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...teeming slum quarters of the bassi - the cellar houses known in the city as "the low places" - the malaise has brought with it a deep sense of humiliation. "Around here at night, you have to walk with a whip because the rats are so big," complained one aging woman as she looked with disgust into an ancient sewer. "Here everything remains the way it was before...
...from enough houses to meet the demand. So far, the city has acquired only 1,031 lots with 562 available houses, but there are 36,000 abandoned homes in Philadelphia, at least half of which are in good enough condition to be rehabilitated. Given the hazards of slum life, loans to refurbish the houses will have to be made by public-spirited corporations. But then, the first homesteaders were never promised a rose garden. The new law is a bold response to the grim urban paradox of a shortage of adequate housing accompanied by the abandonment of structurally sound homes...
...least $5,000,000 to replace. Boston University is spending $400,000 to fix it up. Even less striking buildings are worth refurbishing. Weese is currently starting a project, funded by the Federal Housing Administration, to rehabilitate an elegant, old three-story walk-up apartment house in a Chicago slum. "You can't duplicate it today," he says. "Saving this kind of building saves a bit of the urban environment...
...noon - The Last Angry Man. Paul Muni's last angry film, in which he gives a stirring portrayal of a doctor in a Brooklyn slum. Channel 12. if your set gets...
...SLUM. Cheap merchandise given as prizes in hanky panks. Example: a piece of plush, or stuffed animal...