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Some of them have managed to hike up rents so much in their rent-controlled buildings that poor and even moderateincome tenants have been forced to leave, and one is a fixture at evictions at the Rent Control Board. Some are slum landlords with extremely poor tenants, who let buildings run down, and do not even fix leaking roofs...
SALAAM BOMBAY! An Indian Oliver Twist learns the ways of slum-life survival in Mira Nair's poignant documentary fable...
...hardly listened to anything else, apart from Motown, Stax, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding -- and Jackie Wilson. He was my favorite." All the members of UB40 have known one another since their shared childhoods in Balsall Heath, a predominantly black neighborhood near the center of Birmingham. "It was a slum," says Campbell, but Brian Travers, who plays sax and acts as de facto spokesman, cautions, "Don't get the idea that we grew up poor, because we didn't. We didn't go hungry and have holes in our shoes or anything...
...strategy called community action: first sell the downtrodden on their ability to bring about massive change within the system, then inspire them to go out and do it. The tactics are ingeniously simple but hardly new. They date to the 1930s when Alinsky used them in an Irish-American slum behind Chicago's stockyards...
Brothers gave me my first glimpse into the Robert Taylor Homes, and what life there can do to people. This book shows how utterly degrading publicly sanctioned slum living is. The steel mesh fencing that encloses the balconies of each building to prevent people from falling symbolizes the hopelessness that pervades the project. There's a great view of the city skyline, but through the bars of a cage it seems very far away...