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VIII-"I Lived in a Slum" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram and Sun
Most of New York City's slum dwellers live in ignorance and fear.During my "life" in the tenement jungles, I talked to scores of tenants who were completely unaware of their basic rights under housing laws. And because of this ignorance, they are exploited and housed in quarters intolerable for decent human beings.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1959-06-30
X-"I Lived in a Slum" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram and Sun
The city administration admitted today it had failed to meet its slum problem successfully and that blighted areas were spreading faster than rehabilitation.In the wake of a series of articles portraying horrendous conditions in the city's slums, this newspaper assigned a team of reporters to ask city officials about what they intended to do about it.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1959-07-02
XII-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
The Erie County Department of Social Welfare has fixed rent ceilings it is willing to pay for welfare recipients. However, because of housing shortages in Negro neighborhoods, exceptions frequently are made. A single caseload may have between 20 and 30 exceptions.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-20