Fun with ProQuest: Bates Street gets shafted
I started a new search "Bates Street" between 1950 to 1990. I decided to focus on Bates because of some of the rehab projects that were to take place in the first Marion Barry admin on the street.One 1969 article got my attention and I'm just going to quote it:
...said its first ghetto aid effort was expected to be in the Bates Street Project -- part of the Shaw redevelopment plan.Ronald Russo was the spokesman for the RLA. The RLA was the Redevelopment Land Agency. PIC was the People's Involvement Corp, a federally funded group. Ghetto and slum are words the Washington Post used [past tense] to describe our neighborhood. They just use ghetto now and then these days.
Later a spokesman.... said in Washington that the initial phase of the PIC plan will probably be shifted from Bates Street to a block of 8th and 9th Streets nw., bounded by S and T.
Russo said the RLA now feels it would be better to start in that block, with 25 houses on 8th Street and 20 on 9th Street.
Addition:
I've waded through several "Crime and Justice" articles to get to the next quote and let's say, I'm depressed.
Anywho, in a Jun 1971 article:
Two years ago, at a convention in Atlantic City, the league pledged $7 million toward the Bates Street project. "This soon became hopelessly involved in government red tape and citizens' indecision," league president Thornton W. Owen said recently, "so that any tangible activities in this area in the near future seems highly improbable."
Bibliography:
All articles from the Washington Post
"S&Ls Pledge $7 Million For Homes; Rehabilitation" by S. Oliver Goodman. June 1, 1969. p. 125
"Firms To Fund Housing; S&Ls to Build Huge Project For City Poor" by William H. Jones June 10, 1971. p. B1
Labels: BACA, neighborhood history
posted by Mari @ 24.4.07
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