Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal government's housing and redevelopment program has-moved a long way since the first housing act in 1937 and the first urban renewal bill in 1947. President Johnson's housing message to Congress represents another impressive step forward. It signifies Johnson's realization that the traditional approach to urban redevelopment has been neither as effective nor as intelligent as its original sponsors had hoped...
...President has wisely asked that the government abandon the approach to urban renewal that calls for complete demolition of neighborhoods. This policy, identified with such irrepressible planners as Robert Moses, too often has resulted in unhappy and unpleasant projects like that in Boston's West End. The spirit and sense of community were destroyed along with the slums, and the drab, institutionalized replacements are certainly less cohesive and hardly more attractive than the former slum neighborhood...
...also realized the need to protect areas which will themselves become slums without proper maintenance. At the same time he has urged a more careful approach to the tremendous task of relocation where the "human cost... remains a serious and difficult problem." 157,000 people have been displaced by urban renewal, and less than 17% of them live in public projects. Often in the past relocation has meant "only another slum dwelling and the likelihood of the same experience." To prevent this cycle the President has suggested an increased subsidy of $120 a year per unit for families who otherwise...
Comment was published five times in 1961-62, and three times after that. However, it was continually plagued by financial problems, and after May resigned in 1962 the situation got worse. The last issue, which appeared this fall, concerned urban renewal...
...often been rumored that Daley would run for the Senate or take a cabinet level post as a Director of Urban Affairs. But as he says, "I could have gone to Washington a long time ago if I wanted to: I like the local level, it's closest to the people, and the opportunities for effective leadership are greater. Besides, Chicago is moving ahead...