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...nation is in agreement that its slums must be eliminated, but most solutions to the problem have been be clouded by a deep philosophical and economic schism between the adherents of private redevelopment and those who advocate publicly financed urban renewal. Last week Illinois Freshman Senator Chuck Percy introduced a housing bill that would combine both approaches and, in addition, give the slum dweller a stake in his own environment...
Percy's plan-a major plank in his 1966 Senate campaign-calls for the establishment by the Federal Government of a nationwide, nonprofit, private housing federation that would buy and rebuild slum dwellings, then sell them to low-income families on a unit-by-unit basis, thus giving the man in the slum a stake in his own neighborhood. Working from a base of a threeyear, $60 million Government outlay and $2 billion in federal debenture bonds, the plan would ultimately generate up to $1.3 billion in rehabilitated housing...
...itinerary that included not only the Senate session but a briefing by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a coq au vin dinner with serenades by two musical groups. The celebration cost Percy $15,625 and won him the reputation of a man who delivers on his promises-to slum dwellers and party stalwarts alike...
...preponderance of mothers underscores the matriarchal nature of slum society. Most of the women either never married or are widowed, divorced, or abandoned. Two-thirds of the fathers are classified as incapacitated by illness or injury, leaving only the balance of 50,000 employable at any given time. By law, men in this category must accept vocational training and jobs offered them through Government employment agencies or lose their relief benefits...
...that, eviction of the present paying tenants means that the building remains fallow during the months of renovation work. Last week New York City and federal housing authorities teamed up with the civic-minded Carolyndale Foundation to stage an impressive demonstration of what can be done to rehabilitate a slum structure in just 48 hours...