This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974, by the Assistant Administrator, Office of Equal Opportunity, City Housing and Development Administration, advocates a policy which combines ghetto enrichment with programs designed to encourage integration of substantial numbers of Negroes into the…

The urban impacts of the Program for Better Jobs and Income, the recent but unsuccessful attempt to reform the welfare system, are analyzed in this paper. The proposed results of this program indicate that these urban impacts would have been minimal, but consistent with an urban policy that seeks to improve the economic viability of distressed…