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Bush Has A '60s Flashback

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Paul Shigley
19 May 2005 - 5:00am

The Bush administration is backing away from urban programs that Republicans of a generation ago supported.

Federal urban policy has an odd way of evolving, as evidenced by President Bush's plans for the Community Development Block Grant and Section 8 housing programs. Bush's plan to re-establish federal control over community and economic development programs "represents an eerie mirror image of the Johnson administration's original vision of urban aid."

Full Story: Proposed Federal Urban Policy Shows Signs of a '60s Flashback
Source: California Planning and Development Report, May 18, 2005
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