Word: redeveloped
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Community groups have joined master-planner Logue in his efforts to redevelop the South Bronx. On Kelly Street in the southeastern part of the area, a group called the Banana-Kelly Community Improvement Association has renovated five vacant buildings with CETA workers and "urban homesteaders." The homesteaders used their own labor as equity in financing the purchase of an apartment they rehabilitated. In one of the worst areas of the South Bronx, on 168th Street and Washington Avenue, another homesteading group, the People's Development Corporation, has rennovated five other tenements. Their remodeled buildings sport solar energy panels, greenhouses, storm...
...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...