Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...date, Cleveland's urban renewal program has torn down 4,255 dwelling units-yet it has replaced only 2,000. Of the 4,487 families who lived in those apartments and duplexes, only 114 found their way into public housing, while nearly 1,700 families disappeared entirely from official records. Though 25,000 Cleveland families are eligible for public housing, only 7,478 units are available, and a scant 2,500 more are planned for the near future. Much of the fault lies with lackadaisical Democratic Mayor Ralph Locher, who took over Cleveland's fate when Anthony Celebrezze...
Hopes into Headaches. When Washington offered to foot two-thirds of the bill for urban renewal a decade ago, Cleveland led the cities that applied for federal subsidies. Over the years, it staked out 6,060 acres for improvement-far outstripping its nearest rivals, Philadelphia (3,586) and Boston (1,787). Meanwhile, that hoped-for rehabilitation has become a headache: only one of Cleveland's seven reclamation projects has been completed; others remain wastelands of weed-grown vacant lots and high-rise trash heaps...
Debris & Malaise. In particular, Mayor Locher has done little to implement the ambitious urban renewal project promised for Hough six years ago, and the section remains a garbage-strewn jungle. Exacerbating racial unrest over slum conditions, Locher (rhymes with poker), a Rumanian-born attorney and friend of former Mayor, now Senator, Frank Lausche, recently ordered a harsh crackdown on Negro demonstrators. "Fill every jail, if necessary," he said. The panic implied in that pronouncement was summed up last week by Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Morton Kondracke, who concluded from a five-week nationwide tour of the urban ghettos: "In Cleveland...
...morning or evening, the papers could simply settle down and enjoy their profits. Instead the Globe and the P-D choose to fight it out. And the citizens of St. Louis fight right along with them. "Some swear by the Globe," says former Mayor Raymond Tucker, now professor of urban affairs at Washington University, "and some swear by the Post-Dispatch." And some swear at them. "Unfair, reactionary, hip-shooting" are epithets commonly hurled at the Globe. "Sluggish, effete, unpatriotic" are some of the names the Post-Dispatch is called. "The kindest word our critics use is liberal," says...
Robert C. Weaver, L.H.D., Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...