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Bravo to Mrs. Jacobs for bringing to light the truth about "slum areas" and housing developments [Nov. 10]. For one who has lived in the Back Bay area of Boston and who is now living in the "never-never" land of married student housing, I welcome Mrs. Jacobs' arguments with open arms. How 1 would love to once again dodge people, taxis and cigarette butts for a "corn beef on rye" in a cozy basement delicatessen. Until such a time I only pray that the city planners are sentenced to live in the bleak "hells" called housing projects...
Nowhere has the drive to rehabilitate Washington achieved more remarkable results than in the city's Southwest quadrant, from Capitol Hill to the Waterfront. The area was long a fetid slum (through it once ran bawdy old Four-and-a-Half Street, the capital's last centralized red-light district). Now the builders have cut a 550-acre swath through Southwest Washington. Some 4,657 families, most of them Negro, have been relocated. Beside NASA's new edifice, three other Federal Office Buildings are rising on Independence Avenue, and two more will be built...
Window to the World. Harassed at every turn, the opposition was unable to rent headquarters in downtown Lisbon, had to settle for three fly-blown rooms in a condemned slum tenement (rent: $400 for 30 days). Posing as sympathizers, secret police tried to worm their way into the organization; one was spotted and nearly lynched. Censors either suppressed candidates' statements, delayed them until the government had its reply ready, or simply doctored them to suit Salazar. The Roman Catholic hierarchy, which has had its differences with Salazar, published a message cautioning Catholics not to vote for "Communists or their...
Down with Superblocks. Successful neighborhoods, Mrs. Jacobs argues, may have all the earmarks of slums but paradoxically have great vitality. In Boston's North End district, for example, rents are low, the blocks are small but densely populated, and small shops prosper. Streets and sidewalks sparkle with activity; everybody knows everybody else, and outsiders like to stroll there. And in the face of all the city planners' tenets, North End has the lowest delinquency, disease and infant mortality rates in the city. Yet planners keep talking of the need to "redevelop" North End, and bankers almost always refuse...
Tentative long range projects for the group include: 1. Study of local problems of discrimination in housing, employment, educational opportunities and slum development. A House seminar on this topic is one possibility. 2. Action in the form of economic boycotts, picketing, sit-ins, and exposure of discriminatory practices. 3. Support for the student movement in the South and spread of information about the situation there through speakers such as William Higgs, Mississippi lawyer, who spoke here last week...