Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dribble Here, Dribble There. The Administration's model-cities and rent-supplement programs are generally regarded by experts as imaginative ways of getting to the ghettos' problems. However, both have been so meagerly funded that no hard assessment is yet possible. Given the funds available, suggests University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade, it might be better to concentrate on a few projects, rather than scattering money on more than a hundred. "There are so many programs," he says, "that there's no real way to monitor them and tell what they're doing...
...same Republican opponents who criticize this program's costs are the ones who staunchly support the funding of Senator Percy's plan to provide below-market interest-rate loans to low-moderate income families purchasing homes. In other words, they argue that rent supplements are too costly, but that Percy's plan--their own Republican proposal--is not. Regardless of the merits of the Percy proposal, the use of it as a substitute for rent supplements is outrageous. Supplements aid the very poor, while the Percy bill would help only those people who could show enough income stability to maintain...
...rent supplements plan does not purport to be a panacea for the ghetto. Its concept, however, is vastly superior to that of public housing, which has not been able to accommodate most of the nation's poor and often makes matters worse. In some cases of urban renewal, poor people are evicted without sufficient provision being made for their relocation at rents they can pay. In other cases, the new public housing structures themselves deteriorate into slums. Because all tenants of a public housing project have low incomes, the project has basically the same atmosphere as an urban ghetto; almost...
...income. In public housing, however, a tenant has to give up his dwelling when his income exceeds the eligibility level. When the supplement tenant's income rises above the local eligibility limits, he no longer receives the supplement but may remain in the project and pay the full rent. And the fact that private enterprise sponsors the supplements projects is an advantage. Then, private groups, rather than the government, pay for construction and administration...
...will probably take a 15 or 20-vote Senat evictory if the rent-supplements measure is to get any appropriation through a House-Senate conference. Instead of responding to the ghetto riots with dreams of massive new urban projects, Democratic leaders should push frantically for this relatively small experimental program...