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...past decade, New Haven has pioneered nearly every program in the Great Society's lexicon. Months and years before the Federal Government showed any interest in the cities, it had its own poverty and manpower-training projects, a rent-supplement demonstration, and a promising Head Start program. Washington has rewarded the city's imaginative urban-renewal administration with a greatly disproportionate share of federal renewal money-$852 per capita (given or pledged), or six times as much as Philadelphia, in terms of population, 17 times as much as Chicago, 20 times as much as New York. Indeed, Robert...
Dribble Here, Dribble There. The Administration's model-cities and rent-supplement programs are generally regarded by experts as imaginative ways of getting to the ghettos' problems. However, both have been so meagerly funded that no hard assessment is yet possible. Given the funds available, suggests University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade, it might be better to concentrate on a few projects, rather than scattering money on more than a hundred. "There are so many programs," he says, "that there's no real way to monitor them and tell what they're doing...
...usually not enough to be dangerous. If he is given more than 20,000 units, a child becomes severely ill. In northern climes, most white adults make all the vitamin D they need from casual exposure of their face and hands to the sun and need no dietary supplement. They get ill on 100,000 units a day. But in the tropics, Loomis figures, the white man's unpigmented skin could make a deadly dose of D: up to 800,000 units, he calculates, in a six-hour exposure of his whole body to the equatorial...
Republican opponents have characterized the supplements as a "socialistic giveaway." They argue that it is wrong to tax one person to pay another's rent. Also the program will undoubtedly foster racial and economic integration and this implication has contributed greatly to the opposition; it is probably why the 1966 act included a rider granting local officials veto power over supplement projects...
...Supplements plan, by placing subsidized tenants in standard housing with non-subsidized higher-income families, gives the lower-income occupant an incentive to increase his income. In public housing, however, a tenant has to give up his dwelling when his income exceeds the eligibility level. When the supplement tenant's income rises above the local eligibility limits, he no longer receives the supplement but may remain in the project and pay the full rent. And the fact that private enterprise sponsors the supplements projects is an advantage. Then, private groups, rather than the government, pay for construction and administration...