Title

Va. Ghetto Reels From Funds Cut: Fairfax County Ghetto Reels from U.S. Funds Cut

Repository

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

Date Created

4/1/1973

Creator

By: Jospeh D. Whitaker
The Washington Post

Description

Article on the impacts of the Nixon administrations freeze on low-income housing programs, and the Office of Economic Opportunity that had assisted Gum Springs during the late 1960s and the early 1970s. These Community Action Programs had been utilized by Gum Springs for funding to build up their community.

Index/Partial Transcript

"Since 1965, the successes at Gum Springs include:
- The bulldozing over of the dozen shanties and their replacement with Gabriel Plaza. A number of narrow muddy streets have also been widened and paved to serve these new houses.
- For the first time, some streets have sidewalks curbs, gutters and storm drainage systems.
- Gum Springs has a community park and the only public swimming pool built and operated by the county.
- The county purchased Drew Smith School from the school system and converted [cut off]"

Research Themes

Gum Springs
Saunders B. Moon
Community Action Program
Community Action Programs
Housing
Land Pooling
Slow Violence
Displacement in place
Community organization
Community resistance

Type

Newspaper

Researcher Name

Jacob Connelly

Relation

Blacks Pool Their Lands to Replace Substandard Homes

Fairfax County's Gum Springs in Line For First Suburban Poverty Grant

Bibliographic Citation

Whitaker, Joseph D. “Va. Ghetto Reels From Funds Cut: Fairfax County Ghetto Reels from U.S. Funds Cut.” The Washington Post, April 1, 1973, sec. Metro Local News.