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...withdrawal of funds culminated a two month protest against Gordon by the B.U. News, Students for a Democratic Society, and other groups. They claim that Gordon maintains substandard housing in South Boston and Roxbury and has been recalcitrant in correcting housing complaints to the Massachusetts Commission on Discrimination...
...contained an ambitious program to provide 26 million new homes and apartments for low-and middle-income families in the next decade, more than ten times the number of such units built in the past decade under federal programs. In hopeful theory at least, the plan should eliminate all substandard housing in the nation. If Congress approves, the construction of 6,000,000 of the homes and apartments would be subsidized directly by the Government for low-income families over the next ten years. In the first year, 300,000 homes would be built, and for the first time...
Kirk's frugality caused the N.E.A. to warn its nationwide membership of 1,000,000 that working conditions for teachers were substandard in the state and that it could be considered "unethical" for them to take a job there. Leaders of the Florida association even urged businesses to open no new branches in the state, unsuccessfully opposed Miami's effort to bring the 1968 Republican National Convention there. An N.E.A. task force toured six of Florida's largest cities, urging civic and business leaders to lobby for a special legislative session devoted to school problems...
...target area of the grant will be a 268-acre region north of Central Square, described in the City's application as having "substandard housing, pockets of blight, overcrowding and mixed land use, and inadequate facilities." Using the facilities of Harvard and M.I.T., and relying heavily on the judgments of residents in the affected area, the program will attempt to achieve long range stability for the neighborhood. Local residents will elect a majority of the members of the agency which will supervise planning under the grant, and they will be able to vote on any final proposals in a referendum...
Somewhere along the line, the Mission Rebels drafted an eleven-point manifesto for their generation's hangups. They declared war on "an image that does not give a true picture of youth"; a community that does not give youth a voice in planning; and an environment marred by substandard education, limited training programs, jobs with no future, adult lack of interest and discrimination. Since then, unlike many a youth group elsewhere, they have won most battles in their generational war-plus $82,000 from the Office of Economic Opportunity...