Word: kristof
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Some of the houses deserve to be junked, but the abandonment of others is a loss to the community because they could be salvaged. Cities complain that they lack the resources to cope with the problem. Frank S. Kristof, director of the housing-programs division for the New York State Urban Development Corporation, argues that a huge infusion of federal funds is needed, both to rehabilitate the houses and to maintain them. Any such federal program would have to be directed at whole neighborhoods. Instead of building new subsidized public housing -which often "locks people into the cities," as Kristof...