Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson proposed a Cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development, which would serve as "a focal point for thought and innovation and imagination about the problems of our cities." The new department would absorb the present Housing and Home Finance Agency, help cities draw up metropolitan-area plans for orderly growth, train local planners, administer federal grants to states and cities for planning studies, and support research into new building techniques to reduce overall construction costs...
...grants to cities for landscaping, tree planting, park improvement "and other measures to bring beauty and nature to the city dweller." He also asked for continuation of the public-housing program, at the rate of 35,000 new units a year, and an increase in the federal outlay for urban renewal to $750 million annually by 1968, with an accompanying shift in emphasis from business and industrial districts to residential neighborhoods...
Much of the President's message was devoted to housing for low-income (up to $3,000) families. He sought authority to use urban-renewal and public-housing funds to rehabilitate existing housing, which would then be made available to such families. He also requested permission to use urban-renewal funds to help low-income homeowners repair their homes...
...controversial part of the President's program was a plan to provide direct subsidies, for rent or mortgage payments, for some 500,000 city families with incomes as high as $8,000 a year. Initially, the aid would be limited to families displaced by Government projects such as urban renewal and highway construction, to those presently in substandard housing, to the impoverished elderly, and to displaced or ill-housed families capable of increasing their income in the future. In general, the formula would call for such families to pay 20% of their income for housing-and the Government would...
...concerned: both held seminars on narcotics control for the benefit of college administrators. The New York bureau has collected evidence of marijuana use at 15 upstate New York campuses. Dr. Gerald L. Klerman of the Harvard Medical School staff estimates that 10% of the students at such large urban universities as Harvard, Stanford and California's Berkeley campus are "chronic users." As many as a third of the undergraduates at Yale and Columbia, according to an informed estimate, have at least tried the drug. And Cornell's President James A. Perkins is worried enough to have brought...