Word: program
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POINTING A FINGER of responsibility at the Federal and State governments, however, does not excuse us from using the tools we now have. The programs administered by the Cambridge Housing Authority are the means by which the public sector can most directly prove that it has answers to the problem, and we have fallen intolerably short of providing that proof. As of today, we have used only about 200 of the 1500 new units allocated to the Authority by the Federal Government. The Modernization Program for Public Housing, approved only this month, took seven full months to make...
First, we must have the remaining 270 units, allocate to the Authority under the short-team lease program, under lease and occupied no later than the end of the summer. If additional units will be available which cannot be put under lease until after that time, the Authority should make application quickly for additional Federal authorizations. Allocations for another program, which allows leases up to 40 years to be made by the Authority, will be sought concurrently...
...totally successful in revitalizing our public housing program, only part of the job will be done. The two universities which have done so much to make Cambridge what it is--both good and bad--have a special responsibility. It is futile to argue much longer about how much or which parts of the pressures on the housing market are generated by students, faculty, staff and spin-off activities traceable to Harvard and MIT. The point is not whether the response of the universities will be proportional to the degree to which they are responsible for the problem. The question...
...many others. But that need not be the case. Urban renewal provides a critical element in the process of providing more reasonably priced housing--it reduces the cost of assembling and preparing property for redevelopment or rehabilitation. There are new, more flexible renewal procedures such as Neighborhood Development Program and the advance availability of rehabilitation funds for future renewal or code enforcement areas...
...International Seminar (originated by presidential aide Henry Kissinger, when he was a Harvard government professor). Under this program, about 30 foreign officials, scholars, labor leaders etc--whom Kissinger described as "standing on the threshold of national prominence"--study at Harvard during the summer...