Capitol Ideas/Homesteading on the Liberal Plantation
Bethell, Tom
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...Eligible buyers will be permitted to earn no more than 80 percent of the area's average income...
...Marilyn reckoned it would be a year, perhaps eighteen months, before the renovation could possibly be completed...
...But if she opposed it, she could kill the idea...
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...She told me that she had not seen Kimi Gray for some time, implying that they didn't entirely see eye to eye on housing...
...She believes this should be tripled...
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...Which popular television shows consistently slam conservatives...
...K imi was stationed massively behind her desk, with a plate of carry-out chicken in front of her...
...Tenants who buy units will have to sell them back either to the co-op or the public housing authority...
...But he was also troubled because "what was envisioned as a way station [i.e., public housing] became permanent...
...I guessed she had been behind her desk all along...
...Vento went on to say that "you have to give the public housing authorities the ability to be responsible for the dollars that are spent...
...was at first "confused," according to one account...
...I want this to be stopped before it really gets started...
...A deputation of public housing residents outside on the House steps urged him to vote against Morrison...
...At any rate Bull claims that Rooney said, "Blacks have watered down their genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children...
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...In the private sector, he said, owners "become part electrician, part plumber, part painter...
...My guess is that first she has to get the property renovated, the sale completed, the tenants returned...
...Which far-left (and pro-communist) groups supported Hollywood's Housing Now...
...I asked her how she felt about Dick Armey's voucher provision...
...But an attempt to remove the Morrison provision was defeated in the House...
...To remain in tenant-managed public housing, occupants will either have to stay poor (to remain eligible for subsidy), or buy units with resale restrictions...
...That is something that Mr...
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...The danger is that tenants will lack an incentive to buy units...
...I realized she was walking deftly across a political tightrope...
...Bruce Vento then said: "We have plumbing problems...
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...And I'm going to be here when it's carried out...
...He added that this was "anti-poor" and "anti-minority...
...A young black man named Mike hovered uneasily in the background...
...If it hadn't been for the Muslims, we would be nowhere...
...Currently, housing subsidies consume only about one percent ($12 billion) of the federal budget (up from $5.7 billion in 1980...
...But we disagree about everything...
...According to Armey, the key congressmen to resist tenant ownership when the relevant sections of the 1987 law were debated in the House were Barney Frank (D-Mass...
...they will be permitted to buy their units when they return...
...What opinion leaders say about the TV, etc...
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...she sees no sign of a "nakedness problem...
...It's because we conceived of it...
...They drop out of school early, do drugs and get pregnant...
...We have carpentry problemsthat need to be addressed...
...And Bruce Vento, by Tom Bethell he said, "actually argued that these people don't have the ability to tend to their own affairs...
...Families have been moved out to accommodate the reconstruction...
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...The Kenilworth-Parkside project was only a few hundred yards away...
...The area seemed deserted, although one small section of the project was still inhabited...
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...Morrison that would tie the resident management association to the existing union contracts of the public housing authority...
...In other words, if a 500-unit public housing project is sold to its tenants, the local housing authority would not have to build or renovate 500 more units, but would be permitted to issue 500 new vouchers, which can then be used by low-income people to defray the cost of housing in the private sector...
...In either event, they will be encouraged to stay on at Kenilworth-Parkside, which will receive from HUD a "project-based" block of Section 8 housing vouchers, covering all rental and utility costs for seven years...
...replied: "These restrictions are going to prohibit resident management corporations from hiring low-income, hardcore unemployed inner-city residents from performing onsite maintenance in their own projects...
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...Notice the phrase, "so as not to impose any new rights . . . on the tenants...
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...Among other things, bunching them together makes it easier to truck them to the polls on election day...
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...We drove slowly past the low-rise buildings of the project, which covers several blocks...
...But resale restrictions written into the law by liberal congressmen may prevent buyers from realizing the enhanced value of these renovated units...
...Fauntroy, although a co-sponsor, was not enthusiastic about voucher replacement when I asked him...
...He told me two or three times of his "firm conviction that the private sector cannot and will not build housing for low-and moderate-income people...
...That has landed Rooney in hot water with black leaders as well as homosexuals, and it has done him no good to deny that he referred to blacks...
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...I am not sure it can stand up to the scrutiny of the committee...
...Project-based" means that these vouchers will not be "portable...
...Although presumably expecting no visitors she was all dressed up in a smart royal blue dress with big earrings and masses of costume jewelry...
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...Almost all the buildings were boarded up, and although construction crews were at work on a few buildings, most of the structures were receiving no attention at all...
...Armey said he thought the provision "was designed to keep the unions involved in public housing...
...Tenants who move away from Kenilworth-Parkside will move to the bottom of the voucher waiting list in any new jurisdiction...
...Thus Kimi Gray will have low-income tenants with the right to manage their Tom Bethel...
...but subsidies and resale restrictions might keep them wards of the state...
...If she told a reporter she supported the idea, she would be seen as siding with "right-wing Republicans...
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...I think on its face it is obvious that they cannot do that...
...Bruce Morrison himself defended the provision on the floor with the argument that its language "was carefully chosen so as not to impose any new rights or restrictions on the tenants, but to preserve the rights that already exist for the [union] employees...
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...She repeated this a couple of times...
...We made our way down a footpath, and Marilyn went ahead into the Kenilworth-Parkside office...
...A contingent of public-housing residents did turn out to vote against Morrison in 1988, I was told...
...Armey quoted Vento to this effect before a group of public housing residents...
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...But the liberals have a lot invested in herding poor (overwhelmingly black) people together into what Kimi Gray has called the new plantations, and keeping them there at taxpayers' expense...
...Another problem written into the 1987 Housing Act, and not generally understood by conservatives, is that for each unit of public housing sold to a resident management corporation, a replacement unit must be provided, whether by "production, acquisition, or rehabilitation of vacant public housing units...
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...Then hewent through the door and the union lobbyists beset him...
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...Two things I don't like," she said...
...On the resale restrictions, he recalled, Frank was "the most articulate person on the floor feigning compassion on the issue...
...I had repeatedly tried to reach Kimi, to no avail...
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...Leftist Actor John Randolph MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ne afternoon I drove out to Kenilworth-Parkside with Marilyn Melkonian, who was deputy assistant secretary for housing in the Carter Administration, and is now president of a company called Telesis, which (she told me) "combines public and private investment to lower the cost of housing for ordinary people...
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...She waved aside my suggestion that there were problems of resale restrictions or union strangleholds or one-for-one replacements...
...The president of CBS News, in announcing Rooney's three-month trip to Siberia, asseverated that "I have made it clear that CBS News cannot tolerate such remarks or anything that approximates such comments, since they in no way reflect the views of this organization...
...Marilyn is a liberal's liberal, believing that there are very few "basic needs" (and certainly not housing) that the private market can meet "one hundred percent" without government subsidy...
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...were transferred to a tenant management corporation, presided over by Kimi Gray...
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...That's because I don't talk to nosy reporters...
...His error has been to speak candidly...
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...Along with almost the entire Black Caucus (including Conyers, Crockett, Dixon, Dymally, Savage, and Stokes), Dellums voted with the unions...
...A rmey mentioned another problem that I was not aware of—a provision put into the law by Rep...
...When it came time for the vote, Rep...
...I've brought a friend of mine...
...and Bruce Vento (D-Minn...
...Clothing seemed to be one of the few...
...When shecontrived to talk about it without saying whether she supported it or not, my impression of her changed completely...
...A ringing phone and a nosy reporter...
...We drove by Paradise Manor, a bleak, 670-unit "garden apartment" complex built in the late 1960s with a low-interest federal government loan...
...Nor is he helped by the fact that we have only Bull's testimony that Rooney spoke of blacks...
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...But according to Stuart Butler, the Heritage Foundation's director of domestic policy studies, it is the changeover from management by the local housing authority to tenant management that will make all the difference...
...If broadcasters do not, their problems with free speech will get worse...
...But you have always received a good press, Kimi...
...Here Telesis would be developing 250 single family homes, with capital loans provided directly by the federal and D.C...
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...But they are beginning to get nervous...
...Hi, Kimi," I heard her say as she stood in the door...
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...Meanwhile, he is co-sponsoring, with Rep...
...More accurately, "so as not to give them any new rights...
...The congressman who today remains closely involved with these issues is Dick Armey, Republican of Texas, first elected to Congress in 1984, and responsible for putting together the successful military base-closing measure last year...
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...There is no other evidence that Rooney mentioned race and the New York Post has published similar remarks by Rooney about school dropouts that carefully avoid the matter of race, but this will do Rooney no good either...
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...CAPITOL IDEAS HOMESTEADING ON THE LIBERAL PLANTATION T he story so far (Capitol Ideas, TAS, 1 February 1990): About eighteen months ago, the keys of ownership to the 464-unit Kenilworth-Parkside public housing project in Washington, D.C...
...We bumped and rolled our way across D.C:s pot-holed, Third World streets in Marilyn's snazzy Jeep, a 10-mile safari from her Georgetown office out to Parkside, which is east of the Anacostia River...
...But the possibility that they may start voting Republican in the secrecy of the voting booth explains why a number of liberal congressmen now feel that they have to pay lip-service to tenant management (while fighting off the voucher system that threatens to break up the public housing plantations...
...Black (and liberal) congressmen will probably continue to side with the money (the unions) rather than the votes (the project residents) because, for the time being, they remain confident that people in housing projects won't vote Republican...
...The project is now being renovated with HUD funds (possibly $35 million...
...Then, when she has her troops lined up (and the same is true in other projects across the land) she will be in a stronger position to go back to Congress and demand that the law be quietly changed, permitting them to run their own plantation without further interference...
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...Walter Fauntroy of D.C., the (1990) Urban Homestead Act, the principal provision of which will circumvent the problem of one-for-one replacement of public housing units by permitting the use of housing vouchers to meet the replacement requirement...
...Tenant management, said Armey, is predicated on the right of poor people "to put their own sweat equity into their own homes, just as you and I do...
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...Some of the occupants receive housing subsidies from HUD...
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...Now, as we do not really know what Rooney said—unless you take- Bull as infallible—and thus cannot know what remarks might "approximate" Rooney's remarks, my guess is that commentary—at least on CBS —is going to become even more inane...
...Thus speaks the voice of contemporary liberalism...
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...And so they should not be permitted to try...
...According to a minority staffer on the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development, the congressman most adamantly opposed to this measure is Henry Gonzalez of Texas, the chairman of the subcommittee, who believes that each unit sold must be replaced by a "hard" unit...
...How much money the entertainment community has poured into the campaign warchests of liberal Congressmen and Senators...
...The same would be true of anything she might say on resale restrictions...
...Most of us could not afford to own our homes if we couldn't go in and fix our own leaky faucets or replace light switches...
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...The good news is that the purchasers will become true 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1990 property owners, with clear title and no resale restrictions...
...A better policy is to stand by the First Amendment...
...own project and permission to buy units within it...
...Are the tenants that are living in assisted housing, are they the skilled mechanics that can take on these tasks of doing the electrical rewiring of a multicomplex housing unit...
...Are they the glaziers that will hang out there and put a piece of glass into a window...
...According to David K. Groo, the program manager for Robert Woodson's National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, this "one-for-one" replacement provision will "double the number of units" available to low-income families under the HUD umbrella (because the old units will remain subject to low-income eligibility rules...
...This is a liberal area...
Vol. 23 • April 1990 • No. 4
