ABSTRACT
According to the author, Dean Dumpson fails to distinguish between the Model Cities Program enacted in 1966 (and the supplemental funds it provides in addition to established Federal urban aid programs) and the 1968 Omnibus Housing and Urban Development Act. The first is a demonstration program-sizable but still geared to cities willing to meet specific performance standards that sharply upgrade the quality of urban life. The second is a national commitment to volume production-the construction of 6 million federally assisted housing units for poor and moderate-income families in ten years at a rate ten times greater than ever achieved before, effectively eliminating urban slums. But, basically, the author and Dumpson are both determined that the pace of national assistance continue to expand; that new attention be given to the problems of migration and welfare; that an effective pattern of metropolitan social justice be realized.
