Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President exulted too soon. Last week, thanks to an incredible blunder by Housing and Home Finance Agency Administrator Robert Weaver, the pro gram was dead. Its demise was hastened by the curiosity of Michigan Republican James Harvey, 43, who found HHFA experts suspiciously reluctant to circulate the regulations covering financial eligibility for rent aid. Harvey demanded a copy and, as a member of the House's housing subcommittee, got one immediately. To his astonishment, Harvey found that under Weaver's HHFA-approved rules relating to the elderly and the handicapped (who could collect up to 70% of their...
...articles (one by federal housing official Robert Weaver) deal with New Towns, i.e. autonomous suburban communities planned and created in one stroke. Their main point of agreement is an insistence that lower-income housing be included. Both articles point out a trend toward upper-income New Towns; but as graduate student David Dasch observes, no town can exist without garbage men. Two basic assumptions in the design of New Towns seem to be that green expanses should be maximized, and ranch houses eliminated...
...Senate agreed that it could, sent the bill along to conference to iron out minor differences between it and a similar bill passed by the House. As to whom President Johnson will appoint as his first surrogate for U.S. cities, the obvious choice seemed to be Robert Weaver, whose job as administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency will be eliminated under the new setup. Weaver was President Kennedy's candidate for the post in 1962, and his selection in advance was a cause for the bill's rejection by a riled Congress. Johnson, however...
...Weaver announced that he would not see the delegation, explaining, "It would be unfair for me to interject myself into what evidently is a local problem." Goldin, however, believes that Weaver may be persuaded to change his mind...
...last-ditch effort aimed at getting help from federal authorities and dramatizing their plight even further, the residents announced that they were renting a bus to send a delegation today to confer with Robert Weaver, head of the federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, and other officials who might be able to help. And who was helping to set things up on the Washington end but another prime contender for the Saltonstall seat - Salty himself. "He's been really wonderful on this thing," says Goldin, "very helpful all along...