Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year. By far the most controversial part of the President's program was a plan to provide direct subsidies, for rent or mortgage payments, for some 500,000 city families with incomes as high as $8,000 a year. Initially, the aid would be limited to families displaced by Government projects such as urban renewal and highway construction, to those presently in substandard housing, to the impoverished elderly, and to displaced or ill-housed families capable of increasing their income in the future. In general, the formula would call for such families to pay 20% of their income...
Criticizing Johnson's proposal to give rent subsidies to "moderate" income families, Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, said "people who are competent to make choices should not be told how to spend their money." He added that an inadequate income does not necessarily indicate an inability to spend more money wisely...
Banfield has no sympathy for Johnson's plan for a system of rent subsidies to help the building industry. "The building industry can damn well help itself," he said...
Logue is, however, "very pleased," with the new emphasis on rehabilitation programs and rent subsidies for "moderate" income families. He noted that the BRA is already experimenting with such subsidies in Washington Park as "a federal pilot project." If the President's proposal is approved, the subsidy system will be extended to other parts of the city. Logue suggested that first priority for subsidies be given to families who have been displaced by urban renewal or highway construction...
...trailer as a temporary office in the middle of the community and has taken title to all the land. Many residents have refused to comply with an order that they pay rent...