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...city's imaginative urban-renewal administration with a greatly disproportionate share of federal renewal money-$852 per capita (given or pledged), or six times as much as Philadelphia, in terms of population, 17 times as much as Chicago, 20 times as much as New York. Indeed, Robert Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, once observed that New Haven (pop. 142,000) came closest to "our dream of a slumless city." Yet last week the model city was racked with the same virus of ghetto discontent that has plagued scores of other U.S. cities this summer...
...national publicity, may have contributed to the sense of frustration. People who lived in dilapidated housing in the largely Negro Hill and Dixwell areas may simply have grown tired of hearing that their city was doing more than any other to house its poor. To many, the gap between Weaver's dream and everyday reality became intolerable. "We've been telling the Negro that there's a new day," notes Mitchell Sviridoff, who left New Haven's poverty program last year to become head of New York City's Human Resources Administration* "But there...
Others have served up the subject matter before, but have always done so in small doses--diluting, as Claude Weaver '65 puts it, "the hundred-proof truth with large draughts of humanitarian appeal." Wright's sociological and philosophical monograph, Black Power and Urban Unrest, demonstrates a surprising measure of clarity as well as intuition, acute political savvy as well as a cultivated sense of outrage...
Testifying before a Senate committee last year, then Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach officially put Government spending in the cities at $14.7 billion. In the same week, Robert Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, reckoned that it actually amounted to $28.4 billion; and Lyndon Johnson, with lightning application of both old and new math, set it at $30 billion. This year, Budget Director Charles Schultze admitted to a Senate subcommittee, the Government is giving out only $10.3 billion in "federal aid payments in urban areas." Even this more down-to-earth figure is probably far too high an estimate...
Definition Gap. The problem is mostly one of definition. Johnson and Weaver defined aid to the "cities" as any federal expenditure in any community with a population over 2,500-not omitting $14.6 billion for such items as Social Security and railroad-retirement payments. Katzenbach somehow managed to include in his sum federal grants for agricultural-experiment stations, commercial fisheries, and the systematization of weights and measures. Schultze was a more scrupulous bookkeeper, but even his more modest reckoning includes $2.1 billion for construction of urban expressways, which hardly help and often visibly harm the poor whose neighborhoods...