Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states in turn went Democratic by virtue of sizable Kennedy majorities in the big cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit. Thus, while Kennedy can without undue cynicism scrap the farm program the Midwest rejected, he cannot in good conscience go back on his promises of housing and urban renewal for the cities. His debt to them is too great...
...this debt is one well worth paying, for urban blight--in the form of rapidly growing slums and deteriorating transportation systems--is one of the nation's most persistent and depressing problems. In New York, for example, the impressive office buildings going up along Park Avenue and in the mid-town area stand in radical contrast to the slum conditions spreading in what not too long ago were fine residential neighborhoods. The cities are so much the center of modern cultural, social and economic life that their decay must be a cause for great national concern...
...private investment for urban renewal a likely possibility. Real estate men are not practicing philanthropy, at least not on business hours, and slum properties are very profitable investments because of the high population concentration. To participate in urban renewal projects would mean not only giving up lucrative tenement properties, but also paying exorbitant prices for slum land in order to construct (at high cost) less profitable housing. So a lot of government money is needed to set up a meaningful urban renewal program. With the state unwilling and the city unable to contribute a great deal, the bulk...
...large injections of Federal money do not guarantee the success of a given project, for urban renewal is a tricky and complex business. It can create as many new problems as it solves old ones. For example, it does no good to tear down a slum when you have no place to house those who are dispossessed and when the new housing will accomodate not slum dwellers but higher income residents. By giving the old inhabitants no new housing within their means, the urban renewal project has merely hastened the creation of a new slum somewhere else. These mistakes...
...Kennedy Administration must recognize that the positive way to deal with the pressures in Southern society for segregation is to develop pressures in the other direction. Housing Commissioner Weaver's plan for urban renewal, partially geared toward the development of integrated communities, presents an excellent method of providing forces to counter, in a positive way, the social forces driving Southerners toward discrimination...