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Turning to depressed areas and urban renewal, Harris, who helped write the Kennedy-Douglas area development bill, declared that massive Federal aid is vital, for "depressed areas account for 1/3 to 1/2 of our unemployment." And it is an absolute minimal necessity "for slum clearance to equal the rate of growth of our slums." The Republican bill for depressed areas amounted to $50 million in aid, he said, while the Kennedy-Douglas bill offered $250 million...
Heerwego: That's what I said: Heerwego, from City Slum Clearance. I've come to give you the word about the building...
...United States are ready to assume world leadership. When will they realize that with that leadership comes the responsibility for conditions such as those described by Carolina Maria de Jesus [in her best-selling book, Quarto de Despejo, about life in the São Paulo favela, or slum...
When Blanche first enters the Kowalskis' New Orleans slum dwelling, she has already watched her parents slowly die; she has married a boy who turned out to be a homosexual, and a suicidal one at that; she has tried to fight death with what she thinks to be its antithesis, love; and she has loved just about every available male in the town of Laurel. An affair with a seventeen-year-old boy caused her expulsion from the town and her trip to New Orleans to visit her sister and brother-in-law, the Kowalskis. After her first meeting with...
...migrant to the city is lucky enough to get a factory job, he is likely to find factory discipline Irksome and pointless.... Away from work he is more often than not herded into a wretched slum and exploited by the large, permanent underworld of beggars, vagrants, refugees, petty criminals and the like who manage some-how to survive on the fringe economies of the cities of the underdeveloped world...