Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayoralty race Lindsay, therefore, had at his disposal a hardcore of workers, experienced and able to move out into the other four boroughs to set up and manage a grassroots campaign. In each neighborhood vacant stores were rented to serve as local headquarters for volunteers, in most cases Democrats or independents. These storefronts were a new campaign concept developed by whizz-politico Price...
...City Hall cannot employ 20,000. Ideally, the mass of Democrats and independents who worked for Lindsay in '65, could be persuaded to change their registration. Price had a vision of dozens of Lindsay Republican Organizations mushrooming all over the city providing direct lines of communication between the neighborhood and City Hall. A resident could then walk into a neighborhood club and complain about the gaping pot-hole down the block or the broken traffic light. The complaint would immediately be funneled through to the responsible administrator, short-circuiting the normal bureaucratic process, and the pothole would be filled with...
There were, however, several hitches in this plan. Many volunteers were not ready to take the final plunge of registering as Republicans. So Price, developed an alternate scheme. Volunteers were encouraged to form CIA's (Civic Improvement Agencies). These were designed to operate much like the neighborhood Republican clubs, but without requiring members to work in partisan politics...
...Senate campaign-calls for the establishment by the Federal Government of a nationwide, nonprofit, private housing federation that would buy and rebuild slum dwellings, then sell them to low-income families on a unit-by-unit basis, thus giving the man in the slum a stake in his own neighborhood. Working from a base of a threeyear, $60 million Government outlay and $2 billion in federal debenture bonds, the plan would ultimately generate up to $1.3 billion in rehabilitated housing...
...attempt to drain much of the political clout from the Community Action program, ont of the most controversial components of the federal antipoverty package. In addition to financing local agencies like Action for Boston Community Development, Community Action funds have been used for community organizing among the poor -- building neighborhood associations that could effectively represent the demands of the poor and mobilize protest if the establishment refused to comply...