The slums are indeed badmorally. physically. and aesthetically. Along with our treatment of the Negroes. LatinAmericans. and migrant labor. they are among the biggest blots upon our relatively prosperous and productive society. The slums are now spreading more rapidly than they are being reduced. The modest program of slum clearance and urban renewal. enacted in 1949. is only now being carried out. Only halfaround 400.000 unitshave been built of the 810.000 units of public housing which 10 years ago we plannee to construct by In the meantime. the slums are spreading and getting worse. At the same time that upper and middle income families are moving into the suburbs. displaced migrants from the countryboth Negroes and whitesare moving into the cities and being forced into the slums. The cities are. in general. awake to their problems but suffer under many handicaps in dealing with them. Their tax base is shrinking. they generally lack home rule in tapping new sources of revenue. and they tend to be controlled by rurally dominated State legislatures in which the cities are grossly underrepresented.
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