Slum Clearance and Related Housing Problems: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Housing of the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session. January 7, 8, and 9, 1958U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 420 páginas |
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action ACTION-Housing activities ADDONIZIO agencies ALBERT RAINS Allegheny County American assistance Banking and Currency builders building CELEBREZZE Chairman citizens clearance and urban Cleveland Conference of Mayors Congress construction continue cost D. C. DEAR December 26 dwelling units economic Executive Director families Federal aid Federal Government Federal Housing Administration financing funds Garden Valley going Governor LEADER Haven highway Housing Act Housing Authority improvement income industrial January land legislation Lincoln Square loan Louis County low-rent housing ment metropolitan million mortgage municipal neighborhood operation organization percent planning population present president public housing RAINS rehabilitation relocation rent rental housing requirements residential section 220 SHISHKIN slum clearance slums and blight square foot statement Street Subcommittee on Housing SULLIVAN TALLE tion United States Conference urban redevelopment Urban Redevelopment Authority urban renewal program WAGNER Washington WIDNALL York City
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Página 405 - The Congress hereby declares that the general welfare and security of the Nation and the health and living standards of its people...
Página 405 - ... a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family, thus contributing to the development and redevelopment of communities and to the advancement of the growth, wealth, and security of the Nation.
Página 319 - Hyatt, who each severally acknowledged the signing of the foregoing Articles of Incorporation to be his free act and deed, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. Witness my hand and official seal on the day and year last aforesaid.
Página 119 - Congress and the courts, and all that was gathered there. And I felt that the sun in all its course could not look down...
Página 119 - I went to visit a friend in the country, a modest man, with a quiet country home. It was just a simple, unpretentious house, set about with big trees, encircled in meadow and field rich with the promise of harvest.
Página 405 - The policy to be followed in attaining the national housing objective hereby established shall be: (1) Private enterprise shall be encouraged to serve as large a part of the total need...
Página 211 - I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of resolution...
Página 119 - So the night came down on that house, falling gently as the wing from an unseen dove. And the old man, while a startled bird called from the forest and the trees thrilled with the cricket's cry, and the stars were falling from the sky, called the family around him and took the Bible from the table and called them to their knees. The little baby hid in the folds of its mother's dress while he closed the record of that day by calling down God's blessing on that simple home. While I gazed, the vision...
Página 119 - There was his old father, an aged, trembling man, but happy in the heart and home of his son. And as they started to their home, the hands of the old man went down on the young man's shoulder, laying there the unspeakable blessing of the honored and grateful father and ennobling it with the knighthood of the fifth commandment. And...
Página 397 - A piecemeal attack on slums simply will not work — occasional thrusts at slum pockets in one section of a city will only push slums to other sections unless an effective program exists for attacking the entire problem of urban decay. Programs for slum prevention, for rehabilitation of existing houses and neighborhoods, and for demolition of wornout structures and areas must advance along a broad unified front to accomplish the renewal of our towns and cities. This approach must be vigorously carried...