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Died. Wolf Ladejinsky, 76, Russian-born land reformer; in Washington, D.C. A specialist in Soviet and Asian farm policies, Ladejinsky was tapped by General Douglas MacArthur in 1945 to draw up a land reform bill for occupied Japan. The legislation he drafted emancipated Japan's tenant farmers enabling millions of them to acquire title to their plots and toppling forever the base of Japanese feudalism...
...often, public housing projects turn out to be much like low-income dwellings run by private absentee land lords: poorly maintained by owner and tenant alike. So it was in St. Louis, where the 33-building, $40 million Pruitt-Igoe project, intended two decades ago to be a model for the nation, now stands abandoned and partially demolished. Embarrassed by the fiasco, St. Louis housing officials are trying something new: turning the management of projects over to the tenants themselves...
...residents - nearly all of them black and poor - of four of the city's largest public housing developments have been running their own show for more than a year with considerable success. At each project, a salaried tenant-manager, chosen by his neighbors, heads a staff of paid workers and volunteers who do everything from mowing the lawns to patrolling the halls. Besides providing jobs, the system has led to reduced crime, cleaner and greener surroundings, and a general upsurge of civic pride. The projects are not yet free of drug traffic, and some tenants still refuse to cooperate...
...physiocrats believe all wealth comes from land. In Cambridge this may be true. And the Cambridge Tenants' Organizing Committee (CTOC), started in 1970 to fight for the adoption of rent control, is fighting yet another tenant-versus-landlord battle...
...basic human necessity. One might hazard that it is a basic right. The current systemic tug-of-war cannot guarantee it. Why Pillsbury thinks that urban planners, bankers, politicians, and landlords will provide reasonable rents without being forced to do so by the organized power of large, militant tenant groups is a mystery to me. His "balanced analysis" fails to show that the current economic crisis comes down hardest of all on the minimum living standards of poor and working people and only secondarily upon landlords and hapless local governments--while the profits of large banks and corporations are safeguarded...