Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only after an unusually high-pressure vote-gathering drive in June did the Johnson Administration's rent-subsidy bill pass the House - and then only by a hairsbreadth 208-to-202 margin. When the bill, authorizing the Government to help lowincome, elderly and handi capped families pay their rent, cleared the Senate by a 54-to-30 vote July 15, it was a particularly prideful victory for Lyndon Johnson...
...soon. Last week, thanks to an incredible blunder by Housing and Home Finance Agency Administrator Robert Weaver, the pro gram was dead. Its demise was hastened by the curiosity of Michigan Republican James Harvey, 43, who found HHFA experts suspiciously reluctant to circulate the regulations covering financial eligibility for rent aid. Harvey demanded a copy and, as a member of the House's housing subcommittee, got one immediately. To his astonishment, Harvey found that under Weaver's HHFA-approved rules relating to the elderly and the handicapped (who could collect up to 70% of their rent from...
...members of the House have $25,000 in net assets," he gasped. "The regulations were clearly contrary to the bill as passed by Congress." Since the House had yet to appropriate funds for the program, Harvey moved to cut off all $6,000,000 earmarked for rent subsidies. "The Congress of the United States has decided that this was going to be a program for low-income people of America," he declared. "They have made this program one for the rich people of America...
Just for good measure. Vellucci continued, he plans to rent a hearse paint on it "We're headed for New Haven to to bury Yale," and parade through the streets of Cambridge before leaving for The Game...
...controversy over the BRA's plan to replace private homes in North Harvard with high-rise, high-rent apartments, attracted state and national attention this summer when the 11, including two Harvard graduates, Steven B. Goldin '64 and James B. Wheelis '64, were arrested in two separate incidents...