Gum Springs' Struggle For a Better Life Homes Replace Shacks, But Job, Housing Needs Persist
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Title
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Gum Springs' Struggle For a Better Life Homes Replace Shacks, But Job, Housing Needs Persist
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Date Created
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7/13/1982
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Creator
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By: Shobhana Kabal
The Washington Post
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Description
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Coverage on the continuing loss of funds for community programs. The author points out that in the coming year the Saunders B. Moon Community Action Association would lose close to $75,000 - nearly 30% of their funds, while the Housing Development Corporation side of SBM had already lost 50% of their funding. Continual conservative shifts to cut federal funding greatly reenforced the problems of slow violence by seeking to cut funding to public works and public projects particularly for communities like Gum Springs that had used these to greatly build up their community.
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Index/Partial Transcript
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"Gum Springs leaders say they are angered by the opposition to the West Ford project, which would offer better housing to residents still living in substandard dwellings and would allow former residents to return to the area. Civic leader Brown described those who wish to block the project as 'a handful of whites who've just moved in about two years ago' and do not know or care about the community's history or concerns."
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Research Themes
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Gum Springs
Saunders B. Moon
Community Action Program
Gum Springs Civic Association
Community Action Programs
Housing
Funding cuts
Slow Violence
Displacement in place
Community organization
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Type
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Newspaper
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Researcher Name
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Jacob Connelly
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Bibliographic Citation
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Kanal, Shobhana. “Gum Springs’ Struggle For a Better Life Homes Replace Shacks, But Job, Housing Needs Persist.” The Washington Post, July 13, 1982. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/07/14/gum-springs-struggle-for-a-better-life-homes-replace-shacks-but-job-housing-needs-persist/a497ad78-f49a-4cf8-b00c-c9609ba3d4cb/.
