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Correspondence On past laurels Brooklyn, N.Y. To the Editors: Gordon Zahn's "Viet- nam --A Memorial Day Postscript" [July 13] offered an insightful analysis of President Reagan's...
...At the same time we have an unemployment rate of 11 percent and have not recovered from the recent recession (caused in great part by Reagan's first two years in govern- ment...
...To the Editors: The salient distinction between "people who are homeless" and "homelessness" is that the former are real, while the latter is merely an abstraction...
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...Yet "unemployment" is listed by the authors among the four major causes of homelessness...
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...In reality, most of the poor have always lived in housing vacated by those who have moved to better-quality shelter, which, in turn, has been vacated by those whose incomes are a few notches higher, and so forth...
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...Perhaps the pending elections in .both our coun- tries will see a significant change in lead- ership...
...MAR.lOP-dE HOPE AND JAMES YOUNG Canada wry Thunder Bay, Ont...
...To the Editors: Gordon Zahn's "Vietnam --A Memorial Day Postscript" [July 13] offered an insightful analysis of President Reagan's "attempt at revisionist history...
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...Recognizing that my own Liberal gov- ernment has not curbed its own spending sufficiently, Mr...
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...Hope and Young seem to think that there is something called "'low-income housing" which the government must fi- nance if the poor are to be housed...
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...But the elegiac last paragraph leads me to ask whether some effort should not be made to gather the testimonies of people who participated in those Catholic Ac- tion movements -- before it is too late, as it is for Dorothy Dohen...
...Obvi-ously, displacement does not necessarily result in homelessness, but we never learn how many of the displaced actually become homeless, or the average length of time they remain so...
...In New York City alone, thousands of struc- turally sound buildings have been aban- doned a~ liabilities by owners caught be- tween increased taxes, utilities, and maintenance costs on the one hand, and rent control and non-paying tenants exploiting the legal system to delay evic- tion on the other...
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...Commonweal: 450 its public policy -- denial of $60 million to rehabilitate and operate shelters -- that would mean denying each homeless person, on average, the exorbitant sum of $200...
...To the Editors: Thank you for printing the graceful and moving tribute to Dorothy Dohen by Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, S.J...
...Some of them are inclined to think that nothing was right before Vatican II, and so are bound, I think, to misunderstand the Council...
...This situation is that much more exasperating when one reads that much of your economic re- covery and low:ering of the unemployCommonweal: 478 merit ~te to 8 percent rests on increased defense and arms expenditures...
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...They were and are a precious legacy, and their witness should not be lost...
...And central planning in- cludes planning to prevent social disas- ters like homelessness...
...Given their view that Americans must "change their basic social philosophy (Continued on page 477) Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
...For example, we are told that one of the "most widespread factors in homelessness" is "displacement" which "afflicts 2.5 million Americans annually...
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...The process is, of course, impeded by the demolition, abandonment, and con- version of rental housing stock which the authors believe necessitates government intervention, but which are often, if not usually, attributable to some kind of gov- ernment action or policy...
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...The authors state that the majority of the "chronically homeless" --whose number, if known, is not disclosed -are "simply unemployable in today's economy...
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...When we toured Scandinavia in 1982 we could not find homeless people, except for a few alcoholics in train stations...
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...Ash's comments about unemployment in Western Europe in fact refer to the Common Market (EEC) countries...
...So much for a lesson on international economics...
...For public policy purposes, it is crucial to know the number of people whose lack of shelter is so prolonged as to endanger life or health, and the reasons they lack it...
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...This imbalance occurs because inter- national money traders sell off Canadian dollars to buy American dollars...
...Ironically, much of the blame for this imbalance of funds is a result of your president's fiscal and arms policies...
...To the Editors: I very much enjoyed David Noble's article, "The Oxford leg- acy" [July 13...
...Ash suggest that we tolerate the slums described by Jacob Riis that led to tuberculosis, fires, and a host of other social hazards...
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...Not only do they give no evidence for this asssertion, they fail to say how any of the 8.7 million unem- ployed are, or have ever been, homeless...
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...As you can expect, our govern- ment does not want to raise the interest rate which will stifle the slow recovery we are experiencing...
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...Employ- ers who offer work to illegal immigrants stand in violation of the law...
...As an Anglican priest I greatly appreciated the accurate descrip- tion of the Oxford Movement, and the assessment of its influence within both the Anglican and Roman Communions...
...Eloquently and persuasively, he observed: "When people long for freedom, they don't climb over the wall into East Germany, or seek refuge in Cuba or the Soviet Union...
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...Our nation, "conceived in liberty," has a long reputation of offer- ing sanctuary to those who seek it...
...Reagan failed to say in his emotional message is that, under his administration, the welcome mat is being pulled in, bit by bit...
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...However, we are also told that there are 2 million homeless and that one-third of them are the deinstitutionalized mentally ill...
...Unemploy- ment today in Sweden is 2.7 percent...
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...This "trickle-up" process has been repeated in virtually every community, including Harlem, which has not always been predominantly black and/or poor...
...In the past, it is true, various ethnic groups recycled, the housing that trickled down to them from above...
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...The fear that rent con- trol will further erode profit margins prompts many rental unit owners to seek condominium conversions...
...Ac- tually, 90 percent of Sweden's produc- tive forces are privately owned, a far higher proportion than in Britain, Italy, France, and South Africa, that bastion of free enterprise that the Reagan adminis- tration is fostering...
...The fact is that low-income housing has been unprofitable --on its own --for decades...
...has a strong dollar, which is attract- ing West European (EEC) money to the U.S...
...way's unemployment was 1.8 percent, Sweden's was 2.3 percent and Finland's was 4.1 percent...
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