Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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 senators last week declared that Congress should "provide adequate funds for promising new urban programs," especially the model cities and rent-supplement ones. This joint statement is an encouraging sign because the Senate Appropriations Committee will act on these programs soon, and only a decisive Senate victory can offset the massive House cutbacks in the direly needed proposals. The Administration is sure to secure some model city appropriations, but its rent-supplement plan will be difficult to salvage. The House has voted against supplements by a decisive 62 votes, and it will require an impressive Senate reversal...
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...