Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slum dramatist, a guttersnipe who could jingle a few words together." That was how Playwright Sean O'Casey (The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock) summarized what much of the Irish press said of him and his works. Absolutely correct, agrees O'Casey-and proud of it. He promises to spend his whole life wearing "the tattered badge of [his proletarian] tribe . . . soiled with the diseased sweat of the tenements...
...Bill also strengthened the National Housing Agency. It would have appropriated $25 million for local research studies, strengthened existing aids to privately financed housing and provided Federal loans to localities for slum clearance and redevelopment. There were other titles for rural and farm housing and a provision for a yearly survey by the NHA and local officials to check needs and the progress of the program. The maximum appropriation per year would have been $133 million...
...includes the 500,000 units for low income groups of the old bill, but increases the total program to provide 300,000 units for the $2100-$3600 bracket. It also extends the planning and research title to coordinate urban decentralization for defense and use of vacant land rather than slum clearance when the shortage is so severe...
...rookeries" they replaced and use but 23% of the land compared to the rookeries' 60-70%. As for their height, "neither the Metropolitan nor public-housing officials can build two-story cottages or garden apartments housing a hundred people an acre on $8 to $10 a foot slum land. Mr. Mumford's funny arithmetic is based on the assumption that some private Santa Claus was . . . aching to buy this enormously expensive property, tear down and throw away all the old tenements, rebuild the slums, and pay the city full taxes...
Soon young Father McLoughlin began to be almost as well-known in Phoenix as the mayor. He organized a slum clearance campaign and wangled federal funds for three major housing projects. He started a church for poor people in a vacant store. Then he began to crusade for a hospital for the poor. He persuaded Mrs. Roosevelt to make a special trip to Phoenix on behalf of the project, and in 1943 the 232-bed St. Monica's Hospital was built, at a cost of more than $500,000. Father McLoughlin served as superintendent. He was also chairman...