Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BOND: I would disperse public housing around the city so that low-income people would have a chance to live in decent neighborhoods with trees and grass and adequate playground facilities. I would urge the courts to be much more rigid in integrating the public school system. I would disperse...
The design will provide new exhibition space for the overcrowded American wing and the European collections. On the park side, the present hodgepodge façade of Romanesque, Venetian Gothic, bare brick and nondescript modern will be concealed behind windowless walls or veiled by vast expanses of glass. A final...
When Bruce's father discovered his habit, he sent him to live for a time with relatives in rural Virginia ("Even there I managed to get dope"). A year ago, Bruce's father brought him back to Harlem and placed him immediately in the Addicts Rehabilitation Center, an...
BLACK Americans pay more than whites for comparable housing, and are four times more likely to live in substandard housing. In black slums, housing density (3,071 units per sq. mi.) is almost double that of middle-class urban areas, and 100 times greater than in suburbs. The density helps...
The rate of black admissions to public mental institutions is twice that of white admissions. But in Psychiatry magazine, Joel Fischer, a social scientist at Berkeley, notes that the apparently higher rate of mental illness among blacks is a statistical misinterpretation, caused by the fact that "private treatment is often...