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While 50 pickets paraded outside with signs declaring "Urban Renewal is Legalized Thievery" and discontented citizens interrupted his speech with hisses, Robert C. Weaver '29 last night maintained that the federal urban renewal program is becoming "more humanoriented...
...Weaver, who is administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, told his Sanders audience in the second Godkin lecture that there is "a new direction" in the urban renewal program in which "moderate-income housing and rehabilitation of existing housing will be stressed...
With the use of such "new tools" as rent subsidies to displaced families and cash payments to displaced small businesses, there will be "a lessening of the relocation load, and greater preservation of existing neighborhoods," Weaver explained...
...romantic illusion" to be lieve that urban renewal will solve all the city's economic problems or clear all the slums, Weaver emphasized. And in the past, he added, renewal programs have too frequently complicated rather than cased these problems...
...future, urban renewal "will not do the whole job." Grants for construction of "social public facilities," and improvement of mass transportation. Weaver concluded, "will have even greater impact on people...