Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mary Wissler's conclusion in her review of The Federal Bulldozer that Anderson avoids the problem of slum housing misses the main point of the book: that urban renewal itself is the single largest housing problem faced by the poor today...
...government is really concerned with low-income housing, there are numerous agencies which could directly handle the basic problems--the Public Housing Authority to construct new dwellings and subsidize rents; Building Departments to enforce codes and prevent deterioration; the FHA to provide mortgage money for urban areas instead of draining it away to the suburbs. The history of dismal failures by these agencies would appear to indicate that no overwhelming desire to help the poor exists...
...next victim. And even if he is filled with escapist envy for the gypsy's irresponsible lot, his conscience, drummed by a thousand pleas, dampens his delight. In the climate of today's opinion, play-gypsies-play translates into the specter of migrant urban nonworkers, who are just about as amusing as migrant agricultural workers, and everyone knows how funny they...
...England Urban Development Corporation has contracted to build "300 moderate-income housing units with rents ranging from $140-$250 per month on the land," said Maurice Simon, a developer for the firm...
Despite all this, The Federal Bulldozer is worth the time it takes you to get from the cover-picture of a fierce neighborhood-destroyer caught in the act, to the back-flap photo of the author, who looks the picture of innocence. Anderson dispels the long-standing myth that urban renewal is a cure-all for city housing problems. It is regrettable that he builds so many myths...