Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate Subcommittee on Investigations has quietly begun to examine the Federal Housing Authority's policies and procedures for insuring mortgages. There is considerable evidence that the FHA has been misreading and mishandling Federal slum clearance legislation...
Section 220 of the Federal Housing Act of 1954 authorizes the FHA Commissioner to insure mortgages of "high risk" projects if their goal is the elimination of slum areas. The Committee Report accompanying the law implied that these mortgaged projects should provide low-rent housing...
...stark contrast is the Tondo slum on Manila's northern waterfront ? a maze of alleys, mud-floored huts, hovels built from packing cases. Some 8,000 pushcarts roll through Tondo in search of trash and scrap paper, the collection of which is the district's principal occupation. Tondo's kids are a combination of the worst in American and Asian street gangs: the "Canto Boys," with their distinctive madre tattoos, would as soon knife a stranger as zip-gun a passing police...
...crack Political Reporter David S. Broder and the Saturday Evening Post's Stanley Karnow, whom Bradlee has sent to roam Southeast Asia. Nicholas von Hoffman was brought to town from the Chicago Daily News and now travels from one ghetto to the next to assess the miseries of slum life. Hired from the New Republic, Wolf von Eckardt provides some of the most perceptive daily-newspaper comment on city planning...
Some of the issues that Banfield neglects, he said, are the limitations of federal programs for helping the poor, the work that volunteers are now doing in slum areas, and black power. He proposed that the seminar invite a Roxbury mother on welfare and other speakers to learn about them...