Word: slusser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Realtor Charles E. Slusser was mayor of Akron (1944-53), he led a fight to replace city slums with public housing and met with stiff resistance from some of his fellow real-estate men who opposed Government housing as interference with private business. This week Republican Slusser made a speech before the Akron Real Estate Board as Eisenhower Administration spokesman and its Public Housing Commissioner...
Public housing is a useful weapon for correcting "civic disgraces," said ex-Mayor Slusser, harking back to the old controversy: "In this city, I was denied that weapon. I would not have it denied to my successors." Slusser appealed to his fellow townsmen to recognize the new public-housing program as a good example of the change in attitude toward business which the 1952 election brought to Washington...
...case of public housing, said Slusser, the plateau of teamwork can be reached through a city's slum section, which produces an everlasting succession of headaches but little revenue for private real-estate men. "My guess is that nobody in this audience is handling slum homes. You want customers-not the nickels and dimes wrung out of human misery...
...such liabilities be converted to business assets? Commissioner Slusser made his case: "In building self-respect and hope for tenants, public housing is building future customers for private homes . . . Roughly one-fifth of all families who leave public housing become purchasers of their own homes . . . For children reared in the cleanliness of public housing, it is a challenge to do better than their parents ... In short, public housing creates hope-and hope for the future is the fuel that powers the engines of private enterprise...
...real-estate men, thought Charlie Slusser, should have no "grounds for apprehension at the use of this weapon." Said he: "Taken together with the philosophy of this Administration, I think you will agree, this is no camel nose of Government trying to get under the private building tent...