Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like many other young blacks. Reds and Dino are vastly suspicious of the police. Recently, when they were leaving the apartment of a friend who lives in a predominantly white suburban building, they were surrounded by three police cars, thrown against one of the cars and searched. Says Reds: "This been happening so long you can't hardly get mad about it any more. Except that now we know it's something wrong with them, not with...
...maladroit federal programs, such as urban renewal and highway building, which razed 800,000 city units between 1949 and 1967. The Government has also speeded the white exodus from cities. Since World War II, it has financed only 800,000 urban units, while insuring the financing of 10 million suburban homes. Fortunately, the Federal Housing Administration has begun to change this pattern. More than 50% of FHA's mortgage insuring activity has lately been shifted to properties in central cities. Blighted urban areas now account for more than 8%, compared with...
...blue-collar jobs they create remain inaccessible to blacks trapped in the inner cities. When the National Bureau of Standards left Washington to relocate in Gaithersburg, Md., for example, the total number of employees increased by 125. But black employment decreased by 73; blacks could not afford suburban housing and the commute took up to two hours each...
There are ways to resolve this dilemma. Suburbanites often advocate improving the transportation system between urban ghetto and suburban industry, thus keeping the blacks in the cities. Some politicians-and many blacks-favor moving industry back to the inner cities. Others hope to build integrated new towns either by starting from scratch in the country, or else by redeveloping vast areas of existing cities. But probably the most practical and far-reaching solution is to open the suburbs to urban blacks...
...books, they are notoriously unenforced. Example: the U.S. Justice Department has assigned 13 lawyers to enforce the Fair Housing Act of 1968; they have brought 44 cases to court and have won 13. Nor does persuasion hold much promise. When Vice President Spiro Agnew recently proposed that suburban housing and jobs be opened to blacks, suburbanites were ready with a reply: their towns already had plenty of "urban" problems (mainly caused by large populations of poor whites) and needed more federal help-not more blacks...