cities for re-use by people there now is a...
The experiment is still too new for hard statistics of success or failure. But it is being watched with growing interest in practically every metropolis north of the Mason-Dixon line, and in Washington with such hope that its administrator has the honor of being the only school superintendent on...