Word: redevelopment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MAYORS OF AMERICA'S cities have nothing to rejoice about this election year. In 1976 they had some hope. Jimmy Carter promised to be the first president to establish a national urban policy. He proposed a "new partnership" in government to redevelop our inner cities and place some of the burden of caring for our urban poor upon the federal government. More of America's resources, Carter promised, would be devoted to lifting urban areas out of economic distress and fiscal crisis...
Blacks say that white Miami is embarrassed of them because they are poor. Three years ago, when the city decided to redevelop a Black area of Coconut Grove, skeptics claimed that the city didn't do it out of social consciousness but because it was afraid the tourists would see an ugly side of town. As Miami has grown wealthier, the Blacks' poverty has become more noticeable, and the Blacks have been pushed onto the margin of economic life...