Word: model
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...people at City Hall, in turn, see themselves as the last outpost of fiscal responsibility combatting narrow-minded self-interest on the part of local factions. They view Model Cities as a group that doesn't have to return regularly to the electorate, and therefore is free to spend federal money on any proposal designed to benefit people in the Model Cities area...
...weeks ago forty staff workers and a dozen members of the Cities Demonstration Agency (CDA) Board invaded City Hall, hoping to confront and pin down City Manager John Corcoran and City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin on three specific issues-two contracts and Model Cities pay raises-that illustrated the clash of power over the program...
...concept of Model Cities was introduced as an early "War on Poverty" scheme to infuse large sums of money into eight selected cities. Logrolling in Congress modified that original idea, transforming it into a less-intensive aid program to more than 150 cities. The enabling legislation was approved and Cambridge was one of the first cities to enter the program...
...first one and a half years, Cambridge Model Cities has originated a wide variety of programs, including rehabilitation and construction of housing units, job training, a family center, a free dental clinic, services to the elderly, two day care centers, adult education and a pre-teen center...
...basic hope of the planners was that depressed neighborhoods could improve themselves with a minimum of outside professional direction. Model Cities is a confrontation-oriented structure, designed to experiment with a wide range of neighborhood assistance proposals, spin off the ones that work, and let the people of a selected area run the organization itself...