Word: substandard
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...water and electricity in inhabited slum houses whose owners had refused to foot the bill. He relied in part on a D.C. statute permitting the mayor to provide for utilities and impose a lien on such property. "Where hundreds of residents already living a marginal existence in substandard housing face a cutoff of gas, water and electricity," he wrote, "the municipality has a duty to exercise its inherent power...
...matter of inadequate funds or a matter of life-style and culture. Until the poor are given the opportunity to live and participate in the mainstream of American life, there will be no way to determine whether the poor are inherently lazy and unmotivated or whether a substandard environment and an inferior social position have influenced their actions...
...hundred dollars, and then resell the property under Section 235 for a profit of thousands of dollars." Buyers are willing to pay outrageous prices partly because of the exceptionally easy terms made possible by the subsidies. In Paterson, N.J., for example, a speculator recently sold 15 old, substandard properties at prices ranging from $7,650 to $18,200 more than he had just paid for them-with FHA approval. One house, a former tavern that had been ordered boarded up by the city, was sold for $1,800 to a speculator who unloaded it four months later...
...program, the staff labeled two projects, in Elmwood, Mo., and Everett, Wash., as "instant slums" because of shoddy construction, flimsy materials or fire hazards. In Seattle, some Section 235 buyers-all on welfare-are suing FHA for damages because, soon after they moved in, the city declared their homes "substandard" and ordered them repaired or condemned...
...with lettuce, Harvard admits that 20% of its purchases (amounting to 660 crates of lettuce, costing $3000 yearly) must come from sources having Teamster contracts in order to preserve university neutrality. Realistically, to call that policy a definitive stand in favor of substandard conditions for migrant workers is to exaggerate. So the students have been asking for a relatively small thing, a symbolic expression of sympathy with the cause...