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up in the Hunter's point area. Yeah, well, that's very interesting. We saw a nice a nice housing development earlier this morning, and there's obviously that some of the housing developments we just looked at, uh, going to be turned down. And I think it's a question of

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how the government develops working with the city and the federal government. Develop a new housing. You weren't too pleased with what you saw at Hunters Point, where you say, Well, the particular housing unit we visited was very nice. There was some others that were obviously dilapidated

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and run down. We didn't expect to be pleased because those houses and Waters point were built to take care of the shipyard workers during World War Two on. We're never supposed to be used for over four years. I'm glad to say they're going to be turned

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down, replaced by good housing. You fellas look pretty bipartisan today their way. Murphy's in the Kennedys have been going together for years way, way that the poor gaining power through the recognition off the importance and development of our own communities way. The youth of the Hunters

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Point community are concerned with the situation which we found upon about a week or so before continued funding came up. Certain activities have been exceptional. Operation Head Start in remedial reading programs have strong acceptance and proven results. Legal services are the heaviest demand that the target

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area centers and both the legal and family counseling activities had larger and apparently more successful case handling 1966 than was projected. Other ideas have not worked as well. From our experience, it is apparent that the representatives of some external agencies conducting programs within the city of

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Oakland occasionally failed to consider the structure and the administrative organization of the community. We in Oakland are insistent that programs be designed in such a manner as to fit within our legally established administrative structure. While we do so insist our efforts and our desires, or sometimes

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thwarted by external pressure and were threatened with loss of the program unless we accept and operate under procedures which in essence, bypass local government well, what what part of the programs what aspects of the oh Yogi support then you think I support highest priority, in my

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estimation, goes to the educational portions, job development portions of the Ohio program, the second priority goes to the services phase of the program the legal aids the, uh, the health services, this type of thing. And in my estimation, the lowest priority goes to the neighborhood organization.

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Now, for instance, what? What is it that you cut down on what aspects of the program you mean in our present O E D. C. Well, in their last budget, they were directed by Ohio to cut out the educational phases. Would you cut out? What would

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you cut out or cut down? What would I cut out right now? Or it would be the neighborhood organization. I think this is where actually we're wasting our money. I happen to have a sincere belief in the inherent right of the port to participate to the

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maximum feasible extent in any and all efforts to win the tragedy of poverty. I can see where so called creative conflict has brought the poor into dialogue on the great issues that confront us. But I have also experienced in maximum feasible participation. A federal government mandate

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so broad on with guidelines so vague has to make every attempt of local implementation a new object of distrust