Black Caucus' series of recommendations to President Nixon, Doc 2 of 2, no date [Fall 1971?]

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Whether its for President or ward leader,

It has to be a politics that works for you.

You can work for a single uniform, national law, a uniform code, a uniform contract between landlord + tenant, you can work to elect people to state legislators and city councils who represent your point of view.

Just make sure its h not a landlord.

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- 2 out of 3 families earning $6,000 or less pay more than 25% of their income to their land lord.

- 2 out of 5 families with incomes less than $6,000 pay more than 35%

- 70% of the households with women over 65 paid over 35%

- Approx. 25 million inner city houses are below city code.

- In 1944, Nathan Straus, first Chairman of the U.S. Housing Authority, wrote that public housing could be expanded "so that, in a few years, every American family will have a healthful + liveable home.

Over 25 years later, one-sixth of the nation still lives in dangerous, sub-standard slum housing.

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only 5 states have laws that require a land lord to provide "a place fit for the habitation of human beings."

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a minimum standard for Federal funding would require compliance with all provisions of the 1968 Fair Housing Act and title VI of the 1969 Civil Rights Act

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