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Gallagher said that the article, "A Substitute for Utopianism," by William W. Schroeder III, member of the Systems Dynamics at MIT, told people that they do not know what is good for them, and only allowed them to choose "the color of the slum they were forced to live in." The article appeared on The Crimson's Opinion page Tuesday...
...though, it has become obvious that the freeze will not only prevent much new building, but will stop many slum-rebuilding projects in midcourse, halting site-clearance work or even actual construction already in progress. Housing officials in some cities move such projects along on the basis of verbal commitments from federal officials. They sign a formal subsidy contract only when the builders are about to begin putting up steel and pouring concrete, or have already begun...
Builders concede that there have been abuses, but argue that tighter management from Washington could eliminate them without battering the construction industry or stopping needed slum clearance. They fear, however, that it will be a long time before they get any federal subsidy again-and with good reason. HUD officials in Chicago have not yet even received federal guidelines for evaluating the success or failure of the suspended programs. That lack indicates that the federal restudy is likely to use up the full 18 months, and then some...
...greatest risks and richest rewards are in the narcotics trade, which in many slum areas is increasingly controlled by blacks. Some are even bypassing the big-time importers, who are white, and bringing in their own heroin, cocaine and other drugs from Latin America or Southeast Asia. In Boston, police estimate that street sales of heroin, mainly by blacks to blacks, totaled $65 million last year. Factory owners, who buy in bulk, may knock down as much as $26,000 a week. Their distributors can earn $3,800, and the lowly pusher, often an addict, gets about...
...hereby put Harvard University on direct notice that it is clearly their responsibility for the slum conditions that exist in Cambridge. It is this University that has stated publicly its intentions for community oriented assistance toward low-income housing, I now say: put up or shut up," Pyle demanded in a recent CDA bulletin...