Word: projections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After resigning her post in July, Horner plans to work on a two-year project beginning with a series of conferences addressing women's issues. Her successor has not yet been chosen, but over 300 men and women have applied...
...those problems, the agency faces a new lawsuit from the National Housing Law Project, a California-based public interest law firm. The group contends that under a 1987 law, HUD is required to survey its inventory to see if some of the empty houses could be used to provide shelter for the homeless...
Last year, Newsweek published a cover story titled "Brothers," which chronicled the reunion of 12 black men who grew up together in the Robert Taylor Homes. In 1962, when it opened, the housing project was a highly-touted social experiment, and a real opportunity for low-income Black families--a way out of the slums and tenements controlled by greedy white landlords. Brothers is the expanded, book-length account of the lives of these 12 men, and tells their compelling stories with a depth that was missing in the otherwise excellent article...
...first glimpse into the Robert Taylor Homes, and what life there can do to people. This book shows how utterly degrading publicly sanctioned slum living is. The steel mesh fencing that encloses the balconies of each building to prevent people from falling symbolizes the hopelessness that pervades the project. There's a great view of the city skyline, but through the bars of a cage it seems very far away...
...That arrangement, if it could work, is even less prone to problems than the Medical School project," Martin said...