Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Hoover Administration began to get actively exercised about the Depression, New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner introduced, among other features of his proposed Unemployment relief legislation, the idea of lending Federal funds for city slum clearance. Robert Ferdinand Wagner, born in rural Germany but raised in a teeming tenement district of Manhattan, well knows the housing conditions that exist and are for the most part steadfastly ignored, even denied, in every city in the land. Alfred Emanuel Smith and other political friends of Senator Wagner with city backgrounds lent him their support in pushing the idea...
...Relief Act of 1932 was not drafted to put millions of dollars into the hands of speculative realtors and builders. Congress, in authorizing loans for slum clearance, demanded a measure of State or municipal supervision over such self-liquidating projects. Federal dollars are to go only to "corporations formed wholly for the purpose of providing housing for families of low income or for reconstruction of slum areas which are regulated by State or municipal law as to rents, charges, capital structure, rate of return and areas and methods of operation." As New York is the only State today which...
...loans to States, counties, municipalities or other public agencies to finance self-liquidating public works like toll bridges, tunnels, water works, slum removals...
...labor, introduction of unemployment, accident and disability insurance, the turning of public income from armament building to "productive employment enriching the com mon life." A committee of three bishops was named to urge immediate jobless relief on President Hoover. ¶Condemnation of gambling "from the crap game in a slum alley to speculation on the Stock Exchange." Recommendation: more vigorous enforcement of gambling laws...
...said U. S. architects are "unfit to build houses for the America of the future unless they are able to plan as if working for a Communist government." Amplification of his remark was less dramatic. He explained that he meant the building of the future will be large-scale slum reclamation and large-scale cheap housing rather than work for the choosy individual...