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Despite nationwide attempts to write new regulations, there are still 5,000,000 substandard houses in cities-nearly all of them without running water or indoor toilets-and in some areas the number of barely habitable homes continues to rise. In New York alone, substandard houses have increased from 420,000 to 520,000 since 1960. Archaic taxing methods actually discourage slumlords from improving their properties, since they would then be assessed at a higher rate...
...seldom seen Protestants, and Dutch prelates who pray with them almost daily; U.S. cardinals whose most pressing concern is a multimillion-dollar building fund, and Asian missionaries whose church is a Quonset hut. Methodist Observer Albert C. Outler of Texas says that "several of the decrees and declarations are substandard; several are no better than mediocre." One of the worst is a decree on mass communications which implies the right of governments to censor the press; hardly better is the declaration On Christian Education which is little more than a cliche-ridden defense of parochial schools...
...Radcliffe administration plans that the fourth house will provide accommodations for girls now living in overcrowded dormitories and in off campus houses officially considered "substandard housing...
...Poland, 4,000,000 pairs of shoes last year had to be reclassified to lower categories, and 18.3% of radio and TV sets were declared substandard. To stop unwanted goods from piling up in warehouses, the Polish government last year clapped fines totaling $8,000,000 on producers of TV sets, radios and appliances that did not meet quality specifications. For the same reason, Bulgaria's Foreign Trade Ministry has refused to issue licenses for more than 600 shipments destined for abroad, complained that poor-quality production seemed to be a permanent feature of many plants...
Hooverville shanties went out with the 1930s, and Government-subsidized apartments are climbing skyward in the slums, but most of the poor continue to suffer mean and overcrowded shelter. The 1960 census listed 15.6 million of the nation's 58 million houses and apartments as substandard -including 3,000,000 shacks and tenements and 8,300,000 "deteriorating houses," where the poor often pay a higher rental per square foot than the middle classes do. Health is also a poverty problem. The poor suffer mental illness at a sinister rate, triple that of the middle and upper classes, according...