Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon Administration's main plan for helping housing is to stop inflation. Unless that is done, construction, and especially land costs will continue to rise, and mortgage money will become still scarcer and costlier. The result could be a housing famine that no politically conceivable amount of public subsidy could alleviate...
...expects localities to combine their building plans into giant orders so that industry can justify capital outlays for factory-produced housing. To induce municipal officials to get together, he can offer them favorable treatments on their bids for other HUD grants, notably for renewal, planning, sewers and public housing...
...fundamental reforms are likely to occur unless the public really demands them. The status quo is defended by many powerful forces -some unions, bureaucrats, local-government officials, even by elements of the fragmented housing industry itself. Until now, the existing scheme of things has been supported by public ignorance and apathy. Yet millions of people are being victimized-the mobile executive who cannot afford a comfortable house, the city resident in the greatly overpriced apartment, the slum dweller who has a tough time finding any housing that qualifies as decent. The lives of these people are indeed being shaped...
...science of economics has helped to subordinate economic to political power and has pretty well tamed the gods of the formerly chaotic marketplace. This power shift has left loose ends. Labor's coercive power to strike, for example, is no longer directed against private management but against the public; it is not always used legitimately or even legally, as in the New York transit strike of 1966. An extended dialogue (e.g., about compulsory arbitration) is required to reach a clearer idea system about the limits on economic power...
...nonetheless the explicit and longstanding policy of the Ticket Office, for the big games, to see that these seats be "utilized," either by assigning them to students or by selling them to the general public at $6 a throw...