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The president's response was long in coming, and when it did come, evasive and to say the least, disappointing to those who waited for it. ^{and vastly different from his earlier call to struggle} No extra monies would be available in supplemental funds. Words, not actions, met the request for housing for displaced low and moderate income Americans. HUD estimated that only 25,000 dwelling units would be available in 1972, or feeer than one city, Washington D.C. could use today.

"...The current state of the nation", the Caucus said, "which may be mildly inconvenient to the majority of white America, is for the ^black brown, red, and poor... A true crisis which approaches the intolerable. Given this situation, business as usual, bureaucracy as usual, is simply not good enough." *

Given that statement, it is interesting to note that the history of tenant agitation and organization parallels the history and

*Report to the Nation, The Congressional Black Caucus, May 24, 1971