Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meeting that challenge will take more creativity and boldness than we have used. We should create opportunities for home ownership for low-income families, who can build up equity in apartments they occupy as purchasers rather than as tenants. We must shape the physical design and administrative procedures of public housing to make that possible. We should shift our thinking about management responsibilities to provide for cooperative management or even ownership of publicly-subsidized housing by tenants. We should be wiling to test new methods of producing techniques, scattered-site development, the "turnkey" method of housing built more quickly...
...past, a barrier to using renewal tools has been the justifiable suspicion on the part of the community of urban renewal being used "on" them. If we are to take advantage of renewal, we must wipe out these suspicions. I therefore recommend that the council adopt as a matter of public policy a procedure which will allow the approval of residential renewal projects only after a policy committee, composed solely of residents of the project areas, with full veto powers over the plans, approves those plans. It is in this manner, and only in this manner that we can establish...
...action was the demonstrate that new repressive laws were not needed to deal with events such as those at Harvard. "We must keep order on our own campuses," he said, and went on to state that, if colleges failed to do so, other bodies, such as the Congress, would take on the task. Later, in his testimony before the Green subcommittee, Pusey engaged in what was perhaps a bit of verbal over-kill, saying that colleges administrators' "wills and resolves are strengthening," and that "the new barbarians will be repulsed...
...simply accelerate past; the camera's move into high-angle, giving the shot of bloody bodies and smashed cars a mood of tragedy, is ignored by the motorists who drive into the distance. The scene is a brilliant metaphor for bourgeois social relations--the stopped motorists, though unwilling to take any action (collective or individual) about their total situation, react violently when any single person tries to get ahead of them. The central fact is their enmity to each other, realized both in their actions and in the blaring horns that gives the situation its proper background...
Just hop on the MTA to Park Street, transfer to Government Center, and take the Airport line to Suffolk Downs, Admission is $1.50 and hotdogs are 40 cents. Post time for the first race...