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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Washington. D.C. 20503-0001
Wednesday, June 18, 1997
LEGISLATIVE REFERRAL MEMORANDUM
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Thank you for "volunteering" your counsel.
things to consider:
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Should this document be more retrospective -- the nitty,
gritty of what the report says (which [~ reality is more bad than
good) -- or should it be more prospectiye -- let the proposed
agenda draw the connections to what is heeded to help our cities?
I'm a little concerned if POTUS just talks about the good news
that the report (even in its milked down version) would be
inconsistent.
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I realize the prospective agenda's title "A City Homestead
Initiative for 2000" is bit over the top.
However, we want to
provide some meaning to what the C(lgendashould do and we want to
capture the imagination of people}(at tbe W.H., in the press,
local governments, etc.) with the~conce~t of investing in our
cities and how that plays with the race issue (crit~ts say if you
really want to address race, you);ave to address vn~e~·;iying
economic issues for the urban poff) _ Is it too my.ch~ '·~;
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POTUS will surely make news by merely saying th~t there is
good news and bad news about Ameriqa's p:i.ties --and maybe.that
is all the W.H. is going to want tjsay~ ~·I assume people will
not really focus on this speech un~il thi\s weekend -- for good
reasons· (G-7). Given that some. cynics cr:i.,ti'cijzed POTUS's ~peech.
on Saturday for lack of "solutions, •i I warl't to makE: sure w~ have
something on the table of sul?stanc~ ~here if. the)deci,?ion is made
that the speech needs to have some r a t .
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Finally, the rrospective agenda is primarily ~-related
While t~e city~report lis;i's s.even subject ·areas for an
age: a with countless programs from . 'ach agency, this concept
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is divided into five areas wi·~ t~~ programs each.
I did
this for several reasons:
l) Coher~ncy '(5 points seems easier to
conceptualize than severt points -- and it has!no negative
Biblical connotations);
Newness -- the program I listed our
much more new and in mos~ cases have y~t to be announ<?'ed (thus,
there would be some newli;value to !the' s;peech and 1 not JUSC
recycled ideas); and 3) I just don't know other agencies'
programs well enough to explain t:hern. What. should we do here?
How important is it that the age!f'da!; be "new/fresh'' and/or include
representative proposals from each relev2p.nt agen~ies?
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The HOD State of the Cities Report ~hows that therJ is much
good news for America's cities.
The Clirl.ton Administration's
one-two punch of effective economic policies -- wh~ch have helped
to lift many cities -- and targeted urban initiatives, including
Empowerment Zones, Community Oriented Policing, Homeownership
initiatives and investments in education, has made a s~gnificant
difference in reversing two decades of decline .in America's
cities.
Today, because of the President's lead~rship America's
cities are better off: wages are up; the fiscalj health of city
governments is stronger; and.crime is down.
While these are positive and hopeful trends, the HUD State
of the Cities Report also points to some deepr underlying
challeneges.
The report finds.three troubling trends in our
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Not enough job opportunities exist in the cities.
Poverty is rising for the central city poor.
The middle class continu~s to migrate from the cities.
These trends call for an aggressive, city-focused effort.
In response, the Clinton Administration has developed a
specifically tailored, second term city initiative entitled, A
City Ho~estead Initiative for the Year 2000, to address the
challenges facing America's qities as we en~er the 21st Century.
ln 1863, President Abraham Lincoln ~igned:into law the
Homestead Act of 1862, which fostered economic growth in what was
then the undeveloped, rural\. west ,by allowing citi~.~ns to claim
160 acres of land just by l~ving~on it. The Homestead Act made
America stronger by building an .conomic infrast.r:ucture .
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goal as the Homestead Act of 186~. . The ilii tia-~iue is a
comprehensive, five point plan designed to.str,ngthen the
economic infras~ructure of America's ~cities.. Tpe initiative is
grounded in the principles developed 1in t-he Empowqrment Zones -bottom-up, community-based, results-oriehted, values-driven.
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Making America's Cities Safer.-- impn)v£p·g public
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To promote
city homeownership and help stop che middle class
exodus from America's cities, President C,linton will
reduce mortgage insurance premiums by 25 ~asis points
for first-time home~buyers in central cities only.
This reduction of approximately $200 .when coupled with
three other similar such reductions eqacted since the
prescient took office will result in $11,400 in savings
to home-buyers on the average FHA mortgagE\·of $95,000.
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• Homeownership Empowerment Vouchers:
To help low
income families residing in urba~.a~ea who are able to
accept the responsibilities of hb1eownership cannot do
so because they are caught up in a spiral of renLing
unable to accumulate savings or use their rental
certificates and vouchers to bui~d up equity -- the
Administration, working with Senator D'' Amato: and
Representatives Lazio and Kennedy, is callin~ for
legislation that would enable families to purchase
their own homes by using Section 8 subsidie~·to support
debt service on the mortgage.
The Homeownership
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• 15 New City Empower.menc Zones: To create greater job
op~ortunities fo,:r- J]mericas cities, Pfesident Clinton,
bu1lding on the success of the Empowerment Zonds i
program, is propl,sing to add 15 more Etftpowerment lzones.
The Empowermel)t !Zones/Enterprise Communities initiative
will stimulate job opportu.pities and revitalization in
distressed neighbor7oods a~ross the country.
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To create
greater job opportunities for Americas cities,
President Clinton, building on th~ ·.8¥-tccess,: of che
Enterprise Commun~ti~e;tprogram, iEi pt'oposilng) t.o add 50
more Enterpl7ise Commun~ties. The Enterprise
Communities in~tiative ·avtill stim~late'r.job qpportunities
and revitalization in d~stresse~neigfiborhcibds across
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incentive for private employers to. lyire welfare
recipients, President Clinton creat~d a tax credit
which will allow an empl9yer co ci'aim a cr~dit of up to
SO%' on of the first: $10, ooo lin wages ~aid during a year
t:.o former welfare recipient.
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communities need to fight crime and drugs. in public
housing, the Administration pas ·:ck:-eated ah enf.orcement
and prevention strategy to fightt,crime al)d dru~s in
public housing. The program, building orl th!= success
of "One Strike and You're Out\'', 'itntensffies law
enforcement efforts in public housing authorities
across ·the county and complements chese enforcement:
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officers who agree to liv~ iq the communities where
they police. ThJ administrati~n's goal is to place
1000 police officers into homej under this program.
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CLEANING UP AMERICA'S CITIES
• Cleaning Up 'Contaminated Proprr~ii..es :· to help clean
up contaminated property in cities so it can be .
redeveloped for commercial uses,. the Administratton
will commit! $125 miilion of EPA junding fbr asse~sment,
clean-up ana job-train1ng.
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ContaJninated Properties; To f~cilitate economic
development on property formerly contaminated)• the
Administratio.n will make! available $1.00 million in HUD
economic development funchn;g grants anqf $400 million in
HUD loan guarantees over foiur years.
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To Mayors Conference
By Susan Schmidt
w.-~hin~rton Pn~l
StaiiWntt'r
President Clinton will propose
what officials describe as his administration's first comprehensive urban
agenda in an address about innercity problems today to the U.S. Con-.
ference of Mayors.
Clinton's speech to 300 urban executives in San Fran cisco willlav out
several modest initiatives inte~ded
to help police officers and low-income families buv homes in cities.
Much of the president's focus .,;ll be
on how some of his proposals before
Congress on housing. wellare, education and the environment can
mesh to help low-income city residents.
More important than any specific
policy proposal. administration officials said. is Clinton's promotion of
an overall urban strategy. 111e president will seek claim to issues important to traditional Democrats agitating to the left of the Clinton White
House.
The president will cite a new report on Amercian cities prepared
over the last six months by Andrew
M. Cuomo. Housing and Urban Development secretary. The study
found that while crime Jnd unemployment are down in cities, most
new jobs-including jobs for people
coming off shrinking wellare rollsare in the suburbs.
Cuomo said yesterday that the
administration believes in taking a
"holistic approach" to solving urban
problems. Inner cities need economic development. he said. which is
fostered by a stable population of
homeowners. who in turn require .
that crime be ,kept in clu•ck. "For
these diilcrent programs to work,
they have to be interconnected and
interrelated." he said. ·
"The articulation and identification of an urban agenda is in and of
itself a major accomplishment."
Cuomo said.
Many items in the president's urban plan are already disparate elements of the budget agreement.
such as the nearly $2 billion in
proposed tax incentives for businesses that agree to ~lean up old industrial sites known as "brownfields."
Among the other components of
the president's plan for cities:
PRESIDENT CLINTON
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• Expand· the reach of community
policing by ofiering up to 2.000 police
officers HUD-owned houses for purchase at half price.
• Allow families to use H!JD Section
8 rent vouchers to make mortgage
payments. If Congress approves the
plan. Freddie Mac. a government
sponsored mortgage lender. would
agree to buy up 2.000 mortgages
originated by private lenders.
• Reduce closing costs for first-time
homebuyers by about $200. Those
eligible would be purchasers of ·
inner-city homes financed by the
Federal Housing Administration.
• Sponsor a second round of urban
empowerment zones. a major HUD
initiative in Clinton's first term. TI1e
president wants to add 15 empowerment zones-which offer grants and
tax incentives to businesses that
locate in inner cities-to the 105
already created.
• HUD plans to double recommended prosecutions for housing
discrimination.
Later this week; the department
will overhaul enforcement of its rules
in dealing with property managers
and developers. HUD's notoriously
poorly monitored and overgenerous
subsidy programs for landlords will
soon come under an enforcement
office headed by the FBI. department officials said.
HUD's report found significant
good news for the nation's urban
areas. A strong economy has resulted in the lowest unemployment rate
since 1993 for the nation's 10 largest
cities. And there has been a steep
drop in violent crime.
But the study found that at a time
when many inner-city residents are
facing deadlines to get off welfare,
the vast majority of new businesses
and new jobs are being created in the
suburbs. The Clinton administration
has proposed spending $110 million
on transportation to connect innercity residents with suburban jobs..
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By JAMES BENNET
and his hope to "rewrite the rules of
LOS ANGELES, June 23 -As he human evolution, almost," by teachhopscotched among California fund- ing 'people of different races to get
raising events, President Clinton alohg.
Mr. Clinton told the mayors that he
alighted today at an elementary
school to promote his ideas for chil- among American Presidents was exdren's health care imd at the annual ceptionally equipped to address the
gathering of the United States Con- needs of cities.
"I imagine I have been in more
ference of Mayors to unveil some
modest initiatives- and some grand urban neighborhoods, meeting with
more different kinds of people about
dreams- for cities.
At the Mar Vista Elementary more different kinds of issues, than
School here, Mr.- Clinton attended a any of my predecessors," he said.
The President stopped just short of
ceremony where the medical services giant Kaiser Permanente announced that it would provide $100
million over five years to help pay
for health coverage for as many as
50,000 California children from low- .
income families.
In his remarks, Mr. Clinton recalled his efforts to create a national
health care system. "It's -well known
1 failed, but I'm not ashamed that I
tried," he said. After that misfire, he
said, "we sort of rolled up our
sleeves" and approached the problem of uninsured Americans incre- promising the mayors that he would
mentally.
veto a budget bill that did not restore
He called on other companies to disability benefits to legal immichip in for health insurance for the 10 grants, money that he.said was stipu- ·
million American children who lack lated in the budget accord with the
it, but also declared that "govern- Republican leaders of Congress. "I
ment has to do Its part, too," noting will not sign the bill unless Congress
that the new budget agreement keeps its commitment in the budget
would help extend insurance to poor agreement to do that," he said.
children.
The President announced three
But the President's major address Administration initiatives for the citof the day was to the mayors, meet- ies.
ing in San Francisco, whe~:e in 45
To encourage police officers to live
minutes and under the loose rubric of in the neighborhoods they patrol, he
urban policy he corralled topics as said, the Department of Housing ami
diverse as his dreams for home own- Urban· Development will offer them
ership, his plans for the Federal a 50 percent discount to buy homes
budget, his desire for an AIDS cure that it owns. "Just imagine what it
Qetween fundraising stops, the
President promotes
his domestic themes.
will be like when more police make
those neighborhoods their homes
again," he said.
Mr. Clinton did not mention the
number of officers who would be
eJigible to buy the homes, but the
Administration said it hoped to reach
about 1,000 with the program, which
is to last a year. Andrew M. Cuomo,
the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development, said that "If It works
the way we think it's going to work,
then we would continue It and the
numbers would be larger."
In addition, Mr. Clinton said the
Federal Housing Administration
would reduce mortgage premiums,
or loan points, to t:5o percent from
1.75 percent for first-time home buyers in central cities. Administration
officials said the reduction would cut
closing costs by an average of $200
for qualifying buyers, whom they expect to number about 20,000.
Last, Mr. Clinton announced a plan
for a demonstration program In
which up to 2,000 families would purchase their own homes using rent
subsidy money available under a
Federal program known as Section 8.
Mr. Cuomo said the three Initiatives together would cost$700 million
a year.
Mr. Clinton was the star of three
fund-raising events in the two cities
he visited today.
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At one, a lunch In San Francisco to
raise money for Senator Barbara
Boxer's re-election campaign, Ms.
Boxer said critics had charged that
"the poor people are left out of this
event." But she told her guests that
by donating to her campaign, they
were helping to make sure that
·"poor people's concerns are Inside
the United States Senate."
Mr. Clinton praised Ms. Boxer for
her sunny disposition, finding a contrast between her and others In
Washington. "You listen to some of
these people talk In the nation's capital," he said, "you'd think that they ·
spent the .whole· morning sucking
lemons."·
In Lo·s Angeles, Mr. Clinton appeared at an event to raise money
not only for Ms. Boxer but also for
other Democratic senators. Ms. Boxer's office said It expected Mr: Clinton to raise $1.5 million today.
And planners hoped that an event
here tonight for the Democratic National Committee would raise about
$80,000 for the President's debt-ridden party.
Mr. Clinton also used the mayors'
gathering today to renew his call for
national. education standards, deridIng as "a lot of bull" the notion that
some poor children could not meet
them ..
And he Implored the mayors to
help encourage people of different
races to get along.
"We have a chance here to do
something that has never been done
in all of human history," Mr. Clinton
said, pointing to a time "before there
was a written history" when tribes
"Identified people who looked different from them and lived different
from them as their potential enemies."
He said the United States could
now overcome the dictates of evolution to create "the world's first truly
great multiracial, multlethnlc democracy."
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1997
Cities Still Carry
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HUD Study Says
By RONALD BROWNSTEIN
TIMES POLITICAL WRITER
WASHINGTON-Despite recent
gains in creating jobs and combating crime, the nation's largest cities
continue to suffer from an exodus of
middle-class residents and an
increasing concentration of poverty, according to a government
study scheduled for release today.
The study by the Department of
Housing and Urban Development
concludes that conditions have
improved in most major cities since
the recession of the early 1990s. but
many "are still lagging behind
[and] . . . continue to face very
deep-seat e.d pro b 1ems that
threaten not only the long- term
health of those cities but their connected suburbs."
In a speech today to the nation's
mayors in San Francisco, President
Clinton will endorse the report's
principal proposals, which center
on a series of measures to encourage greater home ownership in the
cities, a senior White House official
said Sunday.
Those ideas include stepped- up
enforcement efforts against housing discrimination. subsidies to
encourage police officers to live in
inner-city neighborhoods, a reduction in federal mortgage insurance
costs and allowing poor families to
apply federal rent vouchers toward
home ownership, according to a
copy of the report made available to
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The Times.
The study's release comes just
one week after Clinton announced
his intention to lead a national dialogue on race, which led him
immediately into criticism from
some civil rights leaders, who
maintain he has not don.e enough to
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to preliminary FBI figures) and .a sharp increase in
help the urban poor.
mortgage lending to African Americans and Latinos as
the
Clinton administration has intensified enforcement
The HCD study i~ somewhat schizophrenic in tone,
of the fair-lending and community-reinnstment laws.
alternately taking c:-edit for progress since Clinton's
But drawing on data from the Bureau of Labor Staelection and highlighting remaining problems it says
tistics and the Census Bureau. the studv concludes that
demand furthe:- go,·e:-nment action in urban areas.
cities continue to face three major chalienges.
Perhaps most ominously, the study found that
One is jobs: Despite the recent gains in employment.
·middle-class families of all races continue to migrate
the study found that four of the 10 largest cities still
·out of cities. learir.g urban areas with much higher
han not reco,·ered all the jobs they lost during the
concentration~ of poor and single-parent families than
recession of the early 1990s. And it notes that 97 o/c of all
their su:-rounding subu:-bs.
.
new businesses formed durir.g the early 1990s were
But HCD also concluded that many cities are being
located in the suburbs.
re]u,·enated by a reduction in crime. a surge of hardWhile cities are benefiting from an infllL"\ of highworking ne\\· immigrants and an infltL"\ of Information
wage sen·ice jobs-wages in cities are rising faster than
Age jobs in such areas as banking. engineering and
in the suburbs-many low-income urban residents lack
communications.
the skills to take advantage of those opportunities, the
report warns. At the same time. they lack access to
ather than examining the health of specific comsuburban
areas, which are creating more entry-le,·el
munities. the study looks at broad national trends
jobs.
affecting cities.
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On the positiw side of the ledger. the study notes
that during the past four years. unemployment has
dropped by near!:; one-third in the nation·s 50 largest
cities. \\'ith that m\·igorated economic actirity-a,nd
an inr;eased commitment to go,·ernment reformmost CJ;,· go\·e:-r.1:1ents a:·e in stronger fiscal shape than
earlier ir: the decade. the report concludes.
"We say you have to figure out hov.· to get people out
to the serYice jobs out in the counties." HUD Secretary
Andrew Cuomo said in an inte:-view Sunday.
In addition, cities ·continue to suffer from the longterm erosion of their middle-class tax base. In 1996.
middle-income and more affluent families were three
to four times more likely to r.:on from city to suburb
than in the other direction.
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cities has declined somewhat since 1993, it remains just
Department for prosecution each year.
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Cuomo
said. in housing and there is more WP. can do, ..
1.3 million in the suburbs, HUD found.
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In detailing Clinton's urban agenda, the report-pn:- ::..~Jr_~~~i~on, HYD w_ill re_duce go,·ernment ins;1rance
pre~u~ms for f1rst~t_1me _mner- c1ty ~om,e bu~~r~; a
· marily collects ideas the president has already _proposed, such as leveraging greater private investment in
mo-.,;e mt~~ded s~eci!Icall: to encoura~e n:~re no~,k:ieinner cities and providing incentives to encourage the
class families to ln·e m the c:ues. Cuomo sa!(L
hiring offormer welfare recipients.
linton will urge Congress to allow some cif the Li
n today's speech, White House officials say, Clinton
million households that ~eceiYe fede~al rent s;Ibsiwill also specifically urge congressional Republicans
dies to use their vouche:-s to pay for mortgnge.s on
private homes.
to include provisions in their tax bills that would provide incentives for companies to clean up polluted
In separate bills to reform the public hou.sing system.
urban areas known as "brownfields" and expand his
both the House and Senate have embraced that idea.
empowerment zone plan.
But that legislation-which has cleared the Hou'e nr.d
In 1994, Clinton designated six cities as empoweris expected to pass the Se:-:ate later this mor.th-f<it'es
ment zones; each received a $350-million package of
an uncertain future because the administration oppo::e:;
federal grants and tax breaks meant to encourage
other elements of it. particu!arly a proposal to allocate
business investment and social reconstruction in
more public housing units to low-income work!r.g
depressed neighborhoods. Passed over in the final
families, rather than the n:-y poor.
selection, Los Angeles received a $400-million-plus
Indeed, across the board. Republicans inte:·e::~ed in
subsidy for a community investment bank.
urban policy-both in Was:-..±r.gton and the s;:-lt£?s-are
The report's new recommendations center on
charting a somewhat differe::t course than Clir.ton.
encouraging home ownership.
House Republicans late:- this year may arh·anre nn
Through administrative action, it says, HUD 'will
urban
package that focuses on pri,·ate-schoo] vouchencourage police officers to live in distressed neighers, capital gains tax breaks. and incenti1·es for greater
-borhoods by selling them BUD-foreclosed properties
involvement of churches a::d charities in inner-city
at a 50% discount: HUD will also double the number of
neighborhoods.
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home-buying in inner cities
By Mimi Hall
USA TODAY
DENVER- President Oin·
ton today will propose plans to
help police officers, working
families and renters purchase
homes in the inner cities.
Included is a plan to give
50% discounts to help up to
2,000 police officers to buy fed·
erally foreclosed homes in 500
low-income neighborhoods. ·
Ointon, in a speech to the
U.S. Conference of Mayors'
meeting in San Francisco today, will announce a $675 mil·
lion, five-year program that
would also reduce closing costs
for first-time buyers and help
renters buy.
The administration's "Urban
Homestead" effort coincides
with release today of a "State
of the Cities" report by the
housing department, which
finds that the middl-e class continues to nee to the suburbs.
The job picture is particularly
grim for cities in the 1990s:
87% of the new lower-paying
jobs are being created in the
suburbs.
Ointon has been criticized
by same civil rights leaders for
failing to focus on urban issueS..
"It strikes me as more of the
same," said Ron Walters, a
University of Maryland government professor. "The presi-
dent so far has given us a
whole bunch of symbolism."
In addition to discounts for
police officers, the plan would:
Ill> OIJer first-time buyers a
$200 break on closing costs
when they buy inner-city
homes with mortgages insured
by the Federal Housing Admin·
istration.
Ill> Allow working families
that get HUD rental vouchers
to use them to buy homes.
Ill> Double the number of
housing discrimination cases
referred to the Justice Department. HUD receives about
40,000 discrimination complaints each year and acts on
more than a third of them.
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inner-city homeownership
· President Clinton announced plans Monday to promote
homeownership in inner cities, linking the. proposals to his
recent initiative on race.
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"We have to create in our cities our national ideal of one
America that crosses all racial, ethnic and other lines, that
gives every child a chance to flourish and every Citizen a
chance to serve," Clinton said. He was armed with a new
HUD report showing that minorities and the poor are increasingly concentrated in inner-city neighborhoods while
more jobs are migrating to the suburbs.
The housing plan, which Ointon outlined to the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in San Francisco, calls for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development to offer
50% discounts to 2,000 people to buy homes in inner cities
where they workHUD also will cut closing costs by $200 for
some homes and will allow w'orking families who get HUD
rental vouchers to use them toward mortgage payments.
Today, the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), a quasi-government company that funds one out
of every four mortgages, releases a survey that found people's images of cities have improvedln the past decade.
More than 83% would consider living in a small- or medium-:;ized city, but fewer than one in 10 would choose to live
in a large city. And six in 10 would not even consider buying
·ahome in a large city.
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Mayors sound an optimistic note
.The nation's mayors wound up five days of meetings in
San Francisco, expressing optimism that an era of fiscal re- .
sporisibility in Washington will help make cities better.
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"No situation is hopelesst said Chi. cago Mayor Richard Daley, outgoing
president of the U.S. Conference of
Mayors. "All problems are manageable and no excuse is credible."
.That position stands in sharp contrast to most mayoral meetings of the
· 1980s and early .'90s, when much
. · time was spent complaining that ur..·ban· problems were growing worse
and Washington was refusing to help.
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But the mayors· say .. cities are
Daley: 'Problems
·learning to help themselves. A State
are manageable'
of the Cities report unveiled by HUD
Secretary Andrew Cuomo shows that
many cities have lower crime and unemployment rates, upswings in tourism and downtown redevelopment, expanding low-income housing and improving attitudes and outlooks among residents.
And although the report cautioned that "cities are doing
better, but real challenges remain," it didn't stop President
Clinton from declaring wher{ he spoke to the mayors Mon-:
day, "Cities are back!"
-Richard Benedetto
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Clinton unveiled
initiatives aimed at improving urban slums. ·
They include a pilot program to allow 2,000 ·
. police officers to buy .HUD-owned homes at :
half price with a $100 down payment; a $200
break on closing costs for first-time home
buyers; and a proposal to allow Section 8
rent vouchers to be used to pay mortgages.
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Belp for tl}e Qities
RESrDENT. · :Clinton recently into a department that works.
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posed a question to the Depart: , · . OJ1e~_iVay tO improve the perfor.•
.merit ·of Housing and trrban De~ .mance;.of cities is to foctis on making
velopment (HUD): Wh,at is thestate of housing· affordable. Clinton's "Urban
the country's' cities and what can the. Homestead" initiative is modest, but it
administni.tion
to'· :Prepare them to ~begins, at least, to address the probmeet their economic and social chal- lem of urban flight, with the aim of enlenges? Part of HUD's response was .couraging people to move to or redecidedly upbeatJin effect, it said main in low- . and moderate-income
cities are doing better than they were neighborhoods. The program would
in the '70s and '80s. ;Tl;te fiscal health give flist~time home-buyers a $200
.of cities is stronger, crime is down, .break on closing costs for living in the
and some have experienced a doWn- . most-populous cities and. also would
toWn renaissance.
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provide working families who rent
· But there . are chauenges galore. homes _chance to . become owners
Consider: For every .Iniddle- or high- with the help of federal vouchers.
income person that moves into a.·. The initiative's centerpiece; the "of·~ajor city, three to four move out. In ·fleer next door" program, offers police
i970, suburbs housed ·25 percent officers 50 percent discounts on 2,000
more families than cities; today, sub- government-owned homes. The idea urbs house 75 pe.t;cent more families a good one - is to increase the visibilthan cities. From 1990-93, 97 percent ity of police in troubled areas and
of new businesses were created in the make residents feel more safe. The
period, 87 problem is there are only limited
suburbs. In that same
percent of all new lower-paying jobs number of HUD-owned homes in all
were created in the suburbs (so cities but the largest cities.
aren't creatillg the jobs they need as
"Cities are back," Clinton told the
residents move from welfare to work). gathering of mayors. Given the limitaWhile Clinton's response to these tions of his proposals and the seriouschallenges won't result in major ness of the problems cities still face,
."t;&!langes (he announced a seven-step that's an overstatement. Some memplan to the Conference of Mayors), bers of Congress, too, are challenging
they point out an important truth: that proposed spending on empowerment
cities do matter. And, as though to un- zones, "brown fields" .cleanup efforts,
derscore this commitment to helping and HUD. Instead, the president
inner-city
communities,
Andrew should have said: "We've made
Cuomo, secretary of HUD, announced progress, we have more to do, but I'm
an ambitious management reform committed to making cities work."
pian to transform HUD from "the That's a message we'd welcome and
'poster child for inept go.vernrrl.ent" one Congress should heed.
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EDITORIALS/LETTERS MONDAY,
Mr. Clinton and the Cities
The urban initiatives recently announced by
President Clinton look dismayingly timid. They will
prove important only if they signal a strong effort
by the Administration to win Congressional approval for more than $10 billion worth of urban initiatives proposed earlier. But even if Mr. Clinton gets
every dime of the money, it will not be nearly
enough to mend urban blight.
The Administration plans to cut the cost of
homeownership in half for 2,000 police officers who
move into Government-owned inner-city homes.
That may help a few crime-ridden communities but
is too small to constitute a development strategy.
Mr. Clinton's plan to cut closing costs by an average
of $200 for first-time home buyers is sensible but not
enough to overcome the huge financial obstacles
that many poor families face when buying homes. A
third initiative would allow poor families to use
their Government-provided rental vouchers to pay
off mortgages should they seek to own their own
homes. This is a good idea, though not many renters
· will be able to marshal the other costs of moving to
homeownership.
The Administration previously proposed more
powerful programs for the cities that would spend
more than $10 billion, spread over five years, on
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A-;g
enterprise zones,. reclaiming polluted urban industrial sites,· housing vouchers and welfare-to-work
programs. The money may not make it through a
hostile Congress.
Even the full request is by no means enough.
This shortfall underscores the importance of private
initiatives like the $87 million commitment made
this month by the Rockefeller Foundation, Prudential Insurance, Chase Manhattan Bank and several
other corporations and foundations. This, coupled
with $10 million from the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, will pump money into an
urban policy that demonstrably works. The money
will finance community development groups that
build housing and create business ventures, reclaiming neighborhoods beset with crime and economic
deprivation. The $97 million will bring the 10-year
contribution by the consortium to about $250 million.
The Administration's report on cities, released
last week, points out that middle-class families
continue to leave large cities for the suburbs, leaving behind an increasingly poor population. The sad
truth is that current commitments, private and
Government, will not come close to reversing urban
blight. But the President has at least restarted the
Federal effort to face up to the problem.
�The Je!Wf Joumal • Monday, June 30, 1997
OPINION
.cnnt,drl urban·ptan ··fa rfrSi.h n1eeti ngneeds
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o!Maypr$1n San Jranclaco.
The~ liO'i1H · bllC rela·
tiops operaUpL~~'JllQVe
thamoat~i .~~.~sup_port for th4Ulati0n'a ~ areas
in a generatioiL .: • · ·: ·
But don'taet y()ur liOpe8 up.
According to a report On. the state
of cities released r:ticeDt1y by the
· Department ofHQUiin&and Urban
Development, citiea have ~neflted
· · frointhenation'a ·
overall econOmic .
growth and. lower
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the city, the preaident is offering
police otnceraa 50 percent discount on the eo~t of houSes on
which HUD bQ·foreclosed. The
prestdent'sp~Jsaeoodonebut it would be w etrect for only
one year.
The president also offers first·
time homebuyers a·$200 discount
on their mortgllje closing costs.
This Is a nice bQnus, but hardly
enoUgh to convince people to buy
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. ·bomesinthecity.
AB for jobs,
· Clinton 1a recy. .
une~plciymant;
·cling his plaJl'for
. taX credits for
Butsign1tlcant
problems i'elna:in.
imall bualnesses
· that liire welfare
The report spot- ·
~ts three~ .~
First, jo~ p.re
i:ecipierits, and
his $3 bllllon, flve-
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llowever,~ •WI ~~und . ~s::f:~a$ ~any ca~ ·
the bloclt'Cor·job o~ And . ·
now a mWio~ yo~ l1l()ibers ~·
ml.lSUlndjotil rollow1iii~e repeal
of welfare. . ,.. , · · ·
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midst ofplen~. The ~-citY ·
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standards for schools, but offer's ·
·no support for fi!'navating old .·· ·
school btilJdin~ He wants tO
.clean up urban toxic waste fields
butaWui~tllat~gis ~t;.
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Impoverished ~· ~ ....... ~
lnitialsubsiciles ~o hire 100,000 ·
arid exienll,' Ur·
ating the conditions {or~ dis- . more pollee
integration.
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ban enterprise zaries to more cODlmunlties.
white, black amt brown;..,- contin·
4es to flee from ci~~ ~who
Most of this is. pretty thin, re.
can afford tt move to.the iuburb&
heated stew ..
in IIEiarch of safer Streets and bet·
ter schools.
In signing the bu(faetdeal with
To reverse the trend;. Clinton
the Republican Qoniress; the pres~ a seven•poin~p~ As m·
ident essentially ~ed off on an
many of his biitiativea, the size or
Implicit subcla~-- that any real
the remedy Ja not ~te
urban renewal aaa·n<te. would orice
with the size oCthe probleJil.
omcers
more· be deferred.
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HE annual meeting of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors has
rarely been a good barometer
of the state of the cities.
The gathering of big city sachems
is usually a cross between a business association meeting and a college reunion, with the obligatory
"serious" speeches and seminars
mixed in with the inevitable cocktail parties and a few rounds of
sightseeing.
For the most part, the speeches
are so predictable that if you only
attend every few years, you still
feel like you've been to them all.
The speeches are usually "forever
'60s," with ritual calls for more social spending in general and more
spending on the cities in particular, all to negligible effect.
But the 1997 conclave was somewhat different. Instead of the usual
attempt to bang the tin cup and
call for money from Washington to
alleviate urban poverty, the mayors basked in the glory reflecting
off some of their number.- innovators such as Richard Daley of Chicago, Dennis Archer of Detroit, Ed
Rendell of Philadelphia, John Norquist of Milwaukee, Steve Goldsmith of Indianapolis and our own
Rudy Giuliani. President. Clinton
told the assembled mayors, with
some justice, that they were the
"most effective group of public offi-
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lighted to receive at least a short
cials in the u.s.~
burst of attention from the presiFor their part, the mayors atdent. Clinton's ·speech, mostly retending tried to put the old battles
cycled rhetoric, rambled through a
behind them. The host, San Franvariety of topics to end in a series
cisco Mayor Willie Brown, intro. of small-bore intiatives, only one of
duced an old-fashioned liberal resowhich requires congressional aplution calling on the feds to slash
proval.
Pentagon spending in order to free
up more funds for the cities. His
The proposals would: reduce
proposal died: Of the 58 resolutions
costs by $200 for first-time homeowners; allow as many as 2,000
introduced at the meetings, it was
cops to buy inner-city houses
the only one no one would second. _
owned by the Department of HousLater, Mayor Brown received the
ing and Urban Development at a
Richard J. Daley award- named deep discount; and experiment
for the legendary Chicago Mayor,
with allowing people who receive
infamous among liberals for his
Section 8 rental subsidies to use
role in calling out the police during
their vouchers to buy their own
the 1968 Democratic convention
homes.
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cum riot. Brown clashed bitterly
with Daley at the "McGovern Con(For the Midwestern mayors,
vention" of 1972, when the party
even these promises turned sour
insisted on a platform so liberal it
the very next day, when Clinton
was dubbed the "the longest suiendorsed new air-quality regulacide note ever penned."
tions whose exceedingly strict
standards could well make many
Daley lost the dispute · with
Great Lakes industries economiBrown, and the Chicago regulars
cally unviable.)
- representing the party's traditional urban ethnic constituencies should be measured."
Particularly striking was the disBy any measure, the mayors' col- tance between the president's mod- were locked out of the conven· lective clout has slipped in recent est suggestions and the depth of
tion.
Now, 25 years later, Brown was years and so has their drawing the urban problem. This was outaccepting the Daley award from power. President Bush generally lined in a new report on the state
the famed mayor's son, the cunent ignored them and Clinton last year of the cities by HUD Secretary Anmayor of Chicago, Rich Daley Jr. used them as little more than a drew Cuomo.
Daley senior, Brown told the crowd campaign stop.
Despite the growth of "multimeSo the 320 mayors gathered last dia gulch" (its version of New
in an act of reconciliation, "was the
standard by which all mayors week in San Francisco were de- · York's Silicon Alley), San Francisco
has lost 50,000 jobs since 1990.
New York and Philadelphia have
250,000 and 68,000 fewer jobs
respectively now than at the
sta1t of the decade. The black
poverty rate exceeds 40 percent
m Milwaukee, home to another
~·new wave" mayor.
Five of the 10 largest cities are
governed by "innovative mayors," yet four of the five - Los
Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia
and Detroit- have lost population since 1990. New York has
held its own, but only by importing poverty_ in the form of a _
growmr; number of hard-working
but illiterate, unskilled immigrants unsuited -to an increasingly high-tech economy.
What the mayors' meeting suggests is that even the most innovative-of cities are suspended between the past and future. The
political battles of the '60s may
have ended (or at least cooled),
but there's little indication that
cities are prepared for the economic challenges at hand.
The dispersion of economic activity is long tern1 trend, argues
urban analyst Joel Kotkin a
trend that favors the suburban
"edge cities" over central cities
like New York.
That's the central economic
fact of our time. The challe11ge is
for our mayor and others to face
up to it. ·
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June 27, 1997
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A positive project ,twr
. president Cii~ton's.pl~n to offer . arid incertaiz: neighborhoods; bufthe. y.
low-cost nousmg to pollee OfTICers . -have been diSCUSSed. OVer the yearS.
Mills speculates th,ata high pe-rcentage
.. hoods they patrcilcanimprove relations .of .police officers,"perhap:s tip to 50 per- .
between residents and officers anq re- . cent of theforce; live outside the city··
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formed the perception of police from · has merits, it's .nota panace!l. for crime.
adversaries to public ser-'
. "It would be' good in an i
vants. The goal has been to
area that is being revital- :
·place officers ln the same . The
has Ized .. : but you don't have '
community day after day so .. been,_
plaCe to live somewhere to take.
they know residen:ts and
ownership."
·residents know (and learn ·.. : ·:_offzcers in. . , ·Indeed, cemmunicy polkto trust) them. . . '
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. .'the .same.··
. ing'effocts, such as foot pa:
. Clinton announced the
trols and crime-fighting
pilot projeCt· at a .recent . co-mmunity : 'partnerships with resi·. gat he dng' of U.S.~ mayors. · da · ,.. ,r.,. · ·· da.. ... :dents; have helped to tran.S~ ,
·The Q~Partment of Haps-. ·.·
Y ""'~er Y · forin neighborhoods like.
in~ and Urban Development · .. ·so• they know· Dove Springs iri Southeast·
. wfl offer 1,000 police offi- . . ·tesii3~n. ts.
·. Austtn. These .programs
cers a 50 percent discount to
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buy homes that itowns. If
· strengthened in Austin and
successful,· the program
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other cities. ·
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could be renewed af1era year. Details of . . Some housing authorities have pro..• the program are being workeq out. . . .vided ~·educed rent for their ,!?ecurity
' The mayors greeted Clinton's pro- 'guards to live iil hotl!ling developments.
posal with enthusiasmc In Austin and.'.. Some cities provide stipends so officers ·
other cities, elected officials have grap- _will live in neighborhoods where police
·pled with the use ofincehtivt s to en- . .Outreach needs ~o be-expanded. These
courage police officers to live in com-.. ·are ideas City leaders should. consider:· ·
munities·where their presence can ac- •· Clinton's proposal may prove to be
·celerate · the · transformation . . of more symbolic than substantive. Ifs not·:
crime~ridden commun~ties into safe · clear how much HUD housihg .is avail-··
havens. ·
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. Acting Police Chief Bruce Mills says .respond to the pro!>Osal . . .
Austin city officials have yet to adopt . But the president makes a good point:
incentives to keep officers in 'the city· Police officers m~e good neighJ>ors. ·
·. · ·. so· they will live· in the. ne1ghbor-. .
goal
to
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The nation's stake in cities
America's cities need work, and now is an ideal cially against the backdrop of welfare reform, a
time to do it.
federal initiative that could hurt cities if it's badly
The problem: Poverty clogs cities, a _new report done. The welfare-to-work effort, some mayors
from the Department of Housing and Urban De- have warned, must provide jobs, children's health
velopment explains, while middle-class· families insurance, day care, and transportation or else it
:·;,llnd jobs have made a one-way commute to the will smother cities in their citizens' unmet needs.
suburbs. But the nation's cities still have assets to
i\.nother challenge is w undermine the dismal
.::.build on. Crime is down, and civic confidence about stereotype that investing in cities is just another
.r:fighting crime is up. "Sein.feld" has helped tourists government handout. In fact, healthy cities tend to ·
f·r-get over their fears about New York. It's the per- make for healthy suburbs, and ailing cities can
-:?Teet atmosphere for mobilizing strengths aiainst have a damaging region"\\ide effect. The president
:.fl,_veaknesses.
and HUD should strive for the feel of the Marshall
Mayors, of course, have always spoken up for Plan, stressing that strong cities will help fuel na:wtheir cities, but tills year they have an amen corner tional success.
' :'that includes Hu"'"D and President ClintoiL On
The present danger to some of the president's
;:Tuesday, as city leaders left the 65th annual meet- urban goals is Congress, where representatives
,;iing of the US Conference of Mayors in San Fran- are contesting proposed spending on empower:.·!cisco, they had Clinton's \vords in their ears. Cities . · ment zones, toxic waste cleanup efforts, and HUD.
Liomatter, the president said as he detailed proposals That's a shame, because though they are often
-~to strengt.~en urban environments, homeowner- crowded, hectic, and dirty, the cities of Arneric:J.
·P'Srjp, safety, and economic opportunities.
are 24-hour laboratories of democl"acy that may
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Clinton's agenda:
Revive inner cities
proposes to iDcreaee home-owner·
ship opportunities for low· . and
PJesident Clinton was to unveil
an ambitious plan before the nation'a mayors MOnday to~
U.S. cities, which deepi~ the economic boom are still plagued by the
· losa of jobs and middle-class famiUee to the subu.rba and a growing
isolation of the poor.
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The plan Clinton waa to apeD i
out at the annual IJlesting of the ·
U.S. Conference ot Mayors is
based on a report by the U.S. Department of Housing and . Urban
Development concluding that although life fozo urban reaidenta is
improving, cities still need help.
"Too many cities, and most
larger cities, ale still lagging behind
the economic renewaleweeping the
country, .and they continue to face
very deep-aeated problema that
t.hteaten not only the -Icing-term
health of those cities but their connected subwbe;" ihe report states.
The Clinton administration
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field, Mass.. Mi&mi/I)ade County,
and Loe Anplea have agreed. to
participate in the program. Admin~
iatration officia1e upect 24 ci~ to
take advantage oftbe pilot project.
The Clinton cunp also baa
pledged to cut red tape for tbe
cities' mayom to reapond to the
need& of their eonstit1.1enta.
"What this report aays is that
dtiee xnatur " HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo' said Sunday. "11: says
that President Clinton is concerned about them, concerned
about their progrt:&s, and it's not
middle-income city dwellen, Jive
bnaioenee more tax incentives to
!We the poor, crack dowu OJJ violent crime and help develop induetrial wastelands, Jrnown ae btown ·
fields, into projects that apQl' jObs
and boOst the tax hue.
Cit.iee have been hurt by a
steady losa ot joba over the last .
detade, pert.icularly during the nm
· jget rhetoric; it's resources.•
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The repo:at ia eure to be welcome
news to big-city leaden, many ol
whom are at the fMKiay U.S. CoJlference ol Mayors meeting iD San
half of the 1990s.
In San Francisco, fw exa10ple~
52,452 jobs were lost from 1990 to
Clinton met privately SUDClay
Dight With a poup ofaboutl5Bay ·
Area high-tech company executivu continuing the administra·
tion'~ eourtahip. of the industly.
Mmy participants were 8DlODi .
the "aD-star" team of Silicon Val··
ley executives with whom Vice
President·Al Gore has meet regu.
.14rJy the past aix months.
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Tbe p.resident met for 45 mmuta with the group, discuasing is·
BUeS ranging £ram affinnative action to Internet censo;re.hip. The
meeting was held at the home of
venture capitalist Sandy Roberteon of Roberlaon Stephen& & Co.
Clinton'a state-of.the-citiea
speech Monday ia part of an .intense lobbying effort during_~
mayors' gathering by top adiP.inistration officiala who have been
wooing the mayor& with. pramisea
1995, the repOrt said. However, the
trend Ia tuming aroun~ Local
businessleadms project 20,000 new
jobs in The City through the tum
of the ~tury.
Part ot the tranafonnation in
San Francisco and other nuijor cities such as New York and Loa Angeles has been t.luoogh job developDlellt in high-tech. For example,
San Francilsco'a Multimedia GUlch
in the South o!Market is booming.
One compo~t of the revitalization plan, outlined by adJninia- ·
tration officials Saturday, is called
"The Officer Next Door Initiative." It would provide financial ineentive& for police to live in the
communities which they work. But a8 with moat mitiatives, the.
devil is in the det&ls, and the pro·
posal DUlY be a hard seJJ to beat
oops. Under the plan, the Federal
Houaing Administration wiD offer
officem a 60 percent discount on
foreclosed propertiee owned by
HUD in .designated rerit81ization
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age local houaing authorities to create epeeial ·preferencea to allow
cope to Jive in public hQU&ing project& In many cit:M!s, inch ding San
Franci&co, the developmenm often
have eome ot the highest crime
rata and are the Seaet deairabJe
places to liv~ in the comm"!'iti.ee.
Franciaco.
Clinton arrived in San FrflllCia.
co Sunday with first lady Hillary •
Rocfham Clinton from the economic sumnrit in Denver.
of more money and accountability ·
from Washington.
· The effort at.ema from years of
gmmbling by urban IPayors that
their needa have been ignored.
"Wbat'a happelled over the
years i8 "that the federal govern.
ment baa gotten &riher and fur.. ·
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people, while the bureaucracy baa
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is launching the 'ttlrban Home·
stead Initiative," which among
other things would lower the federal mortgage insmance premium for
-.first.tiJne home buyers, from the
current level of 2 percent to 1.75
... SPOTLIGHT: On
Chicago Mayor. Richard
Daley, out-going president
of the conference, ·
presiding at the final
convention session.
... TRAJ=RC WATCH: The
trllffic crunch shOuld be
concentrated on Nob Hill
and the Fairmont Hotel.
... SERIOUS ISSUE:
Wetfare reform, the
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percent.
domlnuted the mayors'
substantive
eonversations all weekend. The mayors' task force
on welfare refonn presents Its report and Secretary
of Labor Alexis Herman :weaks to close out the
five-day convention.
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increased;" said Chicago Mayor
Richard Daley. who heads· the
mayor&' organization. But it is locaJ
go\.remments, he added, that must
deal with the problems on the front
line.
One of Clinton's ml\iOI' goals is
to attract the middle class back to
the cities.
The Census Bureau baa foUXId
that the nation's population grew
by 45 million over the paat 20
years. but for every new pereon in a
city, there are four in the.suburbs.
Ananio:re and more, the people left
behind in the cities are poor.
The poverty rate in cities
1'0iile
from 14.2 percentofthepopulation
in 1970 to a high of 21.5 percent in
1993~
It's now down to 20.6 per-
cenL
Despi~ a new downward
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would allow
woricing &mniea to uee Section 8
federal housing aulnidies to help
pUtC:base a home. Now, the mcmey
ia designated for nmtals only•
HUD also WJ1l ask Congress to
provide $50 million to beef up
home oW!Jershlp opportunities in
new development& in the heart of
apecial inner-city zones. The budget is now $10 million, with gra:nts
already allocated to frix cities, including Sacramento.
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Welfare overhaul is also addreeaed iD the plan, with the ad·
ministration propoein( • apecial
tu. credit fur businesaea Ui neglected areas that hiM people on wel. Another propoeal
tnmd,
Cuomo aaid. the high level of poverty ia still bad news · for big citiea
because when they lose the middle
clasa, they Ieee a vital t.u base and
aee an 'increaeed demand on costly
eoc:ia.l eenri.cee. The result, be said:
.,A dec:liDe in the qualiLy of life.., .
fale.
Jobe for those on public assis- •
taDce an essential it the federal
· wellare·to-work initiative ie to sue.
ceed. With job groWth in the suburb&, &lid DlOIJt people on welfare in
the inner citie&,linlcine the two will
not be easy.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary
Rocmey Slater ple.dged to the mayors. on Saturday tllat $600 uUllion
would be made available ~ prognma to help get people on welfare-to- work. HUD wants to atep
· up ef!orta to create the jobs where,
the people live. · ·
With many cities - including
San Francisco, Cleveland, New
Yo.rk and Loa Angeles - already
showing signs o~ improwment,
Cuomo said he hopes the presi·
dent'a new initiatives will apark
continuedpn>gresa.
"Cities are doing well," he said.
"but they're atiU Jagging, and they
can do better with the president!&
plan."
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President Clinton will propose
a seven-pomt plan in San Francisco to9ay to revitalize America's cities through a combination of jobs,
.housing, clean :streets and safe
. nc1ghborhoods, senior administra;.
tion officials said.
In a ·speech to the U.S. Confer. ence of ~YON, Cl,inton wm outline an urban agenda for his sec.
ond term; ·.whiCh.· .includes ·we
brea'ks .lor ~pwyers hiring peo. pie· o!~ welfare rolls, subsidized
. ·mortgages for middle-clue! fami-·
lles and polic~. o!ticen, and a com.mitment wclean tip Old l.ndu.strial
eyesores.
Admlnist:ation. officials are.
billing Clinton's re:i:narb 83 the
. mOst ambitioUs pledge ol support
for the· nation's urban areas in a
gener:::r.tion.
"This is one of the strongest
statements we've heard Jn decades," HUD SecreW>: An,dr~
Cuomo wd Jn an interview. 'Tlus
administration's support tor cities .
is the strongest we've seen in 20
years."
The president will also release
·a m,ajOr new study on the state ot .
.American clUes by the De~.
meJlt of Housing and prban Development The ·study documents the
growing isoL1t1on .of the urban •
poor as middle-class residents con-
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draft of the study obtained by The ·
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to be divided into two nations one doing well in the.suburbs, and
the other. marginalized in urban
·neighborhood~."
Much o£ the urb~ agenda to be
touted by the president .has at·
· ready ~n announced, such as a .
second .. round of "empowerment ;
zones" _:. a combination of .tax ·
credits ·and grants intr.Qduced dur·
tng his first term, aimed. at spur·
ring busi~ess growth in ~h~ inner ·
city - and a plan to permit em- .
.ployers to claim a 50 percent tax
crcditon.the first $10,000.of wages
for Jong-teriD':w~Uare recipients.
The adminiStration has also prO:pose~ a $2.5 billion initiative ·to
clean . up abandoned .industrial
sites, known as "brownfields." ·
In his speech to the. mayors at
the Fairmont H.otel this morning,
the president Will warn them that
the. tax <;ut plans being advanced
t.his week by Republicans in Congress could endanger the empow- .
erment zone and brownfield initia~
tives, White House sources said..
Cli~ton will alro detail ~everal
new initiatives, mostly aimed at
spurring horne ownership in the
city.
"We are losing too many rilid·
dl~lass (families) from cities,•
Cuomo said~ "How do you reverse
that trend? Home ownership." .
One proposal would allow recipients of a gov~rnment assistance program for renters to apply
their · vouchers to·ward the . pur~ .
chase of a home. The rent assts- ·
tance program, kt1own as Section
8, is one of the department',; most
extensive; it . currently reaches
more than 1 million low-~come
Americans. Cuomo said be is hopeful the option to use the credit toward home oWDersbip will assist a
couple thou.Sand new homeowners
imm~tely, and perhaps many
more over the next several years.
Clinton 'Will also propose· that
police officers be allowed to pur·
chase HlJD.owned homes at 50 per·
cent of their coot, a move that
Cuomo said he believes Will lead to
thousa,nds ~f police o!fic~rs relocating to the city in which they
work.
In addition, the president will
announce a reduction in Ht:'l). ·
backed mortgage fees tlut will
save many' f~t-t.ime homebuyers
hundreds of ·dollars ·in closing
costs.
HUD officials said those three
proposals together will cost $675
million over the next. five years.
The proposals come in response
to new figures compiled by HUD
t~t found cities lagging far be-'
hind suburbs in economic vitality.
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great job creators. While the num·
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tbe suburbs during the early 19005,
cities lost jobs. Compounding the
. problem, tbe study !ound that
.nearly 9 out of 10 new service and
retail jobs~ the lower-Skilled jobs
that are often the only kind avail·
able to lnneHity residents- were
created in the suburbs. ·
8 The urban poor are growing
more isolated, economically and
soc.Wly. In. 1995, the report says,
one of every live central city.resi·
dents was Uving in poverty compared With less than one in every
10 suburban residents. The report
blames the poverty rate for "eating away at tbe residential core of .
inner ciUei." . ·. .
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ue to flee to the suburbs. Only 11 of
the :l> largest cities. in 1970 have
. gained population lD the past 27 .·
years. In 1£r70,. suburbs hoUsed 25
percent more families than cities,
while today suburbs bouse 7~ per·
cen~ more families.
The report credits the domestic
policies of Clinton's flrst·term !or a
rebound of cities in the past couple
of year,, but notes that there is a
long way to go.
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nation's ciUes are reboU.nding
from their historic
points·;
reached during lbe .previou! de-
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cades," the report reads,· "inany
city neighborhoods continue to
show signs of distress and disloca~
· tton. The· time ls right for Initiatives to extend and deepen Ameri-
ca's urban renaissallce.''
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SAN FRANCISCO- President Clinton,
selling forth a· seven-poinl urban agenda,
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called on U1e 11ation's mayors yesterday
refocus on public schl)())s and to help find
jobs for the pl)or, and in retum offered a
mot.lest program designed to encourage
more policemen to live in Lhe cities they palmi:
His agenda - perhaps his most comprehensive since he arrived in the White House
- covered the gamut. from reductions in
crime t.o increased home ownership, and coneluded with a plea to el'adicati racism from
inner cities.
Clinton received a prolonged ovation at
the annual gaU1e1ing of the United States
Conference of Mayors, de.o>pite past criticisms of the president frm~ many big-<ity
mayors for his SUJ>port of welfare o\'erhaul.
Anerward, many of U10se in the room, including Republican Mayor Richard Riordan
of Lris Angeles, l<tuded Clinlon, if not for his
programs, at least foJ· his oratory.
"1t does a lot for us psychologically and
emotionally for him to emphasize what we've
known for a long time Utat we have to do,"
said Mayor James A. Sheets of Quincy,
Mass.
Said Mayor TJ10mas 1\fenino of Boston:
"Do we have money like we used t.o? No, but
we have a president who istat leasL accessi-
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From left. Mayors Richard Daley of Chicago, Willie Brown of San Fraliclsco, and Deedee CorradJnl of Salt Lake City npplaud President CIJnlon as be takes tl1e podium
yesterday at the US Conierence of l'rlayors In San Francisco.
Menino was the subject of considerable
praise at Ute conference yest.en1ay. Chicago
Mayor Richard Daley, the group's president,
. praised Menino's efforts t.o lake control of
the public schools. And twice, Clinton singled
cmt Menino during his speech, first for Uoslon's tight against juvenile crime, and later
for the city's antit.ruancy program.
Menino "may get some tnoney from the
fedel'al government to hire police, but they
deCided Ulat they'd have police and probation officers m:ike house calls to kicts in !rouble, and t.hey have an astonishing 70 percent
compliance wit.h probation orders in the city
of Boston," Clinton said. "I feel quite C()nfident tJmt that is virtually unheard or in
Amerka."
Menino said he was Unilled lhal Clinton
singled out Boston's success in culling crime.
"Once again, with no big agenda, no big
·business plan, the small pieces of go\'emment have come togelher jn Boston,'' lhe
mayor said. "We've. improved public education and schools. and done home ownership
programs that all go toward malting Boston
n safer cily.''
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Menino 'noted that Daley had praised
Dost.on's sehoul ~(forts. "People are recogniz-
ing U1at we're movirig up," the mayor said..
''We've still goL o long way to go but people·
are recognizlng our good work."
Clinton spoke as lhe Department or.
Housing oncl Urban Development released a · ·
report concluding that most majorcitie~ con- ·· ·
tinue to have an exodus of residents and :u·e ·
burdened by an incrca.<;ing concentration r>f
poverty. Still, the sluuy said that most cit;es · · .
Well! better off in 1997 than in lh~ early
1990s.
Clinton warned that even while crime .
rntes have dropped significanlly in the na- ..
tion's cities, the fear of crime is stiJJ high. To
that end, he Initiated a one-yeru- program
U1at lets police officel's become eligible to
buy about 2,000 HUD-owned, single-family
· homes at half price. Five cities, including
Springfield, Mass., have a.IJ'eady agreed to
participate in tlle prog1·arn.
"You have ~hown me how more police officers on our streets have made so rnany of
our neighborhoods feel. like home again,"
Clinton said. ".Jusl imagine what it will be
like when more .police make Ulose neighborhoods their homes again."
In a separate program, the Federal
Housing Administration will reduce motir
gage premiums, eifecUvcly cutting the clos. ing cosls of some urban homes by $200, Clinton said.
Clinton urged
mayors to p·usb urban
schools to participate in national means testr
ing as a way to gauge perfonnanc.e· and identify areas to improve.
the
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speech here to the U.S. Conference
of Mayors. Another was a S200 bonus
SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to en- for first-time purchasers of homes in
courage stability in America's cen- cities. The bonus would come from
tral cities, President Clinton yester- reduced closing costs for home purday offered police who buy urban ·chases finanGed by the Federal
homes from the Department of Housing Administration. Clinton orHousing and Urban Development a dered the FHA to shave its mortgage
50 percent discount on the house's premiums by one-quarter of 1 perlist price.
cent for purchases in designated
Over the next year, HUD hopes to areas of 524 U.S. cities. The adminisplace 1,000 police officers in houses tration estimates this Will save the
it owns.
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That was one of three modest iniUnder a third pilot program, Cliri.~
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ton, announced that the quasi-fed- Kansas City, Mo., said his city offers
era! financial agency Freddie Mac police a 25 percent subsidy for home
will finance inner-city .home pur- purchases in inner-city neighborchases for up to 2,000 low-income hoods, and 18 officers have taken
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advantage of it so far. He, too, defamilies across 'tlie country.
·= The three new programs, which
fended Clinton's proposal.
do .not need separate approval from
"You've got to be willing to move·
Congi:ess, will cost the government slowly lest you stumble and Cona ,;rota! of $700 million. Clinton gress then kills· the program,"
termed it a "down payment toward Cleaver said.
out priority of strengthening our
Clinton devoted most of his 45cities family by family.~·
minute speech to reviewing his adMayor James H.· Sills, Jr. of Wil- ministration's overall urban policy
mington, Del., seemed to reflect the · rather. than breaking new ground.
"Our cities are back," he proprevailing senti~ent.of his peers in
welcoming Clinton's programs, de- claimed, citing a new HUD study tispite their modest reach.
tied "The State of the Cities."
"We've got the biggest economic
"Overall, I was impressed," Sills
said of Clinton's message. Defend- resurgence in cities ·since World
ing. the "Officer Next Door" initia- War II; the unemployment rate
tive, Sills said: "It's limited in down by a third in our SO largest
scope, but if it works, state and lo- cities; more downtowns coming
cal governments will QUsh it for- back to life with sports and tourism
ward."
and local business booming .... But
· HUD Secretary Andrew M. Cuomo, I also know, and you know, that we
traveling with the President. said have much more to do." ·
the program will expand if local poIn Los Angeles later in the day,
lice take advantage of the pilot proj- Clinton was scheduled to announce ,
ect.
that Kaiser Pen::ilanente has agreed ·.
. "I think it's going to have a real to provide $100 million of health inimpact. People want to live next to a surance to up to 50,000 California
police officer," he said, adding that children from low-income families.
their presence would enhance the
Clinton also appeared at fund-raissecurity and stability of inner-city ing events here and in Los Angeles
neighborhoods.
for Sen. Barbara Boxer, <D .• Calif.),
For the police, "SO percent is a the Democratic Senate Campaign
real financial incentive," Cuomo Committee and the Democratic Na. noted. "The discount on the house . tiona! Committee. The events were
can be equal to their annual salary.'1 • expected to bring in Sl.S million.
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they could help the city reach its
goal of 50 percent homeownership
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by.2000, compared with 47 percent
SAN FRANCISCO- President a few yea.rS ago. "All these things
Clinton cheered the nation's may- are positive, ':he said.
ors yesterday by declaring "our
The city iS" preparing to launch
cities are back" and announcing its own program to encourage 150·
modest initiatives to make Ameri- teachers, police officers and firecans feel safer in low- and moder- fighters to buy homes in three
ate-incomeurbanneighborhoods. Northwest Baltimore neighborThe centerpiece was the "om- hoods with a combination of lowcer next door" program, offering interest loans, grants and other inpolice 50 percent discounts on centives, Henson said.
2,000 government-owned homes,
Two city programs have helped :
particularly in large cities with 212 municipal workers and 1,200 :
high crime rates. The aim is to· in- qualified buyers purchase homes
crease the visibility of police in in the city during the past several
troubled areas by moving them in- years, · and a . Housing Venture
to long-vacant homes.
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Fund has earmarked $2 million to
"It will be some. of the best encourage home buying in the
money the federal government ev- city's federal empowerment zone
er spent," Clinton said in a speech revitalization areas, officials said.
to the U.S. Conference ofMayors.
Under a related program, 20
The president promised to give. Housing Authority and city police
first-time homebuyers a $200 officers, the maximum allowable
break on closing costs for-living in under federal regulations, are livthe most-populous cities and to ing in public housing units at cut·
provide families the chance to rate rents, he said.
move from renters to owners with
At the mayors' conference,
the help of fedE!ral vouchers. Ini- Democrats and-Republicans alike
tially, the program will be avail- welcomed Clinton's announceable in Cleveland; Miami-Dade ment with enthusiasm.
County; Kansas City, Mo.; Los An"His plan is fabulous," said Regeles; and Springfield, Mass.
publican Mayor James A. Garner
Clinton focused on falling crime of Hempstead, N.Y. "It is sensitive
rates and unemployment down by to the needs of our cities."
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Da- ·
. a third in the 50 largest cities.
"What a long way we have come," ley, president of the conference,
he said. "It wasn't so very long ago said, "The president's initiatives
that huge numbers of Americans show that he is with us. The Cederhad just simply given up on the'· al government is a big bureaucra- .
prospect of our cities."
cy but the presi9ent has always
But Housing Secretary Andrew been with us."
M. CUomo released a report showClinton cautioned mayors that ·
ingthat problems continue. It said Congress is backing away from ·
middle-class migration is continu- promised tax incentives for cities
ing, city poverty rates are rising, to clean up "brown fields" - for- :
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By PAUL SHEPARD
Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - President Clinton's plan to revive cities
by helping police officers live in the inner-city neighborhoods
that they patrol drew praise from mayors of both parties and·from
cities of all sizes.
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"The Clinton administration has clearly paid great attention to
the cities," said Paul Helmke, the Republican mayor of Fort Wayne,
Ind., and incoming president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
"The Republican (administrations) of·the past didn't pay· that
much attention to cities, and I think if we are going to get back
to the White House, that will have to change," Helmke said.
Shifting from international affairs at the Summit of Eight in
,.Denver, Clinton joined with Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo and
Labor Secretary Alexis Herman on Monday at the mayors' conference
to announce his seven-step plan to revitalize cities.
Urban needs were underscored in a report released by Cuomo that
found middle-class migration to the suburbs is continuing, city
poverty rates are rising, and large cities lost jobs even as 12
million jobs were created nationwide.
.
Clinton's agenda includes tax breaks for employers who take
workers off welfare and a cleanup of abandoned industrial parcels
in the inner cities known as "brown fields."
The portion of the plan that was most warmly welcomed was a
proposal to offer federal housing grants to up to 2,000 police
officers for the purchase of government-owned homes at half price.
Hempstead, N.Y., Mayor James A. Garner, a Republican, said his
party affiliation won't keep him from calling Clinton's proposal
"a real winner."
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When people see police living where they wo~k, crime will have
to come down," Garner said.
The Urban Homestead initiative also would provide first-time
buyers a $200 break on closing costs for living in the most
populous cities and give working families the chance to become
homeowners with the help of federal vouchers.
Clinton said the police plan would build on the administration's
efforts to .put 100,000 new cops on city streets to make communities
safer.
"You have shown me how more police officers on our streets have
made so many of our neighborhoods feel like home again," he told
the mayors. "Just imagine what it will be like when police make
those cities their home."
Some of the mayors who liked the idea said it won't have any
direct impact on their cities.
Mayor Tom Concannon of Newton, Mass., an affluent Boston suburb,
said the average home in his city of 83,000 residents costs
$340,000. Even a 50 percent discount on government-owned homes, if
there were any, could still leave homes outside an officer's
budget, he said.
"We might not benefit but it's still a good idea," Concannon
said.
Democrat Cathie Brown, mayor of Livermore, Calif., which is
outside Oakland, said homes owned by the Department of Housing and
Urban Development were few in her city of 67,000 residents, but the
program could still have indirect benefits for'her community.
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R-Mo., chairman of the Committee on Small Business, said many of
Clinton's proposals already were under consideration by Republicans
in Congress.
"While I am pleased that after five years, this administration
is finally focusing on the opportunities in many of our cities, I
am concerned that this proposal is little more than rhetorical
grandstanding," Lazio said in a statement.
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By TERENCE HUNT
AP White. House Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO {AP) - President Clinton cheered the nation's
mayors Monday by declaring "our cities are back" and announcing
modest initiatives to make Americans feel safer in low- and
moderate-income urban neighborhoods.
The centerpiece was the "officer next door" program, offering
·police 50 percent discounts on 2,000 government-owned homes,
particularly in large cities with high crime rates. The aim is to
increase the visibility of police in troubled areas by moving them
into long-vacant homes.
"It will be some of the best money the federal government ever
spent," Clinton said in a speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
The president also promised to give first-time home-buyers a
$200 break on closing costs for living in the most-populous cities
and to provide working families the chance to move from renters to
owners with the help of federal vouchers.
Clinton focused on good news: falling crime rates and
unemployment down by a third in the 50 largest cities. "What .a
long way we have come," Clinton said. "!t wasn't so very long ago
that huge numbers of Americans had just simply given up on the
prospect of our cities."
.
However, Secretary Andrew Cuomo of the Housing and Urban
Development Department released a report showing that problems
continue. It said middle-class migration to the suburbs is
continuing, city poverty rates are rising, and large cities lost
jobs even as 12 million jobs were created nationwide.·
Democrats and some Republicans welcomed Clinton's announcement
with enthusiasm.
"His plan is fabulous," said Republican Mayor James A. Garner
of Hempstead, N.Y. "It is sensitive to the needs of our cities."
. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, president of the mayor's
conference, said, "The president's initiatives show that he is
with us. The federal government is a big bureaucracy but the
president has always been with us."
However, Rep Rick Lazio, chairman of the House subcommittee on
housing and community opportunity, and Rep. Jim Talent, chairman of
the Committee on Small Business, said many of Clinton's proposals
already were under consideration by Republicans in Congress.
"While I am pleased that after five years this administration
is finally focusing on the opportunities in many of our cities, I
am concerned that this proposal is little more than rhetorical
grandstanding," Lazio said in a statement.
.
Clinton cautioned mayors that Congress is backing away from
promised tax incentives for cities to clean up "brown fields" formerly industrialized areas of inner cities - and to expand
"empowerment zones" that provide businesses tax breaks in
exchange for locating in inner-city areas.
"The plans put together by the House and Senate committees
simply do not live up to the explicit· commitment of the budget
agreement, and that is wrong," he said.
Clinton noted that many mayors have disagreed with him, most
notably when he signed a tough welfare overhaul that city officials
fear will stick them with the problems of the·poor. "We can make
this work," he promised.
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Clinton said the police-housing plan builds on his efforts to
put 100,000 new cops on city streets.
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"You.have shoWn me how more police officers on our streets have
made so many of our neighborhoods feel like home again," the
president told the mayors. "Just imagine what it will be like when
police make those cities their home." ·
Initially, the program will be available in Cleveland;
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Miami-Dade County; Kansas City, Mo.; Los Angeles; and Springfield,
Mass.
Clinton flew to California from the eight-nation summit in
Denver to help raise $1.5 million for Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.,
in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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"You must not let this woman be defeated by all the people who
will say, 'Well, she's too liberal on this, that or ·the other
thing.' If she ever made a mistake in her life, it was mistake of
·.the head, not the heart," the president said at a $500-a-person
luncheon.
Boxer faces serious Republican challengers in her 1998
re-election bid.
Clinton also was visiting.a Los Angeles elementary school to
announce that Kaiser Permanente has agreed to provide $100 million
in free health care over the next five years f-or up to so, 000
uninsured children from low-income families each year.
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· . ~-ssociated Press Writer
DENVER (AP) - Addressing the plight of America's decaying and
dangerous cities, President Clinton is set to announce plans to
help working families and police officers become urban homeowners.
The proposal would award up to 2,000 police officers a 50
percent discount on inner-city homes owned by the Department of
Housing and Urban Development. rn·addition, first-time buyers would
·get a new $200 break in closing costs and working families who now
get rental vouchers from Washington could use those to purchase
houses instead.
Clinton, finishing a meeting with leaders of the world's largest
industrialized nations here, planned to unveil his "Urban
Homestead" initiatives Monday to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in
San Francisco.
Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who also planned to release a
HUD report on inner cities Monday, hailed the initiatives Sunday as
a way to halt urban flight and lure middle-class Americans back to
cities.
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"Cities are doing much better. Poverty is down, unemployment is
· down. But there are some real challenges that remain," Cuomo said
in a telephone interview fromSan Francisco. "We can do more with
cities in terms of generating jobs. We.need to use all of our
·assets, all of our people."
All but one of the initiatives could be accomplished without new
legislation, acco=ding to. White House officials.
Congress would have to approve a bill allowing families to
convert section eight HUD·rental vouchers into nempowerment
vouchers" to pay house mortgages instead. As part of that
proposal, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., better known as
Freddie Mac, would commit to purchase up to 2,000 mortgages
. dedicated to the program. Freddie Mac is a stockholder-owned
corporation established by Congress in 1970 to provide money to
mortgage lenders.
Cuomo said the initiatives can be accomplished within the 1998
budget request for HUD.
The $200 in closing costs savings for first-time home buyers
would apply to·mortgages insured by the Federal Housing
Administration, reducing by a quarter point the current 1.75
percent mortgage insurance premium. This comes on top of $1,200 in
such savings already approved by Clinton since 1995.
The pilot police ownership program, dubbed the "Officer Next
Door," would allow up to 2,ooo·:police in 500 low-income
neighborhoods nationwide.to buy:HUD-owned inner city homes at half
price. 'The .downpayrnent also. would be a bargain at $100. Mayors
designate-such neighborhoods.
Administration officials said-the goal of the Urban Homestead
package is to narrow the city-suburban home ownership gap. Now,
72.1'percent of suburban families own their homes, but only 49.8
percent of city families-do.
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By LAURA .MYERS
Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Looking to breathe new life into big U.S.
cities, President Clinton is proposing steps to attract the middle
class back to the urban underside of America's otherwise glowing
economy.
In a speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors today, the
president was touting initiatives to encourage inner-city home
ownership as a way to halt urban flight and reinvigorate downtowns
plagued by decay and crime.
The Urban Homestead initiatives would give up to 2,000 police
officers SO percent discounts on purchasing government-owned homes;
provide first-time buyers a $200 break on closing costs; and give
working .families the chance to move from renters to owners with the
help of federal vouchers.
"Our growing economy has helped to revive poor urban and rural
neighborhoods, but we must do more to empower them to create the
conditions in which all families can flourish," Clinton said
earlier this yea=.
His speech follows a weekend spent in Denver meeting with the
leaders of the world's largest industrialized nations and Russia.
While in California, Clinton also planned to attend fund-raisers
for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Boxer is facing serious Republican Challengers in her 1998
re-election bid.
Clinton also was visiting a Los Angeles elementary school to
talk about child=en's health care before heading back to
Washington.
All but one of the president's initiatives can be done
administratively in the 1998 budget request for the Department of
Housing and Urba~ Development, a 30 percent increase to $6 billion.
Congress would have to approve legislation to let families
convert HUD Section 8 rental vouchers into "empowerment vouchers"
to pay home mortgages instead. The Federal Horne Loan Mortgage
Corp., better known as Freddie Mac, would commit to purchase 1,000
to 2,000 such mortgages.
For first-ti~e home buyers, the added $200 in closing costs
savings would apply to mortgages insured by the Federal Housing
Administration, reducing by a quarter point the current 1.75
percent mortgage insurance premium. This comes on top of $1,200 in
such savings already approved by Clinton.
The one-year pilot "Officer.. Next Door" program would offer up
to 2,000 police officers in low-income neighborhoods the chance to
buy HUD-o.wned homes at half price. with a down payment of only $100.
The idea fs.to·enlarge the community policing concept credited with
helping reduce crime~
. Five cities already have agreed to participate: Cleveland,
Miami-Dade County, Fla; Kansas City, Mo.; Los Angeles and
Springfield, Mass. In all, 24 cities are expected to participate,
according to HUD.
The goal of the Urban Homestead initiative is to narrow the
city-suburban home ownership gap; Now, 72.1 percent of suburban
families own their homes, but only 49.8 percent of city families
do, HUD says. ·
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"We can do more with cities in terms of generating jobs. We
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-Large U.S. cities lost jobs during the past few years, although
12 million jobs were created nationwide during Clinton's first four
years in office.
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. -The poverty rate in cities rose from 14.2 percent in 1970 to.
20.6 percent in 1995, after a slight decline from 21.3 percent in
1993.
-Only 11 of the 30 largest American cities in 1970 have more
people in them today than two decades ago, while even in growing
cities the middle class and wealthy are leaving for the suburbs,
leaving the poor behind.
The administration has asked Congress to approve $2 billion to
eXpand "empowerment zones 11 that provide businesses tax breaks in
exch~nge for locating in inner-city areas. It·also wants $2.6
billion to .clean up "brownfields," formerly industrialized areas
of inner cities.
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. -- (San Francisco) -- With the Summit of the Eight behind him,
President Clinton now turns his attention to the plight of
.hm~rica's decaying inner cities. ~
He's now spending the night in San Francisco, where on Monday
he'll unveil his so-called "urban homestead" at the U-S
Conference of Mayors.
· ._, The president hopes to halt urban flight by encouraging police
officers and working families to move into urban areas.
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His propo~al would give up to two-thousand police officers a
50-percent discount on homes owned by the Department of Housing and
Urban Development. First-time home buyers would receive a
200-dollar break in closing costs. And, working families who now
get federal rental vouchers would be able to use those to purchase
houses instead.
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By LAURA MYERS
Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Looking to breathe new life into big U.S.
cities, President Clinton pledged today to fulfill the promise of
America's vibrant economy by rebuilding the nation's decaying urban
centers.
"We have to create in our cities our national ideal of one
America that crosses all racial, ethnic and other lines, that gives
every child a chance to flourish.and every citizen a chance to·
serve," Clinton told the U.S. Conference of Mayors. "America can
never ft1lfill its coz:nplete promise until all our cities fulfill
theirs.n
He proposed initiatives to encourage inner-city home ownership
to halt urban flight, create new downtown jobs and reinvigorate an
urban landscape plagued by decay and crime.
The Urban Homestead initiatives would give up to 2,000 police
officers 50 percent discounts on purchasing government-owned homes,
provide first-time buyers a $200 break on closing costs and give
working families the chance to move from renters to owners with the
help of federal vouchers.
Clinton said the police plan would build, on the administration's
efforts to put 100,000 new cops on city streets to make communities
safer.
"You have shown me how more police officers on our streets have
made so many of our neighborhoods feel like home again," he told
the mayors. "Just imagine what it will be like when police make
those cities their home."
His speech follows a weekend spent in Denver meeting with the
leaders of the world's largest industrialized nations and Russia.
While in California, Clinton also planned to attend fund-raisers
for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Boxer is facing serious Republican challengers in her 1998
re-election bid.
Before heading back to Washington, Clinton also was visiting a
Los Angeles elementary school to announce that Kaiser Permanente
has agreed to provide $100 million in free health care over the
next five years for up to 50,000 uninsured children annually from
low income families.
All but one of the president's housing initiatives can be done
administratively in the 1998 budget request for the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, a 30 percent increase to $6 billion.
Congress would have to approve legislation to let families
convert HUD Section 8 rental vouchers into "empowerment vouchers"
to pay home mortgages instead. The Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corp., better known as Freddie Mac, would commit. to purchase 1, 000
to 2,000 such mortgages.
For first-time home buyers, the added $200 in closing costs
savings would apply to mortgages insured by the Federal Housing
Administration, reducing by a quarter point the current 1.75
percent mortgage insurance premium. This comes on top of $1,200 in
such savings already approved by Clinton.
The one-year pilot "Officer Next Door" program would offer up
to 2,000 police officers in low-income neighborhoods the chance to
buy HUD-owned homes at half price with a down payment of only $100.
The idea is to enlarge the community policing concept credited with
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Five ciiles already have agreed to participate: Cleveland,
Miami-Dade County, Fla; Kansas City, Mo.; Los Angeles and
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Springfield, Mass. In all, 24 cities are expected to participate;
according to HUD.
The goal of the Urban Homestead initiative is to narrow the
city-suburban horne ownership gap; Now, 72.1 percent of suburban
families own their homes, but only 49.8 percent of city families
,-_ do;.·. HUD says.
.
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"We can do more with cities in terms of generating jobs. We
·
need to use all of our assets, all of our people," HUD Secretary
Andrew Cuomo said today in releasing a report that showed middle
class migration to the suburbs continuing and city poverty rates
rising.
According to the report:
-Large U.S~ cities lost jobs during the past few years, although
12 million jobs were created nationwide during Clinton's first four
years in office.
·
-·-The poverty rate in cities rose from 14.2 percent in 1970 to
20.6 percent in 1995, after a slight decline from 21.3 percent in
1993.
-Only 11 of the 30 largest American cities in 1970 have more
people in them today than two decades ago, while even in growing
cities the middle class and wealthy are leaving for the suburbs,
leaving the poor behind.
The administration has· asked Congress to approve $2 billion to
expand "empowerment zones" that provide businesses tax breaks-in
exchange for locating in inner-city areas. It also wants $2.6
billion to clean up "brownfields," formerly industrialized areas
of inner cities.
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live in cities
In S.F. Visit,
r----------------------l;hnt.oo is scheduled to an·
nounce the p~ in e morning·
epef!ch to more than 300 members
the U.S. Conference of Mayors
at their annual convention in San
Francisco.
· Ibarra said the president will offer federal housing grants to big·
city polioe aa part of a new battle.
plan to combat stubborn ills afflict-
C~nton to unveil
of
plan to house police
where they work
By Stewart M. Powell ··
EXAMIO WI,IH«JTTN IUEAU
I
ing cities c:W;pite the nation's eco·
nomic boom.
Clinton wraps up a three-deY
DENVER - Preaident Clinton i
will unveil a pioneering effort Mon· !
day to enoourege police officere to ·
buy bomea ln the inner-city mtgh·
borhood11 they patrol to boleter,
round-Ute-clock protection iD ur· :
ban areas.
11ae initiative wat outlined to:
The Euminer on Saturday by·
Mickey lhlll'f1l, the aenior preaiden·l
tial-advisor coordinetirig White\
llnU8e Uts with state and ~ guv· i
.
Cllttnenln.
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summit with seven other world
l.e8den here Sunday afternoon be·
fore flying to San Francisco.·
Ibarra said the pUot program of.
federal grant& Clinton ia announc·
ing could provide millions
do\-:
la111 to thouaan.ds of urban police
orfioen to help Ulem buy homes in
or
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Clinton plan to
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A second Clinton admmt~t_ra
tion official, speaking on condit~on ·
of anonymity, said federal housmg
gr811 t.a have never before been offered to police officen._
"The effort will help cities gam
.greater eecurity, because a police
officer is a police officer 24 hours a
day," the senior official said in an
interview.
Effort taken to new left~
The official said federal grant.R
"Any financial 8.88iatance would
be welcome and could benefit the
citie5," Johnson said. ''It'a not go- ·
ing to guarantee better QS.{ety or
security, but the officers could supplement neighborhood watch programs...
Police Capt. Heather Fong, who
lives in The City, said Clinton's.
proposal could help those forced to
the suburbs by housing costa. But,
she added, she wants to make sure
that officen won't be requin!d to
live in San Francisco~
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"Each officer ha.a to make that
decision based on family consider:
ations," Fong aaid.
Mayor Brown, during his 1995
campaign, floated the i~ of ~
centives such as city houemg subsidies to encourage San Francisco's
poliCe .officen to live in The City. '
Brown, on Saturday·, called
Clinton's proposal "an excellent
ide.a. If you're going to do community policing. it's the only way to do
may help police officera meet ~~~
forcing them to live in the c1tie8
theyprotec:t.
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"Mayors have go~e to _gre~t
lengths to keep police m thetr ctties.," the senior official said. ''This
takes that effort to the next leveL"
Mayors, interviewed at their
San Francisco meeting, backed the
it."
Mayor Dennis Archer of Detroit·
president's propoaal.
.
e.aid, "It's very helpful to have po"lf you want to build up the
lice officers living in the communimiddle class, if you want to show
ty that employs them. Neighbors
you care about your city, then city
learn very quickly. It hae a chilling
employees should be. ~uired. to
li.,.e where they wor'k, satd Chtca- · effect on (criminals)."
go Mayor Richard Daley, president
However, Archer said, ''This is
of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
nat anything new or original Chicago, Detroit and Minneapother than the fact the president ie
olis aM! among the cities with laws
announcing it, and that is powerrequiring m08t municipal emp~
ful."
ees, including police officers, to hve
In his Monday speech to the
in their respective cities. Minneapmayors, Clinton also ia expected to
olis ulso offers favor8hle rate rnort- announce a plan to reduce the
~es to help city employees buy . amount of fuumcing that borrow. ers would have to pay to get Federhomef!.
. Daley &Bid Clinton's propo_sed al Housing Administration-insured.
pilot. program might prove partlCU- mort.g"llgeS for inner-city homes.
larly helpful to a city s~ch as ~an
The plan seeks to make home
.
Francisco, which has htgh housmg 1More
affordable
for lowownership
C06ts and is barred by state law
and middle-income familiea, the
from imposing a residency requiresenior official said, adding: 'We
ment.
think the reduction will be a signif~tudjes have ahown about twoitallt amount of money for families
thirds of The City's police officeN
that are looking for affordable
livt> outside San Francisco. But
houaing."
more and more of those recently
hired by the dspartlnent a~e ~
ing their homes in The Ctty, satd
San Francisco .police Sgt. Steve .
Johnson, secretary o£ the Police
Officers Association.
.
Johnson said he, too, likes the
concept of the reds helping officers
find affordable housizlg whe~ they
wc•rk.
.
Cotabatlal grMn crime
Ibarra. the White Howe official.
noted that last year the nation saw
the steepest decline in violent
crime in 35 years. But he added
that persuading. po~~ officer:s .to
live in the nation s mner c1t1e8
could help combat the urban crime
that peniet.a.
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"The goal is to make hou~mg
available at a significartt reduction
in cost to pol-ice officers who
choose to live in the eity," Ibarra
said.
Many police officers wo~ing i~
large cities have settled thetr fs.nu·
lies in nearby suburbs because they
."just can't afford to buy homes in
the city and they have concern&
about crime in the neighborhoods
where -thsy can afford to buy a
home," Ibarra said.
Ibarra said that the administra- ·
ti.on hopes to "provide economic
incentives that will provide a nudge.
to help get police officers to remain
·in citiea."San Francisco police Officer
Rich Jue, working at the mayora'
gathering at the Fairmont Hotel,
aaid the incentives 'lllould have to
be very good to make it a!fordable
for his family to li~ in The City.
"You go to the Richmond District, where you get a one-bedroom
for $300,000," Jue said. "Out of
town. ru get a three-bedroom and
a big back yard (for the same
price)."
Ibarra declined to di!ICUSi details of Clinton'• plan. He said the
initial program will be financed
with money already requested
from Congress rather than aeeking
additional funds from the Republican-led Congresa.
''We are not going to set our
aighta beyond a realistic approach," lbarra said. ''Initially tb.s
program is going to be aomewhat
modest."
.
The White Hou•e aide aaid
Clinton administration policies
have "revened• a et.eady decline in
the economic fortunes suffered by
citiea in the 1970& and 1980s, but
he added. "We still have a way to
go in our cities. Thel:e'e no doubt
that. American cities are at a c::roasroad.. If we. do nothing, they certainly are going to decline."
He said Clinton in San Francis' co on Monday will "be articulating
, _. a battle plan, if you will. to addresa aome o( theie conoema..•
R4c~l Gordon ond. Gf'egory
LewiJr
.. of. The..Emmi.nef' •t..aff con-
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• SPOTLIGHT: On Treasure Island. w.here the mayors will
have lunch and become extras in a movie, and the Presidio.
where Brown's 6 a.m. tour ends after a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge .
... TRAFFIC WATCH: This Is a day to avoid bridges- the
Golden Gate and roads through the Presidio In the morning.
and the Bay Bridge in the afternoon .
..,.. SERIOUS ISSUE: Urban parks. A ·conven~atlon· headed by
Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-Aiaska. chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources- and a
major figure in the wrangling to create the trust to run the
Presidio national perk.
·
..,.. TOP PARTY: The mayors will catch the ferry across the Bay about 5 p.m. for an
evening performance of CirQue d~ Solell at Oakland's Jack London SQuare.
Monday
Cirque du Solell
President Clinton
..,.. SPOTLIGHT: On President Clinton, with racism. education end welfare reform likely
to be the topics .
..,.. TRAFF1C WATCH: Nob Hill will be even more difficult to drive than usual- Clinton is
expected to speak at 9:30 a.m. at the Fairmont. Lunch traff•c in
tl"'e Rnanclal District may be slowed by the president's trip to the
Hyatt Regency at the Embarcadero for a reception about noon.
• SERIOUS ISSUE: Housing. Secretary of Housing ana Urban Oewlopment Andrew Cuomo addresses the mayors. At 2 p.m ..
Brown leads a "living in The City" tourofYerba Buena Gardens, the
museums and some of The City's affordable housing projects .
..,.. TOP PARnES: The mayors take over Chinatown for a 7:30 p.m.
New Year's-st.yle parade and banquet at Empress of China restaurant. Brown has scheduled receptions at 5:30p.m. at the Carnelian Room atop the Bank of America Building and from 10 p.m.
bclrewCuolltO
to midnight at the Fairmont.
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FOCUS ON: U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS
Cfutton Reveals $675 Million
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N THE HEELS of a fedenlatudJ
King, mayor vi Gur.lnd. ..lt iaju&t goo4 to have
llhowiq continued declinem Ameri- .
a president who ia res)II08Sive to Ulbanc:a's urban centers. President BiD C1inc:ommunitieL"
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ton on Monday uoveiled a $675 miDion
Clarence Harmon said he
plan to help nurse cities back to hel1th. .
wu "caudaUslJ optimlatic11 about Cinton'a PfO'
"J believe fervently that America cannot fulfiJl
srams and the benefits they could briDe to St. .
it..; r.omplete promise until aU of our cities rwfiO
Louis. 'OJ tJDpk 1t is impanaat to hue a president
theirs," Clinton said in a speEd to the U.S.
talkin~ about tJUa ~we are coafmnted
Conference of Mayors.
rib a lot ci problems in the cities today,..
The pre;idr!nt outlined a series d. progr2ms,
lJatmoo said.
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including mortgage breaks to city home buye(S. · . He pointed oot, bowever. that Missowi bas
increasing business opportunity with more em- . · . been experimentiq with~ ho\JSine casts
powennent 1011et ind encooraging police cif"tann inducement to pt. police into neishbor:cus to Jive in cities with a half-price aale for..
boada amce 1992, ''and DDt widl very much
them on govemmentoOWDed houses, courtesy of
~. Much mthe houliJll Uult became avail-'
the ~rtrnent of Housing and Urban .. .
able wa5 DOt the best stock."=· ·;..,.
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neve opment. .
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llaraDl said the so pep:eDt cilcount in the
Cltllil•lO petl:8llt increa:~e in the number of
..esidelit's)llm is more attnctive tban the _
police offic:er& on tbe street sioce 1992, Clinton
Said: "I want to increase that presence even .
more by getting police to live in the c:mnnumitiel
St."'*..,.
where they serve."
The "Officer Next.l)oQr'' ~ "will make
, _ -it~ for pOlice
·· cera and their J.amities to
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mourceutnl cities at a 50 pem!!llt
diacount." CintoD aid.
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was seaenlly 'WU1Dly recei'red by mayma wbo said
they viewed hiinn andy.
despite hia ckciiAon last
to sign t1le
reform bilL Many IIIIFCJI'B
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sioo, saying it will represent acJditiooal hardsblps ·
for cit it:$ where there are hiab cmcentrationa ci
poor.
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·may have greater·
success.
The police housing
program, available to
up to 2.000 afficera,
wiD be made available
first in Kansas City,
Cleveland, M-..ami-
~County, Los AJJ..
geles
Mas!l..and Springfield, .
Clinton cangratulat·
ed the mayon lor the
advances cities have
made with declining
unemployment and
·crime rates. But he
also noted the problems that remained.
•·we must deal with
the continued flight of
the middle class to the
Sl.lburbs," he said. ''We
must deal with the poor.·
Performance ot too
many schools, with the
health problems of too
many people who live
in cities, and perhaps
most important of all, ·
with the continuing it;o.
Jation of the poor in our
cities.''
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One of tile chief ele-
ol the Citiea report found a 50 pertent ~
in urban poverty, riaina to'21.5 percent in 1993
from 14.2 ~t in·1970. Poverty has grown
more c:cacem:tated in ilmer cities in that time, as
well. Ten percent of .aD city residents Jive in ·
CaliUI tracts•~ the poverty rate is more
than 40 perce,,l
The study alSo ccmfirmed that'most ri the jobs
driving metropolitan ecooomic growth.today are
being eaenetmct in the suburbs, aDd that.19 of.
rhe 30 .la,rgest dties ill the COWltry bave Joat
'- population aince 1970•
.
· · .Hannon said that three of every four jobe
· created in the St. Louis rcgioo WeR being createa in its suburbs. •
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Aa:erdilrlll the HUD study, from 1970 to
1990 tbe number of employed Urban resicleam
grew by 76 .J)el'tent. while employment in .imJer.
eitiea wu up just 25 percent.
That reality makes it J)ltticuJarly dif6cuft to
deaf with the expeaect pressures of wd(are ·
reform, ~will send ue3rly 1 uUUion welf.are
recipients onto tbe job JD4rket in the next five · ·
. yeara,
. "It'a awfully frigbteiun,," Harmaa said, ''bea&use no one really lmowl what to apec;t. ••
Despite. their big list ol proble.nJ, many.
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ments of the presi·
dent's plan involves
getting people to live in
cities.
"Homeownenbip is
one <i the most CID·
powering things we can
do for anyone," lie saki,
" ••• but you and I
know not enough
homeowners are in our
cities.''
Clinton's Orban Homesteading proposal will
reduce tbe premiums on F1L\ mortgageS, cutting closing costs oo bomes ill ~ties. The r~
tion ol about $200 in closing costA will he the .
third in reamt yean, Clinton said. The qet
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eflect. he sbf. will be atxxrt $1,400 k:M in
do&ing costs for firit-time home.~L
AlllltiMw PI OJ I Ill will allow Jow-wqe work-.
ers to use VOI.IClM:rs from the Sectioa 8 rental
subsidy program to buy homes.·
ClinLon's anoouoc:t".meut followed the release
o~ study by HUD that eoocluded that afU!r
years or J)el'$istent decline, the nation's dtiea
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"I think it's roina- to have ·a real
Clinton unveils
inner-city plans
ed. "The discount on the house ~nn
be equal to their annual salary;•
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Jn. Detroit. police oCfirer5 are required to live in the city.·
.
~ tliJuJd aid home buym
Mayor Emanuel Cleaver II of Kansas City, Mo., said his dty offers
police a 25-percent subsldy for home
purchases in inner·dty neighbM-
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A.-.-.r . rmanc:Uil~ageno/
Jo'reddir, ;;raewiU
finance anncr-\.,ty home purchases
F""" "'-W.oshinjllall lWf
pnpact. People want to live next to n
polite officer," he said, adding 1hat
their presence would enhance. the
accurity of inner-city neighborbood11.
For the pollee; "50 percent iS a
real financial incentive,• Cuomo not-
h_oods. and 18 officers have taken
advantage of iL He. too, defended
SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to en- for up to 2.000 low·incomc families Clinton's propo~~at
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~ stability in the United State!'' nationwide.
How~r. two national advocates
inner cities, Presiden~ Bill·ctinton an
The three new progrnmM; which · fo~ U.S. cities said Monday they were
Monday offered a bonus of about 'do not need approval from Congress. nonpluSRed by Clinton's plan.
$200 to lirst·time purchasers of .wiD cost the govcrnmenl $700 miJ.
For one thing, 2,000 homt~buyiu~
homes there.
· Uon. Clinton Cerrned it a •down lll!Y- Jl!llke officens can hardly make murh
That was the widest-reaching of ment toward our priority of siren~ d!~ferenc.e i( .they're spread out in
three modest initiatives Clinton un- e.ning our cities family by family:
':ties nationwtde, said Chris Wlllkcr,
veiled in a s~ to the U.S. Confer- . . Mayor James Sins Jr. of Wilming·. d1rector of the community developence of Mayon.
ton. Del., seemed to reflccl th~ ~ ·!Dent propam !or the Urban Inst.itlle
The bonus would come from re- vailing sentiment of his peer.; in wcl- . m Wash111gton. The private think
· duced closing costs for home pur- coming Cinton's programs. despite tank ~~public policy.
chases financed by the Federal Hou!r their modest reach.
"B.g deal Bttr deal. Let's be reaii."'
ing Administration. .
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•Overall, I was impressed.~ sms tic ~ere,• Walker said Monday of rhe
A second initiative would give Jo- said.' Defendint the •Officer Next po6~ home-buy!ng incentive.
cal police who buy homes from the · ~ initia!ive, Sills aaid, •u·s limit- . Arid that means looking at the big
·D~artment of Housing and Urban ed in scope. but if it w~ state and PJcture~ Arnold Hamm, presidenr ~>f
Development a 50-percent discount local governments will push it for- the. Nationil Urban Affairs Council in
ward: .
Plainfield, NJ., said Monday;
. · HUD ·Sccretarv Andrew Cuomo,
•& OpPosed to just thruwin~ a
traveling witli the pre!lidf'Jlt, said ihe ff!W crumbs out. there needs to·be a
program will expand .if .Joc.·aJ police ·comprehensive plan,_- said Hamm, ·
take advantage of tht: pilot project.
whose group coordmates cultural
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programs for urban children.
Both advocates were just as un·
moved by Clinttm's plan to award
S200 to first..tiQ'IC borne buycts.
"That's two speeding tickets. It's
not &'Oini to make or break home
OWJM!f'Ship,• Walker aaid. .
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on the house's list price• .Within the·
n~ year, ~ hoJie!' to place l,ooO
. pol1ce officers m houses it owns. · .
· ~n.der a third pilot program, Clinton I!IMOUnced lhallhe quasi-federal
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June 24, 1997
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KENTUCKY
STATE
OFFICE
Clinton offers plan
·to sell urban hOuses
to police at discount
By TERENCE HUNT
Americans had just simply given up
on the prospect of our cines.••
SAN FRANCISCO - President
Clinton encouraged the nation's mayars yesterday by declaring "our cities
are back'' and announcing modest
initiatives to make Americans feel
safer in low- and rnoderare-income
urban neighborhoods.
Cuomo of the Housing and Urban De- .
Associa.red Press
The centerpiece
n~ door''
\V8S
program,
the ..officer
off~ police
50 percent discounts on 2,000 governrnent-owned homes, particularly in.
large cities with high crime rates. The
aim is to increase the visibility of police in troubled areas by moving them
into long-vacant homes.
''It will be some of the best money
me federal government ever spent."
Clinton said in a speech to the U.S.
Conference of Mayors.,.
Initially, the program will. be avail.
able in Cleveland; Miami·Dade County; Kallsas City, Mo.;· Los. Angeles;
and Springfield, Mass.
·
The president also promised to give
first-time hom~buyers a $200 break
. on closing costs for living in the mostpopulous cities and to offer wor!ting
farili.lies the chance to move from
renting to owning with the help of
federal vouchers.
ClintOn focused on good news: fall.
ing crtme rates and unemployment
down by a third in the 50 largest
cities. "What a long way we nave.
come," CliDton said. ••tt wasn't so
very long ago that huge numbers .of
However, Secretary Andrew
velopmem. Department released-a report showing that problems continue.
It said middle-dass migration to the
suburbs is continuin~city poverty ·
rates are rising. and
e cities lost
jobs even as 12 million jo s were <:r!a!ed nationwide.
·Democrats and some Republicans
welcomed Clinton's amw~cemenf
with enthusiasm.
·
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· "His plan is fabulous,•• said Republican Mayor James Garner of Hempsread, N.Y. "It is sensitive to the
needs of our cities.,
Chicago Maror Richard Daley, the
outgoing president of the . mayors'
conference. said, '"'he president's Utitiatives show thai he is with us.".
But Rep. Rick Lazio of New York.
chairman of the House subcommittee
on ho~ ana community opportU·
Dity, and Rep. J"un Talent of MiSso\lli.
cbairman of tbe Committee on Small
Business, said ·many of Clinton's pro- .
posals already were under consideration by RepublicaDS in Congress.
Clinton cautioned mayors that Con·
gress is b~ away from promised
tax incentives lor cities to clean up
"brown fields" - formerly industrial·
i%ed areas of inner cities - and to
expand .,empowerment zones" that
give businesses tax breaks in exChange for .locating in Imler-city
areas.
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Theihree new programs, whlch
enoourage stability ln America's de not need approval tram Qmcelitral clties, President Clinton gress. will cost the govermnart a
on :Mond!lf off'ereiJ a b~mus of total or $700 miUioo. Clinton
about $200 to flr.o;l-tlJne purchasers termed· it a "dowo payment
orbomes there. ·
towara our priority o! •trenKtbenThat was the wJAWt-readl.lng or Jng our cfties family by family.''
modest lnltlatlve.s CllntoD
BUD Secretary A:ndrew Cuomo.
unveUed ·in a s_peech to the U.S. b'avellng witlJ the 1Jl'1!8ident. ll81ll
Couii!rence oi Ma}'Ors.
the program wiU expand H local
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Tiie bonus would come trom pollee 1ake adVIIJI.tage ar 1he pllot
redUced closing costs .ror llorue pro]ect.
purchases 11nanced by the .Federal
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impact People WBJlt to liw next to a }l011ce officer," be Mid, add·
mortgage :premiums by one-qoar- tng that tbeir presence wo-uld
ter of 1 percent ror purcbases .iD enhanre the security aod Bhbility·
desqinated areas or 524 u.s: cities. cl'inner-clty nelgbborhcodli. ·
!i'h~t. adminiStration estimates this
Far tfJ2 }lOUce, "'00 ~t .18 a
Raulal phOto
=.saw the average bomebuyer real Jlnan~=u~.:OOUIO President CUitton on MondaY addresses the U.S.,Cooference Mayors In San Francisco, whete he out: K second Jnit1at1ve, dubbed the :::,_~·~ to theironmnual
lined tru"ee prowams ~imed at lnaeasif!g heine ownetSttlp In rundown neighborhoods or CitJes.
f'omcer Next Door" program, · ary."
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The alin af tbe program ls .. to Re,pubitcan Mayor· JIIJiles A. Gar· Ra~ Derending the "omcer Nm
•'WbUe I am _pleasOO. tbal after
homes in. such areas :from the increase the visibility <!!pollee' .In ner oCHentpatead. N.Y. "'t la seo· Door" .J.nltlalive. SJlJs sald...It's flve years 1l!1s adminlstratlon Ja
Dej!lirtme:nt or HDusiD.If snd Ur'blm troubled B.nla& by JiloviDg 1hem · sttive 1o the 11eedB of our ci.H~
llmlted. in 8CIC.Pf!, but if it waru, JlnaDy fbcusfng on 1he op_porltml·
;Development a 50 percent rlts- into 1Dng-V3Cilltlwmes.
Cbkago Mayor .Ri.l:hard Daley, state and local governments wiD Hes tn many or our citlea. I am
CD Unl on fbe house•s llst prJce.
InJtfally. the ]IOlfce..housing :pro- presldcot or the mayor•a Confur• pWib Jt forwanl"
concerned 1llat this .IJt'O.Posal Js
Orir the next }-ear, BUD ho.ves to gnuu -wUL be available 1n Cleve- enca. said. -rile presldimt'B IDJtlaBut Rep Rick Le.zio, cluurman .1itfle more tlum rhetorical grandplace 1,000 pollee officers in lsod; Mlaml~ade County; Xlmsaa tiVI!6 shaw filat be 1!1 wilh 11& The Of the lluuse llllbCommitlee on stand.fng." La.zlo said .In a slate.
hotises U owns.
City; :Mo.; Los Angeles; and federal government b a btg · housiJJB and llODilllllDity oppartu. ment
lJnder a Ol.ii'd pJJot program, Sprinalleld, Mass.
bureaucn.cy but 1h& :president has nlty, and Rep. Jim Talent. 1ho
CliDfon cautlaned. that Congress
Clinton announced thai ilie quasi·
DBIDocrats and some Re:pubU· alWBYB been with us.'"
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Commltte11 on Small Business
backing away from tax J.ncenfed~al financ.lal agency Freddie cans welcomed Clinton's
"OVerall, I was lmpressed," chairman, said the proposals tives fbr cities .to clean up ''brown
Mar: wm fbwJce lnn&Nlty home announcement 'With enlhllB!a.sm.
Mayor James R Sills Jr. ofWilm- already were under consideration 1'1elds..-lonnerly i.ndnslrla!lzed
areas or inner cltifB. ·
:pui'cbases lor up lo 2,000 low".His pian Js !abuious," said tngton. DeL, aaJd d'CliDton's mes; by Rep•lblk'.ans.1n_Coqress..
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Tuesday. June 24, 1997
Prez seeking urban renewal
Touts ideas to lure back middle class
Daily News Wu-e ServU:es
SAN FRANCISCO - Looking to breathe life into U.S. cities, President Clinton is proposing steps to
·· attract the middle class back to the urban underside.of America's otherwise glowing economy.
In a speech to the U.S. Conference ofMayors yesterday, the president touted initiatives to encourage
inner--city homeownership as a way to halt urban flight and reinvigorate downtowns plagued by decay and
crime. Such initiatives are sorely needed in Philadelphia, which is losing many residents.
The Urban Homestead initiatives would give up to 2,000 police officers· 50 percent discounts on
purchasing government-owned homes; provide first-time buyers a $200 break on closing costs; arid give
working Wnilies the Chance to move from renters to owners with the help feder31 vouchers.
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Philadelphia's population is expected to drop during the 1990s from 1.5 million to 1.39 million.
The city haS lost 100,000 jobs since 1988.
Many of the residents and jobs have been chased away by c:ri.me concerns, high taxes and failing public
schools.
John Kromer, city director of housing, said any initiative to boost homeownership is welcome. All but
one of the president's housing initiatives can be implemented administratively. Congress would have to
approve legislation to let fiunilies convert HUD Section ~ rental vouchers into '' empowennent vouchers''
to pay home mortgages instead.
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The one-year pilot ''Officer Next Door" program would offer up to 2,000 police officers in low-income
neighborhoods the chance to buy HUD-owned homes at half price with a down payment of$100. The
idea is to boost the community policing concept. FIVe cities already have agreed to participate: Cleveland, .
Miami-Dade County, Fla; Kansas City, Mo.; Los Angeles and Springfield, Mass. HUD said 24 cities are
expected to participate.
The goal of the Urban Homestead initiative is to nam>w the city-suburban home ownership gap; Now,
72.1 percent of suburban families own homes, but 49.8 percent or city families do~ HUD says.
According to the report:
• Large cities lost jobs during the past few years, although 12 million jobs were created nationwide
dUring Clinton's first four years in office.
· • The poverty rate in cities rose from 14.2 percent in 1970 to 20.6 percent in 1995, after a slight decline
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poor behind.
Staff writer Paul Davies contributed to this report.
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promotes
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ownership
By Stewart M: Powell
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.::;:-aPresldeGt
Cllnlon, ~on a~
"You have shOwn me haw more
police oflieers on our streets have
made ilo many of our oelgj~
· feel IDle boa1e again, w •
told
the mayOn..•Just Imagine what it
will be like when mon: police make
those neighborliDOCII their homes
again."
· Housing Secretary Andrew
Cu01110 IIIia the gowmment'a sale.
o1 foreclosed properties muld pro-·
vide pulice an illc:eutive. wortb 88
much u one 1fM's salary.
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AdminisuaLion officials said 24
jurisdictions are llllpected to late
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on - Cleveland; Loa Angeles; Miami-Dade County, Pla.; Kansas aty,
Mo., and Springfield, Mass.
ClidLon also ordered HUD to cut
mortgage lnsu~e premiums,
DOW 1.75 (lllrCleD~ by a quarll!r-point
for first-time hllltll!buyvs in 1IIJll!l'
dty oeighbo.rhooda. The cut would
dQ~e president told more l.ban 3011 save them $200, briaaiog to $1,400
I1UiyO($ at an annual meetiDg of the
tbe total reductioll b:J ekisillg costs
U.S. Confermlee o1 M~ that that Clinlon has appmed for such
boosting home ownership ill the key homebuyen~ who ob1ain 81lllveJ:118e
to reviving bligbted cities that have Federal Housing Adminiatnltion
lost mWIOns Of mlddle-c:lass resl· ~ge ol $85,0001 olfldab Hid.
deata to lbe suburbs over the last
Cliittiin said he &.ISO would seet
genera&ion.
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congresaional appavva1 to penult
· "We have to recugnize lbat ll tenants using -federal bouaing
doesn't matter how rich we are, It vouchers to rent private apartments
doesn't maUer bow auccesslul we to use the vouchers
to pay
are if we keep raising generation home mortgages.
after generation of ~ ehlldren ·
T!Je Fedenil Home Loan MortUsat are IILerally pbysac~ Isolated gage Corp., kllown 88 Freddie Mac,
from lbe · rest · ol ua. Clinlou has pledged to pun:hase up to 2,000
warned, adding "America can never such mo~gages In a demonstration
fulfiU its complete promise until aU program 1f Consress approves his
our cities fulfill theirll.•
request, Clinton said.
Over the last quarter-cenlwy the
The While House has asked
nation's suburban population hat; $6 billion lor HUD in the fiscal 1998
grown 10 times fasler than that of: budget, a 30 percent Increase over
Ute cities. Nineteen of the 30 largest .last year.
cities in 1970 have recorded a net 1 Clinloo sought to build support
loss of residents since U~en.
f'!r hla effort by jliljnting a &lark
Clinton's lhree-eart "urban ptcl.ure of the potenlial racial and
homestead Initiative offers. $700 ethnic strains U18t awaillbe nation
million in new incentives for Ame.ri- unless authorities overcome the
cans to buy homes In Inner city staggering economic and scx:iallsoneighborhoOds. Qinton noted that lation alfl1c:ting impiM!rished inner
49.8 percent of dly farnilil!$ own
city residents.
their own homes comparetl with
"No one, I would r;ay virtuaDy no
72.1 percent of suburblin families. one, has stopped lo think about
He said his goal Is lo boost home what America will be Uke In a
ownenhip so thallhe city f.gure is 1eneraUon," Clinton cautioned.
c1a&er to the suburban nwnber.
~d you say, well. you know, BasThe initiative is pari of a second- · rua at least couldn't happen bere.
tenn effort lo •atrenalhen our citJes • .. But don't forget hOW quickly
family-by-lamUy" 110lbat"our cities people who liYe together as neighbecome places that anybody would bors for generallon an.er generatiOn
be proud tn caD home," Clinton said. have lurited on each other in Africa
He ordered the Department of and ~a.:
Housing and Urban Development to
Clinton Sllld bis urban uutiative:s
juggle exlaUng f~ from Con- ~~- helpdoven;ome the stubborn
gress to underwrite an •offiCe!'· """~ an ~ dlYislona that
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We ~a chance !0 .rewnle the
government lo about 2,ooo lice rules of human evolution -:- almost
olfu:eB at ball the appraised
by bulldl~ '!te wvrtd'!l (J~ truly
great mulUraaal, muiUeUwc deOtncm:s could buy HUD-owned mocraq, and It will have to be done
l!CJmes 'With a down payment of as In the c1lies where the people ace."
liWe as t 100.
he said.
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West, launched an "urttaD homestead" Initiative yesterday to draw
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He focused on good new1: falling
crime ra.tea nnd unetnployment
down by a third in the 6() lal"gest
cities. "What a lr:mg way we huve
come," Clinton sold. "It Wtusn 't so
very long ago that huge nW1iliers of
American& hadju$t simplyJ~ivon up.
on the pros~t or our cities."
At the sarne time, Housing and
Urbo.n Development Secretary ADdrew Cuomo •·elea.scd a report
showing that some problemA •
continue. It sttid middlc-clOJ!e
migration to the suburbs is
continuing, city poverty retes
ore rising and lal'g& cities lost
jobs even aa 12 million jobs
wero created nationwide.
Den1ocrats nnd some Hepublicans welcomed Clinton's
announcement.
"His plan is fabulous," said
Republican Mayor Jotne11 A.
Garner of Hempstead. "It ia
sensitive lo the needs of Our
cities.''
Chicago Moyor Richat"d Da·
Pbo\a ley, president of the mayors'
Cllntgn speaks to mayors in Sao Fr1nclaco.
conference, 68id, "The president's initiatives show th.oJ
in lllrge cities with high crime rat ea. he· is with Ull. The federal govern·
The aim is to increase the visibility rnent is a big bureaucracy, but the
of police in troubled areaa by moving president has always been with u11."
However, Rep. Rick Lazio (Rthem into long-vllCant homes.
"It will bo some of the best mon- Brightwotera), chairm.an of the
CJ.Y the federal government evet· House subcommittee on houfllog
spent," Clintonsaid in o speech to and community opportunity, and
the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The Rep. Jim Talent (R-Mo.), chairman
p1·eeident said the pltm, which ini· of the Committee on Small Busi.ti&lly will be a.vallabJe in Cive city ness, said mony ofClint.on'll pl·opoaarens that do not indude New York, ale' already were UI\der consider·
builds on hia effort& to put 100,000 ation by Republican~~ lh Congress.
new police officeta on city streets.
Clinton cautionl!d mayors that
Clinton also promised to givo Congress is backing away from
lirtit-tirue home-buyers on average promi&ed tax incentivea for cities to
$200 brealc on closing costs, based clean up "brown field!"- formerly
on n cut In the Faderal Hou.eing Ad-. industrialized areas of Inner citi~s
ministration's mortgage in~Jurance - and to expond "empowerment
p•·emiwn~, for living in the most·
zones" that pmvide buf;inessoe tax
populous cities and to provide bt·etlks in ~change for locating in
working families who now are runt· inner-city ue~.
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San ft·ancisco - Pt·esident Bill
Clinton cheered the nation's may·
ora yesterday by dcclsring "our·
cities ant back" .an.d announcing
:modest initiatives to ll'lt\ke Ameri·
CW"\9 feel ~;afe1· in low- and moderate-income w·boo neighborhoods.
The centerpiece - the "officer
next door" pl'ogran\ - oiTers police
qO pO!rcent diaoounts on 2,000 gov·
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DENVER -·Addressing the
plight o( America's decaying
and . dangerous citie.1. Presi·
dent Clinton Is scheduh!ff to
announce plans today to help
working families and police
officers becon1e urban home-
owners.
The proposal would award
as Jnany as 2,000 police officers a 50% discount on innercity homes owned by the De·
partment ,ot Housing and
Urban Development. In addi·
tio.q, first-time buyers would
get a new $200 break in closing
costs, and working families
who now got rental vouchers
from Washington could use
those to purchase houses instead.
Clinton, flnlshfng a meeting
With leaders of the . world's
largest lodu.strialized nations
in Denver. planned to unveil
his Urban tlomestend lnltiaUves to the U.S. Conference of
Mayors in San Francisco.
Housing Secretary Andrew
Cuomo, who also planned to
release a BUD report on inner
cities today, yesterday hailed
the Initiatives as a wa~.to halt
urban flight and lure middleclass Americnns back to cities.
"Cities are doing much better," Cuomo said In a telephone interview from San
Francisco. HPoverty is down,
unemployment is down. But
there are ·some real challenges that remain. .
"We can do more with cities
in terms of generating jobs.
We need to use all of our assets, all of our ..Peopre." .
All but one of the Initiatives
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out new legislation, according ;;
to White House officials.
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Congress would have to ap- ~
prove a bHI allowing families :.S
to convert Section 8 HUD rent· "'
•I vouchers into "empowerment vouchers" to pay house •
mortgages instead. As part of
that proposal, Fr,..ddie Mac, ~
tile Federal Housi.n ! \dminis- :).
tration, would PI' r .::hase as ~
many as 2,000 mort&-lges dedi- c..
cated to the'program.
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Police to become more visible
Clinton plan: has officers living, working. in same community
By TERENCE HUNT .
The Associated Press
. SAN FRANCISCO -
President Clinton
cheered the nation's mayors Monday by declaring "our cities are back" and announcing
modest initiatives to make Americans feel
safer in low- and moderate-income urban
neighborhoods.
The centerpiece was the ..officer next
door.. program, offering police SO percent
discounts on 2,000 government-owned homes,
particularly in large cities with · high crime
rates. The aim is to increase the visibility of
pollee in troubled areas by moving them into .
long-vacant homes.
uit will be some of the best money the federal government ever spent.'' Clinton said in a
speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
The president also promised to give rll'Sttime home buyers a $200 break on closing
costs for living in the most-populous cities
and to provide working families the cl:wJce to
. move from renters to O\\ners with th~ help of
· federal vouchers.
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Democrats and some Republicans welcomed Clinton's announcement with enthusi·
asm.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, president
of the mayor's conference, said. "The president's initiatives show that he is with us: The
federal government is a big bureaucracy but
the president has always been with us."
However, Rep Rick Lazio, chairman of the
House subcommittee on hotJsing and community opportunity, and Rep. Jim Talent, chair-
WILFREDO lEE In_. A.-fillet Preu
President Clinton holds up Sen. Barbara Boxer's hand during a fund-raising luncheon Mon·
day in San Francisco.
man of the Committee on Small Business,
said many of Clinton's proposals already
were under consideration by Republicans in
Congress.
Clinton said the police-housing plan builds
on his effons to put 100,000 new police offi.
cers on city streets.
Initially, the program will be available in
Cleveland; :Miami-Dade County; Kansas City,
Mo.; Los Angeles; and Springfield, Mass.
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low-inetlme familieR.
SAN FHANCISCO - In a gl!)()m~ nss£'RSClinton's Rpeech to the Boxer fund-raiRer
nwnt of th~ mood in th£' nation·!! capital, came amid increasing acrimony between
J•r.,~idt•nt Clinton spoke out Monday about White Hou~e and Capitol ·mu over the budthe "tfi.,.·iRive, de~;lructivc political climate" get and taxes and a recent accusation by
and fH'oplc who would "dri\'~ a stnke in· the Senate Majority l-eader Trent Lou, R-Misa.,
.1Jirit fl(the Am.-rican people:·
that the president was "a spoiled brat" who
Ruhdu('cl :and renecti\'1.'. Clinton com· always wanted hi~ wny.
plainrrl nbuuf. thoRC who dwell on the
Th~ president Rald Boxer, a !!launch libernRtiun·s Rhorlcomingfl rnthcr than· I he boom- al. was nn uplifting spirit in the ·St-oate. "If
in~ l'rrmnmy, who lUI<' :lO-Sf't'ond attack adR
we brought th11t kind of Rpirit into all of our
and lll'lii"V(' thal nny tm:tir ill act·cptable to
endeavors instead of thinking about how we
l>l!al an OJ)ponent.
"Yuu know. vou li~tt·n l11 Rome of these oould drive a stake in the spirit of the AmeriflMPI<' t11lk in·· the oation'11 capital. you~d can people for our own short-tenn advanhavt> no problem,;,"
think that thPy ,;pent !.ht- whol<' morning la~. this rountry would
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!lllckiog lrmon!(," tht> prl.'~idt'nl J;aid. He did he. said.
In hiF- speech to the mayors, Clinton also
ll(lt !lay wtio he wa!l talking aboul.
r.linton spoke at 11 fund-raiRer for Sen. promised to give lint-time home buyen a
Rnrh;~ra Boxer, D.Calif., io San Francisco af. 1200 break on d08ing coRf...q for living in the
f<'r an addr~.'!S to tbe nation·a mayors where rnoat populous cities and to provide working
h" ;moounced modest new initiativ~s to families the chance to move from renters to
nmlu> Americans feel Flarer in low- and owners with the help of redcral vouehers.
Rep. Rick La:tio, R-N.Y., chainnan of the
moderate-income urban nPi~hborboods. ··
Th(' C't'llfl"rpit>ee wa11 thr "ttffit'l.'r next door.. Houae t~uboommjttee on hou~ing a.nd rommu·
nity oppm1unity, and Rep .•Jim Talent. RJ)P'Ilgr:\111, nfft•ring po)jcp fi() IJI'T'Ct'nt·di~t'nUntJI
on ~.uno government-owned home.q, part.icu· Mo., ehainnan of lhe House Small BUI;iness
IMI:-" in lar~e t'ities with high crime rates. Committee, said many of Clinton's proposal a
The aim i9 to increase the villihility or police already were under consideration by Repubin troubled a.reAR, living in home~ that have licans in CongreRif.
Clintnn focu!!ed on good newa: falling
long O('en vacant.
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l-ater, the preRident Oew lo l.o!'; Angeles to crime rates and unemployment dnwn by a
Announce at an elementary ~hool that. the third in the 50 largeftt cities. "What a long
Kai.c;t•r l)ermancntt> h<'nlth rare organization way we hRvc come," he said. "It wa11nl ~o
very lnng ago that huge numbers of Ameriha~> a~:tr<'ed to pl'ovidl• $100 million in free
hraJth Cf\TC over tht' nl'!tl fh•e ~l'!lrt~ ror Up to cans had ju!lf ~imply given up on tht' prnR;,rt_(lotu nnin!'ured ('hildr('n annuAlly .. from
pect of our citil'R."
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Las Vf!9as already Is on lrack witll a nationin~iated by President Clinton to oflef
more affordable housing lo rlrst·time home
buyers and improve community policing in
lnner-cily areas. county officials said Monday.
Clinlon's p4an calls lor reduced closing
costs lor firsi·Ume home buyers purctlaslng In
the lnner-ci1y who finance !he house under
Fedefal Housir~g Administration guidelines.
Additionally, the proposal allows Section 8
vouchers robe used towArd the mortgage.
Since Apri 1996. 16,000 tamilies have
boi.J'9h' homes through the FannleMae Foundation. The housing company par1nered with
the city of las Vegas, banks. lenders and
go.,.rnment entities to help low·income buy·
ers, said Charlene Peterson, direclor tor lhe
Nevada Par1nership ollice of the loundation.
Fannie Mae olfers several programs to help
first-time home buyers. For example. Fannie
Mae 97 requires only 3 percent down instead
of 5 percent or as mtJCfl as 20 percenl.
Neighborflood Advantage 123 allows up lo
. 3 percent ol the down payment to be borrowed or cha•ged, leaving tbe buyer to pay
only 2 percent. Peterson said.
. Oin1on also !lopes to irrprove community
policing by haYing 2.000 poliCe ollicers nationwide or abo~ 40 oHice•s per stale buy HUO
homes at ha 11 price. ·
Wendelt West real estate ager~t lor Amert·
cana Homes on North Railbow Boulevard,
said lhe plan coold pose problems if there are
restrictloc\s invofved &ueh as not being able to
resale the house for a rumer ol years.
al trend
Howevt'f'. HnuR}ng and tJrbnn Dt·n•lopmrnt Sccl't'tary Andrrw Cuumn ~'lid pmlt·
lema continue. ll ~aid middle·clal!s migration
to the suburb~ i.!l continuing. dty pO\"f>rty
rates arc ri!'ling and large citicslot~Ljobs.
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routed initiatives to encourage inner· -~b
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city bome ownership as a way to halt ll 10 so.<m uni&w-cd childrC:A$!1~:~:
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50 percent discounts on purchasing tiveiJ in the 1998 f?udget ~r
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2.000 such anortpges.
For first-time home buy~ the
added $200 in dosing oosts savings
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to mortgages insur_ed by
the federal Housing AdminislQ.tion.
r«XJucing by a quartcr~t the current
1.75 ~nt roort~gc m.surance pre-
would apply
mium. This comes on top of $l.200.in
. such savings already approved by Clinton.
The one-year pilot "''fftcer NextDoor" prograw.would"offer up to"2;000
police officers in low-income ~
hoods lhe chance to buy HUD.Owned
The City of Omaha would sup.;
port a federal p~ that eoc:ouc- ages police offiCer$ to move _into in~
n~-aty neighborboods. but Mayor
Daub would DOt force orracers tD
live in a~ area. a mayor's
assistant wd Monday.
•we can't infringe upon a police
officer's right to housmg wherever
they want to li~" said Joe Mangia.
meUi. the mayor's liaison to the Police De~L ..This might .encourage a police offil:et to relocate~
to a wgeted 8IU in the city where
crime "WOuld be potentially be reduced bJ ~~g a police. otlk:er.
Obviously. that's a good deal."
homes at balf price with a. down pay·
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Five citieS aliudy have agreed .~ • of oW- asSets. all of our peOple... HUD
participate: Clev~Iand. Miami-Dade. Secretary Andrew Cuomo. said Mon-
. County. Fta: ·Kansas Ci'l'~_Mo_; Los '. daJ in releasin; a'report that srowed
Angeles arid Springfield. .MaSs. In aD, middk<lass wgr_ation ·to tbe subwbs
24 cities are e~aed to participate, continuing and cir:y ·poverty. rates ruaccording to HUD·.
.ing.
The goal of the Urban Homestead
initiativl! is to ~w the city-suburban home o~p gap. NoW. 72.1
percent of suburban fainilies own their
homes. but o~ 49.8 percent of city
families do, HtJ_D says.
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• Large U.S. cities lost jobs during
tbe past few yean, although 12 million
jobs were c::reate.d nationwide dupng
Clinton's fll'st foor years in office. .
·• The _poverty rate in cities. rose
_ Mangiamelli said the Ma)W's Of· .
fJCC would study the possible bene- .
fics of tbt federal program in the
coming weeks.
Joanne Robinson. the ma.Yor's ·-
communications coordinator. as at·
tending che u.s. Coorereoge or
Mayoll' annual amvention in san
Francisco, where President Clinton ·
was expected to announce tbe pri> ·
posal. Daub did not attend because
he is on his~ He will re.
tum to wodt 'Ibuisday. · .
The city $beM:d a plan iD 1~.
that .v.OOld have ..helPed 'PlY<~:·
housmg costs of police offiCers:~;
moved into iDner-dty ~- ·
hoods. In the fl..-. monthS tbat thl!nMayor PJ. Morgm ofTtted tbt ~
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busillesse$ tax in(;Cilti\'C$ in ~ .
for locating in inner-dty areas. It alSo
wants $2.6 billion to clean up "brownftelds,.._~ormerty industrialized areai o1 -.
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dent Clinton cheered the nation's
mayors Monday by declaring "our
'cities are back" and announcing
modest Initiatives to make Ameri.eans feel safer in low· and
moderate-income urban neighborhoods.
The centerpiece was the "officer next door" program, offering
police 50 percent discounts on
2,000 government-owned homes,
particularly in large cities with
high crime rates. The aim is to
Increase the visibility of police in
troubled areas. by moving them
into long-vacant homes.
·u will be some of the beat
money the federal government
ever spent,w Clinton said in n
speech to the U.S. Conference of
Mayors.
The president also promised to
give first-time home-buyers a
$200 break on cloaing costs for
living in the most.-populous cities
and to provide working familie~
the chance to move from rcnter11
to owners with the help of federal
. vouchers.
. · Clinton focused on good news:
:falling crime rates and unemployment down by a third in the 50
"largest cities. "What a long way
·we have come," Clinton said. Mit
:wasn't .so .VIKY long ago that huge
. numbers of Americans had just
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PJan: Presidel"lt Clinton 1ells U.S. Conference of Mayors in San
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g~vernment-owned homes in large cities with high crime rates.
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migration to the suburb!! is
continuing, city poverty rates are
ri$ing, and large cities lost jobs
even as 12 million job~: were
crt:ated nationwide.
. Democratli and some Republican!; welcomed Clinton's announctment with enthusiasm.
"Hi !I plan i!! fahulou~." ~nid
Republican .Mayor Jt~meJ.< A. Gorner of HernpsLead, N.Y. ult is
sensitive to the needs of our
! However, Andrew Cuomo of citic,;."
;the Department of Housing and
. Chicago Mayor Richanl Daley,
:Urban Development released a
president of the mayor's confer1report showing that problems ence, 11nirl, "The president's ini·
tiatives show that he is with us.
The federal ~ovemment i11 a big
bureaucrocy but the pre;ident has
always been wlt.h Ull."
However. Rep Rick Lazio,
chairman of the House subcom·
mittee on housing and community opportunity, and Rep. Jim
Talent, chairman of the Committee on Small Business, said many
of Clinton ·s proposals already
were under conr;ideration by Republican.!! in Congress.
"While I am pleased that after
five years lhis adminilitration is
finally focu:;ing on the opportuni·
ties in many of our cities, I am
concerned thllt tbiE: propo~~al is
little more than rhetorical grandstanding, • Lazio said in a stale·
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President Clinton's quick trip to San Francisco provided the nation's mayors with a
blueprint to reinvigorate their cities and California's junior senator with more
campaign cash.
Clinton, addressing the U.S. Conference ofMayora Monday. promised a sttonger
partnership with the country's wban centers, saying, •America can never complete
its fWl promise until all our cities tWii1l theirs. •
Just for you, a special page on the Conference of Mayors. ·
Later. at a fund-raiser f'or Sen. Barbara Boxer,. the president urged her re-election
and indicated he needed as much support as he could get in Congress if his agenda
for the cities was to succeed.
Clinton told the mayors at the Fairmont Hotel that "our cities are back," but he
outlined a number of problems keeping urban America from reaching its full
potential.
"We must deal with the continued flight of the middle class to the suburbs, u Clinton
said. 11 We must deal with the poor perfonnance of too many of our schools, with the
cont~uing health problems of too many people who live in the cities and, perhaps
most important of all, with the continuing, almost physical isola.tion of the poor in
our cities. a
However, he added. there is good news. The booming economy with its low
unemployment and inflation rates~ added to a drop in crime, has revitalized cities.
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· To meet ·hl.· goai, Cllnton mapped out a strategy that would increase the chances of
home ownership in the inner cities for low- and middl&-income people, redevelop
urban wastelands and create jobs for those on welfare through economic incentives
. for employers.
He estimated that "1 million people would need to join the work force under the
federal welfare overhaul.
He also gave a pep talk for plans to give cops financial breaks to live in central city
neighborhoods by alloWing officers to make small down payments on BUD-owned
homes and carvin~ out room for them in public housing projects.
While the mayors applauded the pollee initiative, cops on the· streets of San
Francisco, at least, were .skeptical
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The president also repeated his vow to make the fight agaiDst AIDS a top priority,
saying, "We can't stop until we find a cure to bring a permanent end to the
· epidemic."
In llddition, Clinton pushed his c:all to improve race relations, even going so far as to
say the country bad the "chance to rewrite the rules ofhuman evOlu~ion almost by
building the world's first truly great multiracial, multiethnic democracy. •
With the greatest diversity of population in large cities, the president said mayors
must take the lead in the endeavor.
He said his plan to· spark new llf'e in urban America would not work without the
support of'the mayorr, a· group he praised as amoDB the "most aeative and effective
public officials. •
Atlanta Mayor Bill C~pbell gave kudos to Clinton, p~ting toward policies he said
had already helped tun) cities around.
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"When the president
elected, cities in this country were on life support because
of the tremendous neglect by past administrations, 11 Campbell said. "But things have
changed, and it shows in Atlanta."
Mayor Brown characterized Clinton's speech as very good, because he presented a
clear picture of what "he intends to do and how cities Will benefit when he does it"
Clinton didn't take full credit for the urban recovery, pointing to several examples of
successful local initiatives, such as Boston's 'program to stem juvenile crime and
Chicago's move to set higher standards for public schools.
"Our cities are literally bursting with new ideas for reform that are actually changing
people's lives," Clinton said.
After his speech, Clinton quickly worked the room full ofJOO Democratic and
Republican mayors, before heading to Bo1tets fund-raiser, where he switched gears
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Th~ he l.Irged the senator's sUpport~s, who paid $500 and more to attend the
event, to push hard for:the re-election of the Democratic senator from Marin
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He called Boxer the spirit and heart otthe U.S. Senate. •we must not let this
woman be defeated by all the people who_will say, "Well, she's too liberal on this,
that or the other thing.' If she ever made a mistake in her life, it was a mistake of the
head, not the heart, and don't you ever forget it, • Clinton said. •we all make
mistakes.•
Monday's fund-raiser in San Francisco was expected to bring $500,000 to her
campaign cofFers. A second event in Los Angeles later in the day, also attended by
Clinton, was expected to generate another SI millie~
In San Francisco, event-goers were met by protesters angered that only those with
big bucks could attend.
Boxer, who has strussied in the polls, is considered vulnerable in her 1998
re-election contest. PosSible Republican challengers include state Treasurer Matt
Fens, San Diego businessman DUTell Issa, San Diego Mayor Susan Golding and
Rep. Sormy Bono, among others.
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Boxer- embracing the'tberal cloak ofher.positions on abortion rights, tougher
envirorunental regulations and gun control- said she was "a national target for
defeat ... by the right Wing,. . .
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Sounding rather proud, she rattled off a list of those who had blasted her, including
Gov. W'dson; former senator and Republican preSidential candidate Bob Dole;
Randall Terry, founder of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue; and
conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh. She even threw in the National Rifle
Association for good measure.
•1 know why they want me gone, • she said. "It's because I am not afraid of them,
and ther will not intimi.date me."
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Clinton, who missed a fund-raiser for Boxer earlier this year right after he injured his
knee, told supporters ~t keeping her in the Senate was a high priority.
''And through the ups m,u1 the downs, you stay with her, and you make up your mind
that you~will not let the people of California be taken in by an attack on her because
she is the great spirit o.fthe Senate, u he said.
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HEADLINE: Clinton asks mayors to help revive cities
BYLINE: DAN SMITII, SCRIPPS-MCCLATCHY WESTERN SERVICE
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SAN FRANCISCO - Claiming that America's cities are rebounding from their crime-ridden, bankrupt
past, President Clinton on Monday outlined a plan for continued renewal and asked the nation's mayors to
help him finish the job. .
·"America can never fulfill its complete promise until all our cities fulfill theirs," Clinton said at the
annual U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting. "We've got to keep working until we extend the prosperity of
this recovery to every neighborhood in America."
Clinton also warned congressional Republicans that he would veto any balanced-budget bill that
violated a agreement to restore some benefits to legal immigrants.
Fresh from an eight-nation summit in Denver, the president spent Monday in California, speaking to
mayors and helping Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer raise $ 1.5 million for what is expected to be a
tough re-election battle next year.
Contained in a report released by his Department ofHou5ing and Urban Development, Clinton's plan
for cities noted that unemployment and crime are down in the nation's urban areas, but warned of
continuing flight to the suburbs by the middle class.
The plan Clinton pushed to the mayors is an accumulation of several administration initiatives on ·
housing, education, crime fighting and environmental clem,up in urban areas. But a new proposal, the
"officer next door" initiative, would give up to 2,000 police officers half off on the purchase offederally
·owned, foreclosed homes within the cities they serve- "It will be some of the best money the federal
government ever spent," Clinton said - and would allow poor families to use rent-subsidy vouchers to buy
ahome.
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Clinton also attempted to answer critics who say the welfare law he signed in August does not provide
local governments enough money to put welfare recipients to work, particularly if the economy sours. "I
know a lot of you thought I made a mistake by signing the welfare reform bill, but I thought it was worth
the chance to change the culture of dependency."
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He reminded them that his budget includes $ 3 billion to help transport welfare recipients to jobs. And
he urged the mayors to lobby their state legislatures for their fair share of federal welfare bloc grant funds.
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Clipton complained that some Republican-written budget provisionS moving through Congress "simply
do not live up to the explicit commitment of the budget agreement" he reached with GOP leaders in May.
In particular, a proposal barring certain welfare benefits for legal immigrants with medium-income
sponsors strays from the budget agreement, which sought to restore Medicaid coverage for poor legal-
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"I will not sign the bill unless Congress keeps its commitment," Clinton said
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HEADLINE: URBAN, HO! U.S. AIMS TO WOO MIDDLE CLASS BACK TO ITS. CITIES
BYLINE: Hearst Newspapers
DA1ELINE: SAN FRANCISCO
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President Clinton, drawing on a land-giveaway scheme that lured pioneers to the West, launched an
"urban homestead" initiative Monday to draw iniddle-class Americans bacJc to cities with new financial
breaks and the prospect of a law officer living next door.
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The president told more than 300 mayors at an annual meeting of the U:S. Conference of Mayors that
boosting homeownership is the key to reviving blighted cities that have lost millions of middle-class
residents to the suburbs during the past ·generation.
During the past quarter-centwy the suburban population has grown 10 times faster than that of the
cities. Nineteen of the 30 I<irgest cities in 1970 have lost residents since then.
Clinton's three-part "urban homestead initiative" offers $700 million in new incentives for Americans to
buy homes in inner city neighborhoods. Clinton said 49.8 percent of city families own their own homes
. compared with 72.1 percent of suburban families. He said his goal is to boost homeownership so that the
city figure is closer to the suburban number.
Clinton ordered the Department of Housing and Urban Development to juggle money from Congress to
underwrite an "officer-next-door" program to sell single-fa.rpily housing owned by the federal government
to about 2,000 police officers at half the appraised value. '
"You have shown me how more police officers on our streets have made so many of our neighborhoods .
feel like home ~gain," Clinton told the mayors. "Just imagine what it will be like when more police make
those neighborhoods their homes again."
Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo said the govefilillent's sale of foreclosed properties could provide
police an incentive worth as much as one year's salary.
Administration officials said 24 jurisdictions are expected to take part in the yearlong pilot program.
Five localities have agreed to sign on -Miami-Dade County, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Mo.,
and Springfield, .Mass.
GRAPHIC: PHOTO: Homestead offer. Boosting homeownership is the key to reviving blighted cities,
Presi~ent Clinton tells mayors Monday in San Francisco.
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San Francisco, Calir. - President Clint.:>n, draWing on a land-giveaway scheme that lured pioneers to
the West, launched an ''urban homestead" init.ia.tive Monday to draw
middle-class Americans back to cities with new :rmandal breaks and
the prospect of a lawman living next
door,
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'He ordered the Depamnent of
Housing and Orban Development to
juggle existing rund.ing from Congress to underwrite an "officer-nextdoor" program to :5ell single-fanilly
housing owned by the federal govermnent to about 2,000 police off'r
cers at half the appraised value.
·;Officers could buy HOD-owned
homes with a down payment of as
little as $1 00.
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'"'You have shown me how more
pOlice officers on our streets have·
made so many of our neighborhoods
f~J like h9me again, •• Clinton told
mo~ than 300 mayors. "Just imagme what it will be like when more
police make those neighborhoods
theirhomesagain."
Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo
said the government's sale of forecl6sed properties could provide
pOiice an incentive worth as rnuch as
one· year's salary.
·Administration officials said 24
jurisdictions are expected to take
part in the yearlong pUot program.
F~e localities have already agreed
~i'lthed on -Cleveland; Los Angeles;
Ml!uni-Dade County, Fla.; Kansas
City, Mo., and Springfield, Mass.
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President Clinton attended a fund-raiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer in
San Francisco after speaking at the annual U.S. Conference of
Mayors earlier MQnday. At the conference, he proposed incentives
for boosting homeownership in the inner cities.
meeting of the U.S. Conference of
Mayors that boosting horneownership is the key to reviving bLighted
cities that have lost millions of middie-class -reSidents to the $uburbs
over the last generation.
"We have to recogniu that it
doesn •t matter how rich we are, it
doesn't matter how successful we
are if we keep raising ge11eration
after generation of poor children
that are literally physically isolated
from the rest of us,~ Clinton warned.
adding, "America can never fulfill
1ts complete promise until all our
cities fulf'ill theirs.··
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Over the last Quarter century the
nation'5 $uburb&:~ population ha.:s
grown 10 times faster than that of
the cities. Ninetef'..n of. the 30 largest
cities in 1970 have recorded a net
loss. of residents since then.
.Clinton's three-part "urban homestead initiative ·• offers $700 million
in new incentives ror Americans to
buy homes in inn·er-city neighbor-
hoods.
Clinton also ordem:l the Depart..
ment of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to cut mortgage insul'ance premiums, now 1.75 percent,
by a quarter J)Oint for first-time
homebuyers in inner-city neighborhoods. The cut would save them
S200. bringing to $1,400 the total reduction in closing costs that Clinton
has approved for such hornebuyers
who obtain an average Federal
Housing AdminiStration mortgage of
S85,000, officials said.
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wasn't so very long ago that huge
numbers of Americans had just
simply given up on the prospect of
our cities."
However, Housing Secretary
Andrew Cuomo released a report
showing that problems continue. ·tt
r.aid middle·class migration to the
suburbs is oontinuing, city poverty
. rates are rising, 'and large cities
lost jobs even as 12 million jobs
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. ~cnt Clinton cheered the nation's
1nayors Monday by declaring "our
·cilies are back" and announcing
·lf\odcst Initiatives to make Ameri·
.. tans feel safer in low· and moder:tlt~inoome urban neighborhoods.
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next door" program, offering·
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r,t2,000 govemment·Qwned homes,
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high crime rates. The aim is to In· , "His plan is fabulous," said Re·
crease the Visibility of police ·tn· publican Mayor James A Gamer
;trOubled areas by moving them in· of Hempstead, N.Y. "It is sensitive
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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley,
money the federal government ev- presi(jent of the mayor's confer·
er spent," Clinton said in a speech ence, said, "The president's initia·
.lo the U.S. Confcrenoe of Mayors. ·rives show that he is with us. The
•:" Tbe president also promised to · federal government is a big bu·
flrst·time home-buyers a $200 reaucracy but the president has al·
!,tJrcak on closing costs for living in · ·ways been with us."
'.-the most·populous cities and to
Clinton cautioned that Congress
:ptovide working families Ute is backing ·away from promised tax
!fhanre to move from renters to incentives fur cities to clean up
·~owners with .the help of· federal "brown fields" __,. formerly· induli·
;-youchcrs.
·
trialized ·areas of inner citiC3 ~. Ointon focused on good news: and to expand "empowerment
.falling crime rates and unemploy· ZQnes" thar provide business($ tax
imenr down by a third ip the 50 break& in exchange Cor locating in
·Jargt:st cities. "What a long way we inner-city llrt:as.
.,.have come," .Clintol'\
"The plan~ put'· together by the
. said. "Jt
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President Clinton attended a fund-raiser for Sen. Barbara eoxer,
D-Calif., Monday'after speaking to the nation's .mayors.
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House and Senate C(lmmitrees sim- Jioe (»ffioers·on city streets.
ply do not live up to .lite ~plicit
Initially, the program will be
commitment of the bud~et agree. available in Cleveland; Miami·
ment, and that Is wrong,' he said.· Dade County; Kansas City, Mo.;
. Clinton noted that many mayors . Los.: ~ngeles; and Springfield,
have disagreed with him, most no- . ~ass. ·
.
.
tably when he signed a tough wei·
Ointon new to California from
fare overhaul that city officials . the eight~oation summit in Denver
fear will stick them with the prob- . to help· raise $1.5 million for Sen.
lems of the poor. "We can m~e Barbara Boxer, 0-Calif., in San
this work," h~ promised.
· . F,rancisoo and ~s Angeles.
Clinton S&~id the plan builds on
Boxer faces ac;Jious Rt:publican
hjs efforts to put IOO,opo new PQ- . challengers in her re·election bid.
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Newspapers and Wires.
The AP (6/23, Hunt) reported President Clinton yesterday "cheered the nation's mayors" at their
national conference, saying that "our cities are back" and "announcing modest initiatives to make
Americans feel safer in low- and moderate-income urban neighborhoods." The centerpiece of the
President's remarks was the "Officer Next Door" program, which would offer "police 50% discounts on
2, 000 government-owned homes, particularly in large cities with high crime rates." The goal of the
program is to "increase the visibility of police in troubled areas by moving them into long-vacant homes."
Said Clinton, "It will be some of the best money the Federal Government ever spent." Clinton also
"promised to give first- time home-buyers a $200 break on closing costs for living in the most- populous
cities, and to provide working families the chance to move from renters to owners with the help of Federal
vouchers."
The Philadelphia Inquirer (6/24, AI, Rankin) reported on the horne plan for cops, saying that HUD
"hopes to place 1,000 police officers in houses" during the next year. The Inquirer said Clinton's "three
modest" proposals "do not need separate approval from Congress" and would "cost the government a total
of $700 million."
USA (6/24, A6, Leavitt) reported Clinton is "linking" his plans for "horneownership in inner cities" to
"his recent initiative on race." Clinton was yesterday "armed with a new HUD report showing that
minorities and the poor are increasingly concentrated in iiU,ler-city neighborhoods while more jobs are
migrating to the suburbs." Said Clinton: "We have to create in our cities our national idea of one America
that crosses all racial, ethnic and other lines, that gives every child a chance to flourish and every citizen a
chance to serve."
The NYT (6/24, Al3, Bennet) reported Clinton. yesterday unveiled "some modest initiatives --and
some grand dreams - -for cities." In his 45-minute speech, Clinton "corralled topics as diverse as his
dreams for horne ownership, his plans for the Federal budget, his desire for an AIDS cure and his hope to
'rewrite the rules of human evolution, almost,' by teaching people of different races to get along." Clinton
"told the mayors that he among American presidents was exceptionally equipped to address the needs of
the cities," saying: "I imagine I have been in more urban neighborhoods, meeting with more different
kinds of people about more different kinds of issues, than any of my predecessors."
Everitng Television.
'CBS (6/23, Schieffer) reported last night that Clinton " unveiled a plan to encourage people to move
back to America's cities. Speaking to the US Conference of Mayors in San Francisco, the President
�announced his 'Officer Next Door' program, which would ~ve police officers discounts on governmentowned homes in urban areas. Help would also be offered to first-time home buyers in the inner city."
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BYLINE: By Amy B. Resnick
BODY:
President Clinton unveiled a seven-point urban agenda to help close the gap between cities and suburbs,
but state and local government officials said it does not go nearly far enough.
Clinton, speaking yesterday to the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting in San Francisco,
announced plans to aid cities by trying to spur job creation, stem middle-class flight, increase
homeownership, and reduce the social and economic isolation of the poor in cities.
But he also accused states of keeping some of the windfall they are getting as a result of dropping
welfare caseloads while federal welfare grants remain steady.
"The states of this country are getting over 20% more money today for welfare then they would have
gotten under the old welfare law," Clinton said. "They are still getting the same amount of money they got
when welfare rolls were at an all-time high. We have had the largest reduction in welfare rolls in the
history of the United States by far. They still have that money. What are they doing with it?"
Clinton chastised members of the congressional tax writing committees for not living up to the
bipartisan budget agreement's plans for increasing investments in environmentally contaminated
"brownfield" sites and increasing the number of empowerment zones.
"On the tax side - that is dealing with the brownfields and the empowerment zones and the other tax
incentives for cities - the plans put together by the House and Senate committees simply do not live up to
the explicit commitment of the budget agreement - and that is wrong," the president said. "That budget
agreement passed by overwhelming margins of both parties in both houses .... Do not let Congress get out
of the commitment they made on this issue."
Frank Shafroth, director of policy and federal relations for the National League of Cities, said Clinton's
proposed programs amount to a repackaging of items already in his budget and that the lack of support in
Congress means expanded programs are unlikely.
In addition, Shafroth said Clinton's proposed programs do not match the size of problems the
administration has identified.
"When you look at the scope of the problems they admit ... the solutions are barely going to touch the
surface," Shafroth said. "Look at this budget deal and where the cuts come and the benefits go. It all
furthers the trend of bad news for cities."
�The plan does not seek to expand the use of tax-exempt bonds by cities.
Shafroth also noted that the proposal to ex-pand the Empowerment Zone- Enterprise Community
programs With 40 new zones and 80 new communities was not included in the tax bill passed by House
and Senate committees in the last two weeks, reducing the likelihood that it will materialize this year.
Both Shafroth and Catherine L. Spain, director of the Government Finance Officers Association's
federal liaison center, said the EZ-EC program, begun in 1994, has produced few results in their member
communities.
The state of the cities report, prepared by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, found
that the country's largest cities lag suburbs in job creation; that urban poor populations are more socially,
economically and physically isolated; and that middle-class residents continue to leave cities.
"Cities, which often have disproportionately large pools oflower skilled workers, typically ex-perience
unemployment rates one-third to one- half higher than nearby suburbs," the HUD report said.
Of the 19 cities cited in the report, nine cities lost jobs between 1990 and 1995. This decline- and the
increased need for jobs for about one million people coming off welfare by the year 2000 - prompted
Clinton to set up a $3 billion program of welfare-to-work funds that gives cities resources to spur job
creation.
The administration proposed efforts to increase urban homeownership by the year 2000, creating a new
welfare-to-work tax credit to permit employers to claim a 50% credit for up to two years on the first
$10,000 in wages paid to a long-term welfare recipient. The plan-also includes $100 million per year for
· six years for the Department of Transportation to fund transportation programs that help move welfare
recipients to where jobs are.
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President Clinton will today address a gathering of the US Conference of Mayors in San Francisco,
announcing a program called "Urban Homestead," aimed at increasing the number of home purchases in
American cities. The plan is an extension of other Clinton-backed programs announced since 1995 to
encourage urban homeo\\'Ilership. According to HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo: "The American dream
of homeownership doesn't stop at the city line. President Clinton knows that families in cities as well as
suburbs, want to become homeo\\'Ilers. And he wants to give them the opportunity." Cuomo has called for
making 2 million new homeo\\'Ilers in US cities by 2000, which would raise urban homeownership rate by
more than 50 percent.
Clinton's proposal would reportedly cost $675 million over five years, which would go toward lowering
mortgage closing costs, aiding police officers in buying city homes, and subsidizing purchases of rental
properties. For first-time homebuyers with mortgages insured by-!he Federal Housing Administration,
Clinton proposes a $200 cut in closing costs, in addition to other first- time buyer incentives already
instituted under Clinton. The "Urban Homestead" plan would also allow up to 2,000 police officers to buy
urban homes O\\'Iled by HUD at half- price, as part of a plan to make neighborhoods safer by having more
officer residents. The plan would also provide vouchers for renters of Section 8 housing to pay toward
homeownership. In addition, HUD plans to crack do\\'11 on housing discrimination by doubling the
approximately 14,000 cases currently referred to the Justice Department for investigation. According to
an Administration statement, this crackdo\\'11 will also "further the President's initiative on race."
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Hoping to encourage stability in America's central cities,
President Clinton on Monday offered a bonus of about $200 to
first-time purchasers of homes there.
That was the widest-reaching of three modest initiatives Clinton
unveiled in a speech to the U.S. Conference ofMayors.
The bonus would come from reduced closing costs for home
purchases financed by the Federal Housing Administration. Clinton
ordered the FHA to shave its mortgage premiums by one-quarter
of 1 percent for purchases in designated areas of 524 U.S. cities.
The administration estimates this will save the average homebuyer
there $200.
A second initiative, dubbed the "Officer Next Door" program,
would give local police who buy homes in such areas from the
Housing and Urban Development Department a 50 percent
discount on the house's list price. Over the next year, HUD hopes
to place 1, 000 police officers in houses it owns.
Under a third pilot program, Clinton announced that the
quasi-federal financial agency Freddie Mac will finance inner-city
home purchases for up to 2,000 low-income families across the
country.
The three new programs, which do not need separate approval
from Congress, will cost the government $700 million. Clinton
termed it a ''down payment toward our priority of strengthening
our cities family by family."
Mayor James Sills ofWilmington, Del., seemed to reflect the
prevailing sentiment of his peers in welcoming Clinton's programs,
·
despite their modest reach.
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''Overall, I was impressed," Sills said of Clinton's message.
Defending the "Officer Next Door" initiative, Sills said, "It's
limited in scope, but if it works, state and local governments will
push it forward."
HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, traveling with the president, said
the program will expand iflocal police take advantage ofthe pilot
.
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proJect.
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"I think it's going to have a real impact. People want to live next
to a police officer," he said, adding that their presence would
enhance the security and stability of inner-city neighborhoods.
For the police, ''50 percent is a real financial incentive," Cuomo
noted. ''The discount on the house can be equal to their annual
salary."
Mayor Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City, Mo., said his city offers
police a 25 percent subsidy for home purchases in inner-city
neighborhoods, and 18 officers have taken advantage of it so far.
He, too, defended Clinton's proposal.
"You've got to be willing to move slQ.wly lest you stumble and
Congress then kills the program," Cleaver said.
Clinton devoted most of his 45-minute speech to reviewing his
administration's overall urban policy rather than breaking new
ground.
"Our cities are back," he proclaimed, citing a new HUD study
titled the State of the Cities. "We've got the biggest economic
resurgence in cities since World War II; the unemployment rate
down by a third in our 50 largest cities; more downtowns coming
back to life with sports and tourism and local business booming...
. But I also know, and you know, that we have much more to do."
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�POLICE
.... COfiiTINVEO FllOM IB
count programs, where police offi:
cers' presence would be desirable ·
... areas that are in need of revi·
talization.
"The potential is there. Parts of
the cities could be eligible. We
:stand ready to work with (St. ·
Paul) Mayor Norm Coleman and
(Minneapolis) Mayor Sharon
Sayles Belton."
.
He said Twln Cities police already are eligible for a 10 percent
discount on a HUD home's pur·
chase price, but the home would
first have to be purchased by the •
city or a· nonprofit agency, then J
sold to the officer. ·
.
The program Clinton announced !
Monday is for direct sale to the
1.
officer.
St. Paul and Minneapolis. have !
&tronger economies and healthier '
hoW!iDg conditions than other cit· ·
les, meaning they don't have the •
concentration of HUD-owned vacant properties that is required for
a revitalization area designatioo.
There are about 100 HUD prop-:
erties in St. Paul and 160 in Minneapolis, but not all are currently
on the market and some are in the
process of being sold.
The first loan under St. Paul's
incentive program for police was
on June 8, 1993. Fifteen more obtained discounted loans by the
time the program concluded in
December 199,, said Paul· Adelmann; spokesman for Coleman. '
Under the program, the officer
made the down payment on a
home in a specified area of the
clty. Tbe city, if need be, helped
· with the down payment, and also .
paid closing costs and points on !
the low-interest loan. The closing
costs, down payment assistance· •
and points were forgiven if the·.
officer lived in the home for seven
. .·
years, Adelmann said. . .
Depending on the type of loan,
.Interest rates were as low as 5
percent, np to 6.9 percent. ·
·
Officers c:an still obtain mortgages under the city's middle-Income program.
. "Mayor Coleman continue1 to
look at avenues to lure more middle-income people, including po-.
lice officers, to the city," Adel-·
·mann said.
.
Pollee Chief William Finney
said 30 percent to 34 percent of
department personnel currently.'!
live in the city, compared with 28 ,
.·:;:,.
percent in the pas~..
co. He said that even though crime
rates have dropped considerably
in cities, the fear of criine is still
high.
HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo,
traveling with the president, said
the program will e:rpand lf local
police take advantage of the pilot
project.
"I think it's going to have a. real
·impact. People want to live next
to a police officer," he said.
Clinton also announced ·a bonus
of about $200 for first~time home
. buyers in qualifying urban areas.'
i The bonus would come from reI duced closing costs for home pur·
chases financed by the Federal
Housing Administration. Clinton
ordered the FHA to 6ha'/e its
mortgage premiums by one·
quarter of l percent for purchases
in designated areas of 524 U.S.
cities.
Under a third pilot program,
Clinton announced that the quasi~
federal financial agency Freddi£~
Mac will finance inner~ty home
purchases for up to 2,000 low~in·
come families across the country.
The Officer Next Door plan is'
parallel to, but less generous than,
a holne~wnership program sponsored by fonner St. Paul City
Council Member Dino Guerin in
1992.
That program, which cost St.
Paul about $95,000 and lapsed at
the end of 1994, functioned under
the city's middle-income home
loan program. lt offered police below-market loan:s to purchase, refinance or rehabilitate homes in
certain areas of the city.
Homes sold .to police under· the
Officer Next Door program must
be loc:ated within designated revitalization areas, according to Shir·
ley Sailors, who beach the Department ·of Housing and Urban
Development's Minnesota real es·
tate branch.
.
The Twin Cities do not have any
neighborhoods with that designation, which ostemibly would eliminate local pollee from buying au
inner-city home at a ·50 percent
discount.
.
But Alex Sachs, HUD. spokes·
man in Washington, said the agency "is committed to working with
mayors to identify communities in Thi6 report ll'lelude5 Information frl?rn .Y!e~
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Cliriton outlines agenda for cities
Milwaukee official
skeptical of president's
fOOJS ~new .~ns
Boston Globe,
As~ted Press
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Fran~o
- President
called on the nation's
l,na\ton Monday to refocus on
pu61ic sdtools and to help find
. 1obs fo.r the poor. and in return
offered ·a modest piogra:m designed to sr.ur police officen to
live in the aties they patroL
Clinton's urban agenda. perhaps his most comprehensive
Since he ·arrived .in the White
flouse, covered the gambit from
reductions in crime tO increased
ownership
a plea to eradicate
; uom inner cities.
· .
received a
.
:ovation at the annual gathmng
of the U.S. Conference of
;
despite past
of the
· president fiom many blg-dty
mayors for his support of' wefi fare reform. Aftenr.ud, many
~ton
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~rs,
those ln the i'Oom.. including Re- in the cities," Morgan said Monpublic:an Mayor Richard Rior- day. '"'Why continue encroachClan of Los Angeles, lauded ing on the countryside when we
Ointon, ff not for his programs, aJ.feady have iitlrastructure in
at least for his oratory.
American cities?'"
Said Mayor Thomas Menino
Clinton spoke as the Departof Boston: "'Do we have money ment of Housing and Urban Delike we used to? No, but we velopment released a glossy rebave a president who is at least" port concluding that most major
accessi6le."
· cities continued to have an exoIn Milwaukee, however, the dus of residents and were bur·
urban proposals were ·greeted dened by .an increasing concensbpticilly by Michael Morgan. tration of poverty•
. commissioner of the DepartThe .trends noted. have. been
ment of City Developmenl
amply documented in the MilEchoing a theme favored by waukee area. In. April. for examMayor John Norquistr Morgan pte, .. the WISCOnSm Policy Resaid that rather than focus on· searclt ·Institute reported that of
programs, the federal gov- .: .66.810 new jqbs added .in metro though aime rates had dropped peded to participate. according
ernment . ~1,1(d. do better to Milwaukee during a five.:year: significantly in the nation's cit- to HUD.
eliminate .subsidies lor new sub- · period endb)g in 'March 1996, ·a11 ies, the fear of crinie was still
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urban highway and other h\fra- but 2.48.1 Were" in
high. To that end, he initiated a more pc)Uce officers on ow
structure
.. ·. '.· And .. a _1994 report .
re- one-year program where
streets have made so many of
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.and
to
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SAN FRANCISCO --. Presic.lent
Clinton outlined modest plan.'9. to
stabili7.e Ameriila's Inner clth~s
Monday, b11t Ute f!_eni.Cq,ieee p~ .
• aiOHals - d<~gn<!CI to auract polit:e officers and mlddh•:-dass
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home· dwnern t.O troubled neighhorhoods --; ~ire expt~cted .to
have little htlpad. jn prosperous.
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n.><:eptive :uulicn<~e at the U.S. Conference of
Mayors, Clinton also c-.tlled for
more innet~ity empowerment
zones, improved health care fo1·
children and· ilicreased ('(forts to
tempt to repair the· iliwon•s mo8t ·1
inlracl.ablc dome.Stic ill~.
"Tile. cities of America ·are.
burSting .wiUa :excit~mcnt and
success," ··the president -.sa~tl,
pointing to; ~ncoul"aging employ-
li•id an AIDS vaccine and rebuild
mcnt, incoiue and crime stat.islks. nu,, -he warned,
muSt
deal with the continued flight or
U.ae.. nal.lon's tichools.
"we
. Coming Just nine dnys ;J.f\.c~ his
fl(leeCh in Saii l)ir.go addressing the middle clas..CJ to Ute .subu.rbs. :·
the nation's racial clivide, ClinClinton sa1d the De~
t~·s proposal'! t.o reVitali:eA.' the ,!_!_ousing ~.cJ. U~{~~~!9..PJDf,!al .
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2,000 HUD-forcclosed home.-;.
11tc. "officer next door" pJX)gr.un
;Uiow a $1()() down pa.ytnent
. on
.will
~here
the 1,ropcrties have an
·fHA-iru!Ured mortf,age..
, · Clinlon also promised to· glve·.
:iirst-time "home buyers a $200
bl-eak 011 closing ~ts by reduc~:.
iug F11A mortgage preiniums by_
1>.~.6 perccitt for purchases in desh,~ citi~. Oflidal<J ~Uinated·
tim lnltiatlve coa,~ld h,elp an addi.·_UOnal60,000 f:irnilies buY hoines.:
:·.~.And oae:.presl~nt ·ililnoUnCed
llaat •,fbe Freddie Mac Dnancial
:a"-~ wiil .Tmance·. c:e~-dty
Jl(,me pun:h~· foi" Up to 2,000
Ji-\w-lricome familic:S nationwide.
tJilder Ut~' pilot ptc>gram, families
Jl\31 qual.liY for f~ rental assist.-ince coul~ request instead
''iiomc owneimup empowcnncnt
:vo.uchern" tQ. hclp ~ucc month·
)y mortgage payments.
·•. 'This eCfort rcve1-scs a _long:sl:m(Ung hi,storical trend_in whicb
:u,e FliA, beginning in U1e 1950s,
·contJibnt.ed to Uae mass mig-aiion out or cities by subsl.dizing
}ion-.e ownership in the si1ha~,"
~Ute White House declared
·. ·
l Tite new programs, wbic~ do
�oot otJterwise affol'd to live in lhe
ltol need the 11pproval of <.;ongres!:', l'<~presen1. what Glintou city, huL detail'>. have not. be(!U
resolved, according to Leslye
.· tailed a $700 million "down paylt\enl toward. our priori~y of COrsiglia, San Jost>'s ;lSsist.ant
Rtretq,YI.hening our clUes farnUy by
hou.c;ing din!dot·.
·family."
. · But. even as they applau"ed · · U)(~al authorities also wet·e
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June 24, 1997
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·. Dade }'1]11 ~part C>h ·put>~~~om.
cet.. ·' Ne.xt ·. ·ooot... initiative ..
· arin'olrriccd Monday·· by:the~ Clin- :
·ton·: 'adliiinistiitio:Uhat·. will: let '
police· officers: w,ho:Jiv~ . io :the.:
. sub1;1it~ inove. b!l.~ t()Jh~ c;ty· by:
.b.uy_l.ng_.. .H.~~o~.ed:·~.C)~e.~: ·a~ ·~
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�The San Juan Star
June 24, 1997
Clinton proposing njleasures
to draw people bac" to cities
By LAURA MYERS
Tne Associa!sa PreS&
• SAN FRANCISCO - Looking to breathe new liie into
big U.S. cities, President Clinton pledged Monday to
fuUill the promise of America's vibrant economy by.
rebuilcfuig the nation's decaying urban centers.
"We bave to create in our cities our national ideal of
one America that crosses all racial. ethnic and other
lines, that gives every child a chance to flourish and
every citizen a chance to serve," Clinton tol<t the U.S.
Conference of Mayors. "America can never fulfill its
complete promise until all our c:itie.! fulfill tbei.n.'~
He proposed initiatives to encourage J.Jmer-c!ty home
ownership to halt urban flight, create new doWlltown jobs
and reinvigorate an urban landscape plagued by decay
and crime.
The Urban Homestead initiatives would give up to
2,000 police officers 50 percent discounts on purchasing
government-owned homes, provide first-time buyers a
$200 break on closing costs and give workiDg families the
chance to move from renters to owners with the help of
federal vouchers.
.
Clinton said the pollee plan would build on the
administration's efforts to put 100,000 new cops on city
streets to make communities safer.
While in California, Clinton also pla.nDett to attend
fund-raisers for Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in San
Francisco ancl Los Angeles. Boxer is facing sertons
Republican ehallengers iD her 1998 re-election bid.
Before heading back to Washington, Clinton also was
visitiDg a Los Angeles elementary school to announce
that Kai:ser ~ermanente has agreed to provide $100
million in free he<~.lth care over the next five years for up
to 50,000 uninsured children annually from low income
families.
·
Ali but one of the president's housing lnitiatives can be
done administratively ln the 1998 budget request for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, a 30
percent m·crease to $6 billion.
Congress would have to approve legislation to let
families convert HUD Section 8 rental vouchers into
"empowerment vouchers" tO pay home mortgages Instead. Tbe Federal Home Loau Mortgage Corp., better ·
as
known
Freddie:Mac, would commit to purcbase 1,000
to 2,000 such mo~tgages.
For first-time ~orne buyers, the added $200 in closing
costs savings would apply to mortgages insured by the
Federal Housing Administration, reducing by a quarter
point the current li.<75 percent mortgage insurance premium. This comes oil top of $1,200 in such savings already
appro~ed by Clinton.
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The one-year pilot "Officer Next Door" program would
offer 11p to 2,000 palice officers in low-income neighborhoods the chance ~o buy HUIHlwned homes at haU price
with a down pa~nt of only $100. The idea is to enlarge
the community p~licing concept credited with helping
reduce crime:- i
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Five cities alre.dy have agreed to participate: Cleveland, Mlami-Dadel County, Fla; Kansas City, Mo.; Los
Angeles and Spr~eld, Mass. In all, 24 cities are
expected to parti~pate, according to HUD.
The· goal of tile Urban Homestead initiative is to
narrow the city·s\lburban home ownership gap; Now, 7.2.1
percent of suburban families own their homes, but only
49.8 percent of ci~y families do, HUD says.
''We can do mOre with cities In terms of generating
jobs. We need to W;e all of our assets, all of our people,"
HUO Secretary ~drew Cuomo sald today In releasing a
report· that show middle class migration to the suburbs
contin¢ng and ci y poverty rates rising.
Accordin11; to t~ report:
• Large U.S. ci~es lost jobs during the past few yea.rs,
although 12 m.lllioil jobs were created nationwide during
Clinton~s first four y~ in office.
• The poverty ~ate in cities rose from 14.2 perce.nt in
1970 tO 20.6 ~t In 1995. after a sli~tht decline from
21.3 percent in 1993.
·
• Only 11 of ~e 30 largest American cities in 1970
have mor-e people jin them today than two d~ades ago,
· while even in growp.g cities the middle class and wealthy
are leaving for tlie
Sllburbs, leaving the poor beJlio<l.
I
The adminJstrati()n bas asked Congress to approve $2
billion to e%paDd ~powennent zones" that provide businesses tax breaks p.n ac:hange for locating in inner-city
areas. It ~ ~ ~6 billion to clean .up "brownfields,"
forrnecly ~ areas of inner cities.
�Vocero de Puerto Rico
June 24, 1997
Protagoliista$ :::
Renovaril ciudades
El presidente Clinton .levanta el brazo
Barbara Boxer durante una actividad
vantar fondos para su Campana en San Franc
nes y en Ia que prometi6 revitalizar las grandes
de Estados Unidos. Ointon propuso iniciativas
timular Ia propiedad de viviendas en los n~r·r•n.c:J
rados, a fin de evitar lil fuga de las ciudades, c
vos empleos urbanos y vigorizar un na1:toram31
abrumado por el deterioro y el delito. (Foto AP
fredo Lee).
�.Vocero de Puerto Rico
June 24, 1997
Clinton promete revitalizar
las·grandes ciudades kie EU
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Po~ LalU'a l\fyers
The Aejociated Press
S~ FRANCISCO - Decidido a revitaliz~ las grandes
ciudades .de Estadcis Unidos, el presidente· iBill Clinton
prometi6 el lunes concretar las promesas de \1na vibra.:.O.te
econom.!a nacional reeonstruyendo los deterior~dos nucleos
urbanos.
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"T~nemos que crear en nuestras ciudades *uestro ideal
naclonal de una America que trascienda. to~s las lineas
raciales y ~tnicas, que de a cada nino una oport~dad de florecer y a cada ciudadano una opo-rtunidad de servir",. dijo
Clinton a 1a Conferencia Nacional de Alcaldes. "Es\;;dos Unidos
nunca puede concretar plenamente su promesa ha~ta que todas
· nuestras ciudades concreten ~as suyas."
· El Presidente propuso iniciativas para 'lstimular la
propi.edad de viviendas en los barrios detenorad~·a fin de evi·
tar la fuga de las ciudades, crear nuevos empl s urbanos y
revigorizar lin panorama urbana abrum.~do par e1· eterioro y el
delito. La iniciativa ·darla hasta unos 2,000 ofici s de Policfa
descuentos del 50 por ciento para comprar .'viendas de
propiedad del gobierno.
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�Des Moines Register
June 24, 1997
l,owans praise Clinton plan
,(
~ndl Sluffs has had
success with its program
AftP.r drug dealing and violence
became the nonn at an apartment
O)mplex two years ago, Pottawatta·
mie Count:,·. Sheriff's Deputy
Dwayne Richie agreed to move in.
Council Bluffs Police Chief James
troubled area.
Wilkin.~ said the Place 35 complex
has seen a significant drop irt crime
By TOM ALEX
__since Richie. moved in.
and EVElYN l.At.'fR
~'It works," he $aid. ''Qn<;!;!_,people
K£clSTI::R STATl' WRJTW
in the COrni!lwtity 5ee that the officer
person, things seem to iro·
. ~ders in. several"Iowa cities said is a real
a little bit."
tfiey like President Clinton's plan to prove
this success, crime .that
glve police offi~rs incentives to wasDespite
once way of life at Place 35 .is
move i.Ilto inMr~ty areas.
now affect:ingotherareasofthe city,
~oving an officer into a
Des Moines officials noted that Wilkinson said.
tlley have already discussed the con·
- "Some of the J'roblcm:s ~ being
Cfjpt.
"I'm glad to !iCe the president is fr mov~ to other areas," he said. . Officials in Cedar Rapids are plan~y ~up with reality," said
C)ty Councilman Tom Vlassis. "We ning a similar program. An area has
· talked about it about a year ago. We been identified and the Metro Area
kickl:d it around and couldn't figure · Housing Program Agency has pur.out where to get the funding. We chased a house, but officials are still
tl}ought it was a good idea, a fantas- looking for .an officer to Uve.there.
tic idea."
: Vlassis' main concern with ClintQn's proposal is that it might not be
ambitious enough.
:Des Moines Police Sgt. WUI!am
Jones also praised the concept. "I
think for younger officers with limited incomes and resources, it could
provide a good opportunity," he
said. ".As a fonner foot patrol officer
I .know that getting to knoW the people in the neighborhood is one or the
best things a police officer can do."
: Council Bluffs has already experimented with the idea.
..
' ' I'm glad to see the
president is finally catching
up with reality.' f
-Tom\'las6is
Des.'\.!~ city cowu:ilman
�The Akron Beacon Journal
June 24, 1997
Help for purchasfug homes
• President Clinton says
his new propoSals would
strengthen selected cities
place 1,000 police officers in hous·
es it
owns.
Under a third pilot program.
Clinton ailnounced that the quasifederal financial agency Freddie
blac will finance inner-city home
purchaseS for up to 2,000 low-inBY RoBERT A. RANKIN
come families across the counb:y.
Xni(;hl·RidderN~
The three new programs, which
SAN FRANCISCO: Hoping to encourage stability in America's cen- do not need separate approval
tral cities, President Clinton yes- from Congress, will cost the govt.erday offered a bonus or about ernment a total of $700 million.
$200 to rl.I'St-time purchasers of Clinton tenned it a "down payment
toward our ptiotity of strengthenhomes there.
That was the widest-reaching of ing our cities family by family."
Mayor James H. Sills Jr. of Wll·
three modest initiatives Clinton unveiled in a speech to tbe U.S. Con- mington, Del., seemed- to reflect
the prevailing sentlm~nt of his
ference of Mayon>.
The bonus would come from re- peers in welcoming Clinton's pro·
duced closing costs for home pur- grams, despite their modest rea~.
"Overall, I \l.'aS impressed," Sills
chases financed by the Federal
Housing Administration (FHA>. said. Defending the "Officer Next
Clinton ordered the FHA to shave Door" initiative. Sills said, "It's
its mortgage premiums by one- limited in scope, but if it works,
quarter of 1 percent for purchases state and local so\'cmmcnts will
in designated ;.reas of 524 U.S.
cities. The administration estimates this will save the average
home bu\'<'r there $200.
A second Initiative, dubbed U1c
pu:,;h it fnr\\'artl.''
Over the next year, HUD hopes to
city neighborhoods.
HUD Scct-ct.tuy Andrew Cuomo,
traveling witll the president, said
t!·.t• p;~,;;;ram \lill t•:.:pand if local
police t<1.'-e nclv;mt..1gc of the pilot
·
"Officer Next Door" program, project.
"I think it's going to have a real
would jPve local police who buy
homes 111 such areas from the De- i:npact. People wunt to live next to
partment of Housing and Urban a police officer," he said, adding
Development arum a 50 percent that their presence would enhance
discount on the house's list price. the security and sbl.bilit;y of iMer·
For the lX!lice, "50 percent is a
real fUUll\cial incentive," Cuomo
noted. "'llle cl.lscount on the house
can be equal to their annual sala"
ry."
Mayor Emanuel Cleaver II of
Kansas City, Mo., said his city offers police a 25 percent subsidy for
home purchases in inner-city
neighborhoods.
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�Los Angeles Daily News
June 24, 1997
L.Ae offering doWn payments
to keep officers living in city
By Rick Orlov
Dally N~sS&af!Wrirer
To bette.:- serve his community,
Los Angeles police Officer David
Ortiz figured he had to live in it.
The city agreed, and gave Ortiz a
$1 O,OOOloan that helped him put a
down payment on a house and ease
his return ·to the San Fernando
Valley.
Now, President Clinton- hoping other cops in Los Angeles and
four other cities will follow Ortiz's
lead - has sweetened the deal,
announcing a 50 ~rcent discount
on
some
government-owned
homes.
"I fee! lot better since we moved
back mto the city," Ortiz. a sevenyear Los Angeles Police Department veteran, said Monday.
"There's a lot more peace of mind
and there's been a really positive
response from the neighborhood
\Vho are happy a police officer bas
moved in.''
Under the president's proposal,
called the ..Officer Ne:~t Door"
progr;un, up to 2,000 homes now
owned by the Department of
Housing and Urban Development
in revitalization zones would be
sold a,t half ptice to officers with a
SlOO.down payment.
Wendy Gruel, director of special
initiativesforHUD in Los Angeles,
said ~ere are 322 homes throughout the city that would be made
available for the program.
The city developed its own loan
program last year in response to a
survey by the American Civil Lib- .
erties
Union
'that
found
81.6·percent" of LAPD officers
lived outside Los Angeles.
The program provides a $10,000 .
forgivable loan for a down payment ·
a
on a house for officers.
In the four months the loans have
bee;1 offered, ·escrow has closed on
16 houses, with eight others
e:c.pected to close this month, said
Marla Espinoza, who oversee3 the
city program.
There
are
another
45
applications pending. she said.
Local and federal officials say
having officers who live where they
work enhances their understanding of the communities they serve
and boosts community-based
policing programs.
''When you live in a n~ighborhood where you work you develop
insights that you aren't able to get
otherwise,,. said one officer.
"Sometimes, certain things happen in one neighborhood that is
common behavior and wouldn't be
understood elsewhere."
~yond fln~ial pressures that
make buying a home outside Los
Angeles more attractive, some
officers fear that living where they
work could e."<pose their fa.riuly to
retaliation and other pressures.
.. If an officer wants to do it, it's a
heck of a deal," said Cliff Ruff, a
director with the Police Protective
League. ·•ne only problem we
would have is the name of this.
'Officer Next Door' is advertising
to anyone that a police officer and
his family live there.
''That could lead tQ tetnoution qr
people imposingonru:fofficerwben
. all they want is to live in peace and
quiet, •• he said.
•
Ortiz said he harbOt.ed some of
those same worries befoie deciding
to move back to the place where he
grew up.
.
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"We talked about it a great de::U,"
qrtiz. said. "It Vfas a family decis1on. When I first became a police
officer ,seven years ago, I was asked
why I wanted to be an officer. ·I
responded I wanted .to make my
community a better place."
•·
Alan Parachini, who oversaw the
ACLU study, said. ~eJederal program ean only serVe as''a benefit to
the city.
·
..There is a lot of literature', a lot
of common sense .~d a fe-...ling fu
the community that people who
liveinthecitywh~tll.eyworkhave
a great inv~ent;" Parachio:i
said. "They become part of the
body politic. Their own lives are
invested in the community •.. a
sense that isn't there when they are
absentee cops."
�I
Reeky 1\·lountain News
,,
Tues., June 24,1997
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Mayors applaud Webb at cOHflillftCe.
Accolades come for
success of summit;
Denver honored for
after-school program
By Lynn Bartels
.Rody Moun~in N~"-s s!;J,ij Wnler
Denver l\·fa}•or Wellington
Webb basked in accolades :\ofonday
at the 65th Annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daly
publicly congratulated Webb for
ho\V Denver handled the Summit
of Eight and the Oklahoma City
bombing trial.
Then President Clinton de-
scribed how hard Webb and first
ladv Wilma Webb worked on the
summif.
And at the noon luncheon,
Webb receh•ed the conference's
prestigious City Livability Award
for Denver's after-school program.
"[ was really pleased.'' Webb
said 1'>'1onday night in a telephone
intenoiew from San Francisco. "I
had several mavors talk to me
aften~·ard about ilie Club Denver
prog'ram."
The year-old program offers six
career exploration clubs for an 18
Denver Public Schools middle
schools. The city picks up the
$300,000 tab so students can go
on field trips to the Platte River or
learn medical skills.
"Mayor Webb is making a
strong effort to partner with the
school district to impro\•e kids'
. sChool performance," the City
Livability av.rard judges noted.
"This is true leadership and deserves recognition."
Denver beat out Boston, Los
Angeles and Philadelphia, which·
also were nominated for inno>•ations in their cities.
The Webbs and Clintons arri\•ed in San Francisco Sunday
aboard Air Force One.
President Clinton ">Vas on a
high" after the summit, Webb
said, noting the president was
pleased world leaders get to "see
a different part of America."
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NEwsEXPnEss
DETROIT FREE PRESS
JUN 23 1~?
U.S. plan_ WQuld Mse
home buying in cities
Associated Press
~s-
to use all of our assets. all of our
DE.t-.'VIR - President Bill Clin-
.........
people."
ton today is set to announce plans
All but one of the initiatives
to help police officers and other could be accomplished y.,ithout
working people become urban new legislation, accordl.ng to White
home owners.
Hou~ officials.
The propos,al would award up to
Congress would have to ap2.000 police officers a 50-percent prove a. bill allowing families to
discount on some homes owned by convert Section 8 HUD rental
the Department of Housin~ and vouchers- into "empow~:rment
Urban Development. In adltion, vouchers" to pay house mortg'lges
first-time buy·
instead. As part
ers would get
of that prop<>sal,
a ·$200 break
the
Federal
in
closing
Housing Secretary
Housing
Ad·
costs
and
ministration
._.. ~ ~~Jing: tam.:
Cuomo said thewould commit
i11es who now·
to buy up to
get
federal
rental vouch~ .
ers could use
them to buy
initiatives were a way .2,000 mortgages dedicatto haft urban flight. ed to the pro-
gram.
· houses · in·
The $200 in
_.stead.
.
closing<osts
· Clinton planned to unveil his savings for first-time home buyers
Urbar Homestead initiatives to the would apply to mortgages insured ..
Conference of Mayors in San by the FHA. reducing by a quarter
Francisco.
point the current 1.7S.percent rate.
Housi!!K_ ·. Secretary Andrew 1'ld b
f $1 200 ·
Cuomo saM the initiatives were a
uat wou e on top 0 '
m
way to .halt. urban flight and lure such savings approved since 1995.
middle-claSs Americans back 16 cit·
1be pilot police ownership pro-
·u:s.
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les:.Cities are doing much better.
Poverty is down, unemployment is
down. Bu~ there are some real
.challenges· that remain.· Cuomo
said Sunday.
"We tan do more with cities in
terms of_!l:en~r~ng jobs. We n~d ..
gram, dubbed Officer Next Door.
would allow up to 2,000 police in
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DENVER - A~~dressing
the problem of America's decaying and dangerous cities,
President Clinton is scheduled
to' announce plans to help
'werking families a!'ld police
officers bc:come urban homeo\\·ners.
The pwposal wciuld award
up to 2,000 police officers a 50
percent discount on inner-city
homes owned by the Department of Housing and Crban
Development. In addition,
first-time buyers \\·ould get a
new $200 break in· closing
costs and working families
who now get federal rental
vouchers could use those to
pun.:hase houses instead.
Clinton, finishing a meeting
with leaders of the world's
largest industrialized nations
in Den vcr, plans to un\'cil his
"Urban Homestead'' initiatives today to the U.S. Conference of Mayors· in San Francisco.
Housing Secretary Andrew
Cuomo, who also plans to rele<isc a ~report on inner
cities today, hailed the initiatives as a way to halt urban
fl.ight and lure middle·class
Americans back to cities.
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D~R. (AP)- Addressing .. . Housi11e Secretary Andrew
voucbcu. into ~empowerment :.cent mortgage in5wanQ.fremiUJ11.
.tiJe plight of America's deaying and Cuomo, 'Who also planned to
vouchers"·to pay Jn)use mortgages Thil comes on top of 1.200 in
dangerous cities, President Oint on i! release a ·uuo report on inner
As· part on hat proposal,. such savings already appulvcd by_·
liet to announce pUID 10 help woJt- cities Munday, hailed the iaitia- instead
the Fellcral Home Loan MOJtgage Clinton since 1995.
in& families and police officen tives Sw1day as a way to halt urban Corp.,
better know a as Freddie
ll•e t'ilot police ow•iershi(> pro1leeome urban bomcowners.
flight and lure middle-clr1ss Mac, would comlnit lo pun;busc up gram, dubbed the MOirlccr Next
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2,000 police officers a 50 percent
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police in 5110 k1w-income neighboraiscount on inner~city homes l'overty is dowo, unemployment is
stockholder-owned corporalion hoods nationwide to huy HUL>owned by tbc Department of down·. But there are some real
establishCd by Congress in 1970 to owned inner city homes at halt·
rlousin11 and Urban Dcvelopme.r. challenges that remain," Cuomo
provide money to mortgage price. The. downpayrneot also:.
In addition, firsl-tir-.c buyers said in a telerhooe iolctvicw from
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would gel a_.new ·$200 break in San Francisco.
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Housing Sec~tary Andrew
Tho proposal would award up Cuotno, who also pi~ to reto 2,000 poli~ offia:n a 50 per· leaee a HUD report on _Inner citcent d.i.soount on inner·dt.Y homes iee Wday, hliiled the initiativea
owned by the Department of Sunday as a way. to halt urban
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to announce pl.ans to help worldJig famil.ies and po-
llee o·mcen becOme urban homeowners.· :_
The proposal would award as many a.S 2,1XXJ poUce otncers a so percent diso:!unt ·on inner-city
homes tbe ~oartment Ofl!oys~and .Urban DeveloomimF owns. lli aadition,t-time buyers·
woUld get a new $200 break in closing togu, a.ild
working families who . now. 8-et. rental.· vouche.."'S.
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world's largest industriallz.ed ·.nations ·here,
pla."lbed ·to unveil his "Urban HomeJtead" 1n1tia· ·
tives todqy ·to the U.S. ·Conference of Mayors .ln
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Middle claSs still abandoning cities
But I-IUD study finds some progress in poverty-stricken urban areas
By RONALD BROWNSTEIN
\oe Mgelet Time•
WASJIINGTON - Desplte recent
gains In creating jobs and fighting
crime, the nation's largest cities con·
tlnue to surfer from a mlddle·class ex·
odus and an Increasing concentration
of poverty, according to a government
slady to be released today.
The Department of Housing and Ur·
ban Development study concludes that
condlllons have Improved hi most maJor cities since the recession or the early 1990s, but many "are still lagging
behind ••. and continue to face very
deep-sealed problems that threaten
not only the long-term health or those
cit lea but their connected suburbs."
In a apeech today to lbe nation's
mayors In San Francisco; President
Clinton will endorse the report's prln·
clpal proposals, which center on me as·
ures to encourage greater home ownership In the clUes, a While House
offlcl!ll said on Sunday.
Those Ideas Include stepped-up enforcement efforts against housing dis·
crlmlnatlon, subsidies to encourage
pollee ocrtcers to live In Inner-city
neighborhoods, a reduction In federal
mortgage Insurance costs, and allowIng poor families lo apply federal rent
vouchers toward home ownership.
The study found that middle-class
families of all races continue to ml·
· grate out of clUes, leaving urban areas
with much higher concentrations or
poor and alngle·parent families than
their surrounding suburbs.
But IIUD al!!oO concluded that many
dUes are being rejuvenated by a re-
duclion In crime, a surge of hardworking new Immigrants, and an In·
flux of jobs In such areu as banking,
engineering and communications.
Rather than examining the health or
specUic communities, the study looks
at broad na tiona I trends affecting
cities.
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The study also notes lhal during the
past four years unemployment bas
droppe<l by nearly one-third In the na·
lion's 50 largest cities. Wltb that Jnvlg·
orated economic activity - and an In·
creased commitment to government
reform - mast city governments are
In stronger fiscal shape than earlier ln
the decade, the report concludes.
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reau of Labor StallstiClland the Census
Dureau, the study concludes Ibat clUes
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were located In the suburbs.
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rrohl the Jong·term erosion of their, •
mlddle-clus tax base. In 1996, middle-.·
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were three to four times more likely to' .
move from city to suburb than in the.:
other direction.
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what since 1993, It remains Just undel' ·
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JUNR 23,
1997
Clinton to announce urban homesteading plan
P.y LAURA MYERS
'l'Jre As.mcialed Pri!S$
DENVER -Addressing the plight of
America's decaying and dangerous citi~?s, Pr~?sident Clinton is set to announce plans to help "'or king families
and police officers become urban
homeowners.
The proposal would all'ard up to 2,000 po!ire officers a 50 perc~?nt discount on inner-dty homes owned by
the Department of Housing and Urban
Dc1·elopmen1. In addition, first-time
buyers would get a neiV $200 break in
rlosing ros!s and \\'orting families lfho
now get rental l'ouchers fl'oru Washingt~~ ::vu!j u.,,:: Un...-,t! lu purcHase houses
instead.
Clinton, finishing a meeting with
leaders of the world's largest industrialized nations here. lllanned lo unveil
his ''Urban Homestead" initiatives today to the U$ Conference of Mayors in
San Franciseo.
Housing Serr~?tary Andrew Cuomo.
"ho also planned to release a ll UD report on inner rilies today, hailed the
initiatives Sunda}' as a \Yay to halt ur·
ban night and lure Dlidclle-c!ass Am{'r-
il'ans uack to cities.
"Cities are doing much better. Poverty is down, unemployment is down.
But there arc some real challenges
that remain," Cuomo said in a lele-
t•hone interview from San F'rancisro.
"We can do more 1vilh cities in IPrm~ nr
generating jobs. We need to use all of
our assets, all or our people."
All but one of U1e initiati\'CS rouJd
be nccornl)lisheclwiUJOut new lcgislalion. according to White lfouse omcials.
Congress would ha1•c lo npprove a
!Jill allowing families to convert Seclion 8 HUO rental l'ouchers into Mem·
powcrm~?nt vouchers" to pay house
1110rtgages inslead. As part of that proposal, Freddie Mac, the Federalllomc
Loan ~lortgagc Corp., would commit to
purchase up to 2,000 mortgnges dedirated to the program.
Cuomo said the initiatives can hearcomplished within the 1998 budget re<tncst ror IIUD.
The $200 in closing costs saving5 for
fii~~·tilhe iaomc imyers wouhJ npply to
mortgages insured by lhe Federal
llousiugAdministration.•·e•lucingby a
quartPr point the cur'renl 1.75 percent
rate. This comes on lot> of $1,200 in
such savings already 3J!proved !Jy Clin·
!on since 1995.
The pilot police Oll'nership progr·am
riubbed the "Officer Next Door,'1
would allow up to 2,000 poli~e in 500
low-incol)lc neighborhoods nationwide !o buy IIUD·ownc!l inner city
homes ~t holf price. The down paynu~nl also would be .a bargain at
$100. Mayors designate such neigh.
borhoods.
Administration officials ~aid thl'
goal of lhl! Urban Homestead pat·kagc is to narrow lhp ~ify-~!1':-!1!"!:::::
home Oll'nership gap. Now. 72.1 percent of suburb11n families own their
homes, but only 49.8 percent of city
faruilies do.
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R~port: Flight to S,~gtf;ls
Stdl Plagues Big Cities-~~
Tke LO!l ANCEL€'.:) 'l'lt.l!1$
. Washfng~n - Despite recent gains
II\
\."Te.ttlllg pbs and Combatinn crime,
mortgage insuranCe costs .1nd aJiowina
poor families to apply feder.i.J rcn~
vouc~r<i toward h<>m.= ownership.
1k H!!~ stud)' foonl,j that middle.:·
the nation ·li lar~t cilit."S conftnw to
sutTer from an exodus of middle-cla.~s class f:~mrhes of all ra."<!~ continue ro
residents and an incrc-.tSio 2 cnncentra- migrnte. out of ~tics. leaving urban
tion of f'O\\.:rt)'. accordino to a govern- arc;a~ wuh much htghcr ~ncentr.itions
~~ report .schtdu.led for rei~ to- of poor and sin~tle-pru-ent familieS tlloln
day.
thl:ir surrounding suburt>s.
·.
The report by the Department of
But_Ht!D also cooclud¢<1 that rru1ny
Housing and Urban IXvelopment sa\o"S c:iti<.':'. an: being rcjuv~:n.:u~ by a redu.;.
~Oll~itiol)~ havt impr\)Ved in most
t•(>n Ill ~~. a surge of hard--working
.JOf C1t1cs smc:e the rec~~ion of the early ~ew unmrgrants. ana an irulux of jobs
19~. but many ·are ~till iaszcin!! b,:. m suc;h an:as a, banlcine. engin~rin"'
hind (and) ... continue to face ~very and ~mmunicatioru;.
.
.,
deep-seated problems that threaten not
onry the long-term htalth oftbo6e cities
but thc.'ir COIUlected 5Uburil.~. ~
In a s~h today 10 tbc natioo's
mayors tn San Francisco, President
Clinton will endor:se the repon's ~,j •.
p.ll proposals. wfucb center on a series
of m~ures to eocour~<>e greater home
own~rship in tbc citic:s. a 5C:lior White
Howe off'~ia! said Sunda v.
Those .ideas includ.: sieppcd-up enf(.)!'~ll\l:~t effo~ ~irut hOusing di~
ma-
~runtnatwn. su~u.l~ to encourage fX>
lrt~ officers to lr.:e in inner~ity
n~.~rboods. a reduction in fedcra.l
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Suburban job growth
outpacing Denver
I-IUD report calls for
initiatives to keep
.residents in cities
By John Brinkley
"Ni,U$"washing!rm Birea,t
WASHINGTON - Job &>rowth in
Denver's suburbs ha~ ~ubstantial
ly outpaced job growth in the city
during the 1990s, the federal ~ov
ernment reported }fonday.
Hoping to reverse this and other troubling trends, the De-part·
ment of Housing and Urban Development announced _an
ambitious agenda. for revitalizing
America's cities.
"There is ;~ dangerous disparity
between the munbcr of jobs being
created in the cities and in the
suburbs," HUD Secretary Andrew
Cuomo said in a conference CCIII
with reporters.
Tn the Denver area, the suburban job growth rate was 4.1 percent between 1993 and 1994,
while in the city il was 2.7 percent,
according to HUD. Between 1991
and 1993, suburban )ob growth
was 12 percent. compared to 3.3
percent in Denver.
ln Denver and elsewhere, "the
poor who are in the cities have
grown more socially and economically isolated and more physically
concentrated," Cuomo said. Urban
p(lverty went from 6 percent in
1970 to 14 percent in 1995.
Denver officials took issue with
the report. "Job growth in Denver
is the same or greater than any
other coWity in the metro area,"
said Max Wiley, director. of the
mayor's office of economic development. "To say that all the job
growth is happening in the suburbs is flatly not true."
Wiley said that between 1992
and 1995, there were 25,000 tiew
jobs created in Denve:r. Among th~
suburban cow1tics, only Arapahoe
could match that, he said.
In a speech to the U.S. C<mferencc of Ma}'Ol'S convention in San
Franci:s~:o, PresidenL Clinton announced a series of initiatives
aimed at keeping city-dwellers in
. Lhe cities. Some of them would
require congressional ilpproval.
The proposals include:
• Offering to sell .fiUD-owned
houses to police officers for 50
percent of their market value. The
officers would have to stay in them
!or at least three years.
• A $1,400 reduction in the cost
of secw-ing an inner-city home
mortgage through the Federal
Housing Authority.
• Offering vouchers to qualified
.home buyers to help with their
purchase:s.
Denver Mayor Wellington
Webb, who attended the Confer,ence of Mayor.s convention, said
he thought the proposal to sell
HUD houses to police officers at a
discount "has a lot of merit toiL"
The proposal "gives new police
recruits an opportunity to move
into l:he city and it also allows a
valuable use for some of that property, because 1 think neighborhoods that police officers li-.;e in arc
safer than other neighborhoods."
Webb said he was skeptical,
though, about the theory that
Denver has been losing its job
base to the suburbs.
"Wbat they're doing is utilizing
a statistic that puts all the suburbs
against us, which I don't think is
fair," he said. "We, compared to
the other dties across this country, are holding our own as it .
relates to jobs and holding our own '
as it relates to increased population."
�Need a polieeman? Look next door
Clinton has plan for
'invisible inner city'
The idea is hailed as a way
to halt urban flighf and
lure middle-class
. Americans back to cities.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER .._ Addressing the
~light of America's decaying and
t
r.;~erous
vouchers into "empowerment
vouchers" to pay house mortgages instead. As part or that proposal, Freddie Mac, the Federal
Housing Administration, would
commit. to purchase up to 2,000
mortgages dedicated to the
program.
Cuomo said the initiatives can
be a(':complished within the 1998
bu(lget request for HUD.
. The $200 in closing costs
Sa.vings for first-time home buyers
would applt to mortgages insured
by the Federal Housing Administration, reducing by a quarter
cities, President Clinn IS set to announce plans to
<help woddng families and police
~fffcers .becQrrie urban
omeoWn.ers. . .
: The propt:isal would aWard up
li. o 2,000 pollee officers a 50 perent discount on inner-city homes
wned by the Department of
ousing and Urban Development.
The pilot
n addition, first-time buyers
ould get a new. $200 break in
~closing costs, and ·working ·raxnipolice-ownership
5ies who n~w get ren~ vouchers.o:. .
dubbed the
from Washington could use iliose~. ;!'.. Y/ft"'~
'
.
.to purchase houses inste!id.
· · ''Officer Next Door ,.
. Clinton, fmishing a meeting
.
·
'
~leaders of the world's largest would allifw up to 2 000
indus~rialized nations here,
'
planned to unveil his "Urban
police to buy
Homestead" initiatives todav to
.
·
the u.s. Conference of Mayo~ in
HUD-owned znner-city
San Francisco.
·
1.~~....
t half
.
Housing Secretary Andrew
ff,VUWS a
· j)'r'tCe.
Cuomo, who also planned to
- - ·- rel~e a HUD...report on inner
point the current 1. 75 percent
cities today, hailed the initiatives rate. This comes on top of S 1.200
Sunday as a way tO'nalt urban in such savings already approved
flight and lure middle-class Amer- by Clinton since 1995.
icans back to cities.
The pilot pollee-ownership
"Citi~ are doing much bet· .program,
dubbed the "Officer
ter. Poverty is down, unemployment is down. But there are some Next Door," would allow up to
real challenges that remain," 2,000 police· in 500 low-income
Cuomo said· in a telephone inter· neighborhoods nationwide to buy
view from San Francisco. "We HUD-owned inner-city hontes at
can do more ·with cities in tenns of half price. The down payment also
generating jqhs. We need to use ·would be a bargain at $100. Mayall of our assets, all of our ors designate such
neighborhoods.
people."
Administration officials said
All but one of the initiatives
could be accomplished without the goal of the Urban Homestead
new legista.tion, according to package is to narrow the citysuburban home-ownership gap.
\V"hite House officials.
Congress would have to Now, 72.1 percent of suburban
approve a bill allowing families to families own their homes, but only
convert Section 8 HUD rental 49.8 percent of city families do.
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President offers
plan to aid· cities
FROM STAFF AND. WIRE REPoRTS
SAN FRANC1SCO ---. President Clinton, cheered the nation's mayors yesterday by declaring "our cities are
back" and announcing modest initiatives to make Americans feel safer in
low~ and moderate-income urban
neighborhoods.
incentives." ·
City Manager Robert C. Bobb Said
city officials are planning to research
the program to see if it would ·be
appropriate for Richmond. "I. hope it
doesn't become a bureaucratic nightmare," he said.· "They should make
the pro~ as simple as possible.".
Clinton also promised to give firsttime home-buyers a $200 break on
closing costs for living in ·the mostpopulous cities and to provide work'ing families the ~ce to move from
. rente.rS to owners with the help of
· federal.vouchers.
Clinton focused on good news: falling crime rates and Wlernpli:>yment
down by one-third· in the so· largest
. The centerpiece was the "officer
next door" program, offering police
50 percent discounts on 2,000 gov. . ernment-owned hqmes, particularly
' in large cities with high crime rates.
. The aim is to increase the visibility of
police. in ·trol1b1ed areas by moving
them into long-vacant homes.
"It will be some of the best money
the federal gov~ent ever spent," cities.
. ~
Clinton said in a: speech to the U.S.
·'Howevet; Housing Secretary AnCOnference of Mayors.
drew Cuomo released a report showRichmond, Va., Mayor Larry E. _ing that problems continue. It said
Chavis said he supports Clinton'~ middle-class migration to the subplari but wants to see ·more details urbs ~ continuing, city poverty rates
before implementing it.
are _rising, and large cities lost jobs
Chavis said members of City even as 12 million jobs were created
Council have made similar proposals nationwide.
·
in the past, but they were not populaf·
Clinton said the police-housing
among members of the Richmond plan builds
his efforts to put
Police Department.
100,000 new officers. on city streets.
"How many police officers want to
·Initially, the program will be availlive in the areas they pOlice day in able in Cleveland; Miami-Dade
and day out?" he said.- ..There has to County; Kansas City, Mo.; Los Angebe some very . real and very good. les; and Springfield, Mass.
on
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President proposing ways to help big cities
SAN
FRANCISCO
(AI')
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I..ookin~ to brc:alu: new life into
big U.S. cities, President Clinton
pledged yesterday to fulfill the
promi~ of America's vihr:mt economy by rebuilding the nation':;
decaying urb:1n center.;.
"We h:IVe to crc:~te in our cities
''ur n:uion:~l ideal of or11: Amcric::~
that crosse~ .;til racial. ethnic and
other lines, thQt gives every child a
c:hancc: to tl(lurish and every cilizen
a t'hance to serve," Clinton tolu the
Conference of Mayors.
"America can •1ever fulfill its cCimplcte promi~c until ••II our cities fulfil! fh~ir.;, ..
He propo.~eu initi:ttives to en·
courugc inner-city h01ne ownCTship
to huh nrb:m !light, creah:: new
downtown job~ and rcinvigornte an
U.S.
·~
......
urban landscape ph1gued by decay
:md crime.
The Urban Homestead initiative.~
would give up to 2.000 police .officers 50 percent discounts on purchasing gov~:rnment-owned homes,
provid.: tirst-time buyers a $200
brcal: on closing coH~ and give
working families the chance to
move from renters to owuers with
the help of federal vouchers.
Clinton said the police plan
would build on tht! !ldminisfrRtion'.!l
effom to put 100,000 new cops on
city strccts to make corrummities
Slifer.
"Yuu have shown me how more
police offict.r!'l on our streets h11ve
nu1cle so m:~ny of our neighbor·
hood.~ feel lik~: home nguin;· he
told the mayors. "Jusr imagine
what It will be like when police
make those cities their home.''
His spe.e.:h follows n weekend
spent in Denver meeting with the
leaders of the world's lnrge.~t indl.L~
trialized nati011$ and Russia.
While in C:1lifornia, Clinton also
planned lo attend fund·raiscrs for
Democratic Sen. narb!U'II lloxer in
San Francisco and los Angeles.
Boxer is facing s~rious
All but one of the pre.~ident's
housing initi!stives can be done actmini.motively in the 1998 budget
request for th<: Department of
Housins 11nd Urbun Development, a.
. 30 percent incrca.~e to $6 billion.
Congress would have Ill approve
legislation to lr;t famili<','i convert
HUD Section 8 rentnl vouchers into
Republican ''empowerment vouchc;r-3" to ptty
challengers in her 1998 rc·election
bid.
Before lte:~ding back to Washington, Clinton also WllS visiting a Los
Angel~ elementary tchool to announce tluu Kai~er Pcrmanentc ha.s
ngrced to pruvidc $tOO million in
rrcc health c::~rc: over the nexc five
yew for up to 50,000 uninsured
children annually from low income
President-----(Com inure! fr01n Page One)
tration, reducing by a quarter point
the current 1.75 percent mortgage:
im>uranc:c premium. This comes on
top of $1,200 in 5uch savings a!·
ready approved by ainton.
Tile one-year pilot "Officer Next
Door'' program would offet 11p to
2.000 police officers in low-income
neighborhoo<1s the chance to buy
HUD-owned homes nt half P'!ce
with a down payment of only SIOO.
The Idea is to enlarge the comrnu·
nity policing concept credited with
helping reduce crime.
.
Five cities already h11vc agreed to
partieip&:e: Cleveland, Miami-Dade
County, Fla; Kanns City, Mo.; Los
Angeles and Springfield, Mass. In
all, 24 citie.s arc expected to partici-
pate, according to HUD.
The goal of the Urban Home·
'stead initiative is to narrow the
city-suburban home ownership gap;
Now, 72.1 percent of suburban
faJDilies own their homes, but only
49.8 percent of city families do,
HUD says.
"We can do more: with cities in
lerms of generating jobs. We need
fD usc all of our a.sset.s, all of our
familie~.
people," HUD Secretary Andrew
Cuomo said. in releasing a report
that showed middle: class ll'ligration
to the suburbs continuing and city
·
According to the rerort:
-Large U.S. cities lost jobs during the pnst few years, allhough 12
million jobs were created nationwide during Clinton's first four
years in office.
-The poverty rate in cities rose
from 14.2 percent in 1970 to 20.6
poverty rates rising.
percent in 1995, after a slight
decline from 21.3 percent in 1993.
-Only 11 of the 30 lorgcst
American cities in 1970 ha\'e more
people in them today than two
decades ago, while even in growing
cities the middle class and wealthy
are leaving for the suburbs, leaving
the poor behind.
'I'hc administration has asked
Congress to approve $2 billion to
expllnd ''empowerment ~ones"
that provide bl.lSinesses 14l~t breaks
in exchange for locating in innercity areas. It also wants $2.6 billion
to clcan up "browntields," formerly industria!itcd areas of inner
cilies.
home mortgages instead. The Federal Home I..Oi'ln Mortgage Corp.,
better known ns Freddie Mac,
would commit to purchas~: 1.000 10
2,000 such mortgages.
For lirst·time home hllyer-3, the
ndded $200 in closing co.~t!l s:tvings
wuuld apply to mortg11gcs insur~d
by the Feder01l Housing AdminisCContinoed on J>~g• 7, Column I)
�Hail plan for police to hlly homes in inner-city i
....
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_ We like President Clinton's J>roposa1 to
aid" police officers, -worlnng families and
renters to purchase homes in fhe.nati1JI1'8
.inner-cities. A key part of the plan -will
offer 60 peroent discouots to ils .many as
- 2,000 :police officers so they can prircbase
fcdecally foreclosed homes in 500 lowincome neigb.borboods.
_
It is a very gpod idea "to bave the peop1e who en:furoe the niles of a community
became a purl of~ or a similar com· mi,IDity. The police who take advantage of
the opportunities in CJinton•a plan stand
a very good chance of becoming mare
understanding of what ·their neighbor~
are going fh.rough.
That knowledge ~help .sw:b. officers
-
-
-
beoome more CUIIJpall5ion.ate, -wu1emtand• permitting working familiell who get
iD g, -patient, alert a:nd otherwise more :rent vouchen .ftmn HUD to usc the d.ooable to suooessfully do their jobs.
UlllentB to buy hOIDCI!. _
-.
'The' pr~nce of police officep;~ as resi.
- • increasing, by 100 percent. tha numdents of a given community '("JID; hel_p to her of housing dist:rimination eases sent
stabilize it BD.J.in. som& insl;ml,ces, enable to the US. .flllltice Dc_partmeut.
the Deigbhornood to .increase its cbant:eB
One of the most imporla.Dt issues in
"to pr~. Clinton"s -plan also c:an hel_p society is "that wllstantial porticns of the
strengthen inner-city areas by:· naticin's inner-cities need to 'be :rebuilt.
• :reducing t:he closing costs -fur .first- '.l'hHre 3re toO mfliiY abanaoned buildings.
time buyers and m'efltingways that. ~re Many- of tb.em. are taken ever by gangs.
.renters will be able to purchase 'home&.
and criminals a:niJ are used for violent,
• giv.iDg~t-ti:me home buyen; a $200 -illegal activities. Abandoned buildings
break on closing costs when they bUy can be renovated.. Dligl1ted .neighborhoOds
inner-city. honie.s that have mortgages c:wi be "turned-into ilouriahing- oommunlinsured 'by·fho~er.al Housing~- ties. The inner-citieEJ of America can be
tratiQD..
saved. Thoe things r.nn be done but~ otm-
0
ouiSiy, will tske great effort, 1ong-tenr.M
OOIIJIDitment and a lot of.hanl work.
~
Ct-imo, -poverty m1d despair still plagru
most of our inner cities. That, too, cau bt~
turned around fur the hetter. Same of t.run
wpys l.hings -can bo changed arc lrndi-~
. tional ones.- like the positive -resu.lt... -u
that can come from neigbborbood watcll
clubs, ctunmunity groups, block dubs.
religiO'Il.B institutions, etc.
Dut many of the changes are going to
have i.o come from some non-traditionaJ
.efforts. Hopefully, Clinton's proposal to
get polioo and others to -purchase homes
in -the inner city w.ill prove to bo one of
tbose ·ana will seriously oppose crime.
pi>ve:rty and oommunity liijgnt.
�Tues., June 24, 1997
Rocky Mountain News
--
Clinton asks nation's mayors
to help in revitalizing cities
By Dan Smith
SacranumJo B~-,
1
SAN FRANCISCO - Claiming America's cities are reoounding from
their cririle-ridden, bankrupt past, President Clinton on Monday OU[lined a plan for continued renewal and asked the nation's mayors to
help him finish the job.
':America can never fulfill its complete promise
INSIDE
unW all our cities fulfill theirs," Clinton told the
annual U.S. Conference ofM.ayors meeting. "We\•e
• Higher job
grm•1th cited
got to keep working until we extend the prosperity of
in suburbs.
this recovery to every neighborhood in America.''
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Clinton also warned congressional Republicans
that he would veto any budget bill that violated a balanced-budget agreement to restore some benefits to legal immigrants.
Fresh from an eight-nation summit in Denver, the president spent
Mond.a}' in California, speaking to mayors and helping Democratic U.S.
Sen. Barbara BoxerriUse $1.5 million.
·The president also visited a Los Angeles elementary schooJ to
announce that Kaiser Permanente has agreed to provide $100 million
in free heaJth are mrer the ne>.t five years for up to 50,000 uninsured
children from low-income families.
~ripps
Howard 1'\'ews Service
,·,
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:
Half-price homes. are the lure
in '-Officer Next Door' proposal
"Urban Homestead" initiatives
today to the U.S. Conference of
Mayors in San Francisco.
Housing Secretary Andrew .
DENVER - Addressing the
plight of America's decaying Cuomo, who also planned tore1
and dangerous cities, President lease a HUD report on inner
Clinton is set to announce plans cities today, hailed the ini.tiato help working families and . tives Sunday as a way to halt
police officers becoihe urban urban flight and lure middleclass Americans back to cities.
·homeowners.
All but one of the initiatives
'l'he proposal would award up
' to 2,000 police officers a SO per- could be accomplished without
cent discount on inner-city new legislation, th·e White
homes owned by the Depart· House said. Congress would
meot of Housing and Urban have to approve a bill allowing
Development. In addition, first· families to convert BUD's Sectime buyers would get a new tion 8 rental vouchers into
$200 break in closing costs, and ''empowerment vouchers" to
working families who get pay house mortgages. As part
rental vouchers from Washing- of that proposal, Freddie Mac,
ton could use those to purchase the Federal Home Loan Mort·
. gage Corp., would commit to
homes.
Clinton planned to unveil his purchase up to 2,000 mortgages
From Our Press Sorvlctts
for the program.
Cuomo said the initiatives
can be accomplished within the
1998 budget request for BUD.
The $200 in closing cost savings for first-time home buyers
would apply to mortgages_ .iJlsured by the ·Federal Housing
Administration, reducing by a
quarter-point the current 1.75
percent rate. This comes on top
of $1,200 in such savings a)ready approved by Clinton
since 1995.
The pilot police ownership
program, dubbed "Officer Next
Door," would allow up to 2,000
police in 500 low-income neighborhoods nationwide tll buy
BUD-owned inner-city homes
at half-price. The down paynient would be 5100.
Administration officials said
!
the goal of the Urban Homestead package is to narrow the
city-suburban home ownet$hip
gap. Now, 72.1 percent of suburb an families own their
homes, but only 49.8 percent of
city families do.·~.
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The BUD study concludes
that conditions have improved
in most major cities since the
recession of the early 1990s,
but it found that middle-class
families of all races continue to
migrate out of cities, leaving
urban areas with much higher
concentrations of poor and single-parent families than their
surrounding suburbs.
However, the study also
notes that, during the past four
years. unemployment has
dropped by nearly one-third in
the nation's ...
SO largest cities.
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moved city po_lice
, "Police officers are not ex. e~pt from becoming victims of
Ttl~ Comm&l'clat Appeal
· crime. Apparently they feel
· more comfortable in a different
The dty of lylemphis started environment," he said.'
a program io 1995 that offered · · U.S. Housing and Urban De~ ·
down payment assistance to po- velopment Secretary Andrew
lice officers if t,hey bought Cuomo unveiled details of Clin·
homes in six high-crime neigh- ton's Officer Ne>.."t Door pro·
gram during a press conferborhoods in the inner city.
Two years later, there have ence Monday. It is one of sev·
eral initiatives the President is
been no takers.
Now President Clinton is up- launching to bait urban flight
ping the ante. He is offering- and lure middle-income Afri·
police officers government·· can-Americans back to the
owned houses in the inner city, inner city.
Urban flight was one of sevat half price.
·
The .idea behind both- initia- eral troubling findings of Clintives i~ to get more police pres- ton's "'State of Cities Report,"
ence in center cities to reduce released Monday at the U.S.
crime. But Memphis officials Conference of Mayors meeting
have learned that's not so easy in San Francisco. The study, j'
to do.
' ordered by the President in
"We've had a plan in place January, was conducted by
for several years and our offi- HUD.
cers bave not'shown any interThe .study showed that the
est," ,said Steve Brown, presi- nation's cities are improving
dent of the Memphis Police Association.
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!t~~But tbe~
a·re some problems Clinton
wants td address. . '
·
''They (cities) are doing
t:nuch '~letter than they were
doing ip. the '70s and '80s,"
Cuomo lolci reporters Monday.·
· ''Ho*ver, cities. still face
real·prqt:>ems.''
'
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The Jtudy highlights three ,
specifi problem ate as: urban'
flight, the disparity in the number offjoblS produced in the
!nner Mty and tbQse moving
mto tfj3 suburbs tmd an increase ~ poverty in the inner
city.
;
· Cuolio said HUD will be the
lead ·alene}' in 'addressing the
preble~. He pro~sed ~~tails
of a ~or HUD reorgamzation
later teweek.
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The
fO.cer Next Door pro-
gram ''ould award up to 2,000
police . fficers a so: percent discount; on inner-eity homes
owned by RUD. '
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allocated for the program nationw~e, said Cmomo. Cities
woul!:( choose which cdmmunities ~-ould qualify. The only
HUD -mandate would be that
the o cers remain in the home·
three iYears.
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first~
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$200 · uctian in closing costs.
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hou ng -voucn.ers to rent
hous s in the private. market
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l!ousing and Community Development.
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6/23 To 6/24
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World News Now
ABC Network Programming
6/2:i/97
04.22 TZ; Mayors conference. Presider r Clinton is meeting with the
country's mayors today in Dan Francisco. V; Bill & Hillary Clinton. He
will announce an Inner City program to ;ncrease housing benefits. ar.d
increase police officers. GR; Urban Horr estead Initiative. 04.51
3:00-5:00 AM
2)
Good Morning America
ABC Network Programming
6/23/97
7:00·8:00 AM
03.18 Pres. Clinton. Pres. Clinton is in ·ian Francisco today to address
the nation's Mayors. V; Pres. and Mrs. :limon arriving in San Francisco.
The talks will focus on revitalizing America· s inner cities. GR; Urban
Homestead Initiative: 50% police diSCOl nt on HUD- owned homes. 1st time
buyers clos.ing cost discount, rental VOL chers for home purchases. 03.42
31
Good Morning America
ABC Network Programming
6/23/97
04.08 R; Pres. Clinton. Pres. Clinton wi I present the Urban Homestead
Initiative to the nation's mayors today ir. San Francisco. GR;Urban
Homestead Initiative: 50% police discot nt on HUD-owned h•)mes, 1st time
buyers closing cost discount. rental vou ~hers for home purchases. 04.35
4)
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All News Channel Cable Programming
6/23/97
04.01 Clinton. In San Francisco, Presidt nt Clinton is sharing his ideas
of improving the inner city with Urban t- omestead Plan. It will encourage
policemen and families to move into urb m areas, with discounts on HUD
homes. Details of plan. 04.32
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CBS This Morning
CBS Network Programming
6/23/97
01.45 Headlines. > Pres. Clinton is in ~an Francisco following the
conclusion of the Denver Summit of the Eight. He will unveil a plan to
rebuild America's inner cities. Pres. Clin on will propose to the US
Conference of Bears that police officer should be allowed to by inner
city housing, owned by the US governrrent, at 50% off. V; Clinton arriving
in San Francisco. V; scenes from Denve Public Library. SB; Pres.
Clinton. talking about a tobacco deal. Bi.: Plante reporting live from
San Francisco.
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6/23/97
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CNBC Cable Programming
05.56 Headlines/ John Snyder. > Year:; ago the middle cla::s fled from many
American cities. Clinton is trying to get them to move back. At a speech
to the nation's mayors he read a plan t·, to just that. He is using
financial incentives to encourage peopl• to·buy homes in th•~ inner c'ty.
V; Clinton and Gore. SB; Clinton talkin( about our cities. He also wants
to give police officers discounts on hon :es in the inner cities.
7)
Early Edition
CNN Cable Programming
6/23/97
31.21 Top stories. > Recap of story or Texas train collisior• from top of
hour. > Recap of story on Pres. Clintor and policing from top of hour.
HUD. > Recap of story on Texas floodi1g from top of hour. 32.22.
7:00-8:00 AM
SJ
Early Edition
CNN Cable Programming
6/2:i/S7
8:00-S:OO AM
30.01 Top stories. > Recap of story or Medicare increases
from 7:00 Hour.
Clinton City Initiatives, HUD.
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CNN Cable Programming
6/2~:/97
02.2 5 Pres. Clinton. Pres. Clinton is in ·>an Francisco to unveil a major
·urban initiative. The White House is ver' disappointed with the Suprl!me
Court's ruling. Charles Ruff, attorney, v ill give statement concerning
the decision. This brings new life to Ker neth Starr's in-vestigation in
little Rock. Pres. Clinton will be addres: ing .the Mayor's Coderence.
Pres Clinton will announce initiatives tt at will allow public housing
resident to take section 8 housing vouc •ers and use them as; a mortgage,
he wants to reduce the closing cost on :HA loans. and police officers
would get a 50% discount on inner city homes owned by HUD. John King
reporting live from San Francisco. 03.4:;
1 Ol
12:00-12:30 PM
CNN Today
CNN Cable Programming
6/23/97
37.36 TZ; Inner Cities. Pres. Clinton addressed the US Conference o~
Mayors today. V; Pres. Clinton at the cc nference, GR; Clinton City
Initiatives. SS; Pres. Clinton talks about how having more police on the
streets have made neighborhoods feel li .e home again. V; The US
Conference of Mayors logo in the backg ·ound. HUD says that fewer than
half of the people living in cities own th•·•r homes. 38.59
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6/23/97
8:00-8:30 PM
16.07 Safety. Pres. Clinton launching campaign to bring mNe safet•r and
resonance to America's inner cities. V; Mayor's convention scenes in San
Francisco, Pres Clinton and VP AI Goro . Plan was outlined -3t speec:1
before US Conference of Mayors Key il"litiatives include; di~.count fcor
police to purchase homes foreclosed b\ HUD, lowered closing costs, rent
vouchers for mortgage payments. PC; l'res. Clinton, not enough homes in
cities, reduced FHA mortgage premium ; in recent years, will cut premiums
if they buy in central cities. 1 7.11
/
12) Fox News Now/Fox In Depth
Fox News Channel Cable Programming
6/23/97
02.1 0 Urban Renewal. R; President Clir ton gave a speech at the US
Conference of Mayors. He wants to giv:! police officers and fire figh\ers
the chance to move into urban homes 'lith financial benefits. 02.25
1 3l
1 :00-1 :30 PM
Fox News Now/Fox On Politics
Fox News Channel Cable Programming
6/23/97
4:30-5:00 PM
02.20 TZ; Urban Renewal. President Cl nton wants urban areas like
Washington, DC to keep pace with the :::ountry's improving economy. At a ·
Mayor's Conference in San Francisco h! outlined an incentive to bring
more people into inner cities. GR; $28 i 1 proposed tax incentives. SB;
Clinton talking about his proposal. GR; 'nd round of urban e·mpowerment
zones. GR; Discount HUD housing for r: :llice officers. 02.58
26.12 Clinton President Clinton is takir g a hard look at sorne business.
He addressed many of the country's m< yors in San Francisco. He announced
initiatives to promote home ownership i 1 inner cities while rnflecting on
his administration's first term success 11 dth housing policies. SB;
Clinton talking about his initiatives. I, Sl1arpe James IDl, Newark, New
Jersey, saying he thinks it was a very ir 1ponant initiative by Clinton.
He talks en this. Clinton wants police o· ficers to move into these inner
cities. and is giving them a 50% break ,.n their homes if the•1 do. Sharpe
talks on why he thinks this will work. H a talks about the improvements
that must be done before some of thesE people will want to move back.
29.55
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Fox News Channel Cable Programming
6/23/97
5:00-6:00 PM
00.45 Urban Renewal. President Clintor gave a speech today at the Mayors'
Conference. He unveiled three steps to !ncourage home owners to buy in
urban areas. SB; President Clinton says that they will cut thE: prices of
homes if they are bought in the central ·:ities. HUD is working with the
program. 01.15
151 Fox News Now/The O'Reilly Report
Fox News Channel Cable Programming
6/23/97
6:00-7:00 PM
01.05 Urban Renewal. President Clintor wants to encourage home ownership
as a way to help the inner cities of this :ountry. GR; HUO study shows
most new jobs are in suburbs. SB; Presi jent Clinton says they <~re going
to cut the premium again if they buy ho nes in their central cities.
01.40.
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6/23/97
Fox News Channel Cable Programming
05. 19 TZ; City Saving. President Clinto 1 was at the US Cor.ference of
Mayors in San Francisco. V; President c:linton in San Franci!;co. V; Police
officers. He proposed a deal that would allow police officers to buy
homes in cities at a discount. SB; Clintc n says the police have made
neighborhoods feel like at home again. /; Pardoe sign. V; Fc,otage from US
Conference of Mayors. V; EPA Adminis rator. I; Patrick McCrory, Charlotte
Mayor, says this is going to cost cities lundreds of millions of dollars
and will have very little impact. I; Denni; Archer, Detroit Mayor. talks
about the money that has to be paid. Ji n Angle reporting. 07.25.
7:00-8:00 PM
17) Headline News
CNN Headline News Cable Programming
6/23/97
00.51 Urban Communities. President Cl nton is unveiling a new proposal to
boost urban communities. That is at the conference of U.S. Mayors in San
Francisco. V; President Clinton. GR; Clir ton City Initiatives; 50%
discount for police to purchase homes f Jreclosed by HUD. $200 off closing
costs to qualified first-time buyers of citt homes. Federal rent vouchers
could be used for mortgage payments. ('1.29.
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Headline News
CNN Headline News Cable Programming
6/23/97
04.03 Clinton. President Clinton is addn ssing the US Conference of
Mayors in San Francisco. V; Bill and Hil; ry Clinton. He is pushing
initiatives that will attract the middle cia ;s back to the centers. GR;
Clinton City Initiatives: > 50% discount for police to purchase homes
foreclosed by HUD. > $200 off closing :o.Sts to qualified fir!;t·time
buyers of city homes. > Federal rent vo 1chers could be used tor mongage
payments. SB; Clinton talking about the proposal. 05.05
1 :30-2:00 PM
191 News
MSNBC Cable Programming
6/23i97
05.35 TZ; President Clinton's Speech. R~cap on President Clinton from
above. President Clinton is going to be g 'ving a speech about the inner
city violence in a few minutes. The Presdent has left the Summit of
Eight behind him for this speech. He will address over 300 Mayors, who
are saying that he is not doing enough. lte has a 'plan called the Urban
Homestead plan. He will offer fire officia s and police officers the
chance to buy homes in the low income 1eighborhoods for half the price
from the HUD. This would give the offic•·rs a cheaper community, and will
be better for the people in the communit es for having the officers
their. There is a HUD report out that say; that there is- flight from the
urban areas to the rural areas. Several m Jyors think that it is a
wonderful idea and think that it should h
come a long timu ago. They
want the president to do more then this hough. Recap on the! Supreme
Court rulings from above. Officials at the White House say that this is a
stunning set back. John Palmer, reportin J live from San Francisco. 10.05
12:00·1 :00 PM
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6/23!97
12:00-1:00 PM
4 7 55 TZ; Urban Agenda. Recap on Url·an Agenda from abClve. I; Chief Jules
Martin, NYPD Housing Bureau says tha the mayor and the president of the
housing bureau in NY agreed on a polic! resident program. This will
invite 60 officers and their families to n side in the 28 urban sites.
They want to get an interaction of the t ·fficers and the residents already
there. They want the officers to be the ·ole models. They hc.ve had many
officers call in to participate. They are encouraged that the c,fficers
will be selected by the housing develop nent to participate. They wo'Jid be
doing community services with kids anc residents around the neighborhood.
52.00
201
News
MSNBC Cable Programming
6/23/97
02.46 TZ; President Clinton. President I :linton is trying to revitalize
America's inner-city. He offered a disco mt to new home buyers. It was
unveiled at a speech at the Conference >f Mayors. V; New Homes. V: City.
PC; Clinton, says he wants 35% of inm rcity people owning their own
homes. He has offered a half price deal ro get V; Police officers to live
in inner city communities. HUD released a report about the inner city
growth and the poverty rates are rising n the innercities. Ca111pbell
Brown reporting. 06.12
6:00-7:00 PM
21) NBC News at Sunrise
NBC Network Progremming
-:.6/23/97
02.1 0 President Clinton. From Congres~. the tobacco deal goes to the
Wh•te House and President Clinton has 1•remised to study it carefully.
He's now in California after the V; Sumr 1it of Eight in Denve: and later
talking about urban affairs. V; Conferen. e of Mayors. He'll tcllk about
giving police officers getting financial in• entives to live in V; housing
projects. I; Mayor Sharpe James, Newar <. NJ, thinks it's a C·:>mmendable
proposal. World leaders of the Summit v·arned China to pres•:!rve the
freedoms of Hong Kong which will soon revert to Chinese control. V;
President Clinton thinks there will be sor 1e tension there. David Bloorn
reports Congress votes whether to give V1ost·Favored Nation trading status
to China despite human rights violations 03.50 ,
5:30-6:00 AM
22) All Things Considered
NPR Network
6/23i97
1 .00.00 News/ Corey Flentoff. > Pres. :linton told the nation's mayors
today that cities are back and cited lowe~ crimes rates and unemployment
4:00·6:00 PM
in the 50 largest urban areas. He outline f a plan to make innl!r city
areas safer by encouraging police officer; to move into high crirTJe
neighborhoods. SB; Pres. Clinton, talkin[ about the Officer Next Door
Program to be started through HUD.
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5:00-5:30 AM
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6/24/97
4.23 Clinton. President Clinton is headi 19 home after speaking to the
conference of mayors in San Francisco. His first initiative is to bring
safety back to inner cities, which will g ve housing breaks tC• law
enforcements. PC; President Clinton sa· :s we will start a officer next
door program in the. coming year. It wir: be through Hud. Tina Stage
reporting. 5.42
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6/2~./97
00.00 Headlines /Bill Lynch reporting; Clinton, NAACP, Marines; > Clinton
will Speak to the U.S. Conference of Me yors in SF and outline plan to
give police officers a 50% discount on !:overnment homes that police are
willing to move into in the inner citues. : Baltimore mayor Kurt Smolk
concurrs "cop on the block" housing su lSidy.
25)
Channel 1 1 News at Ten
WPIX·TV (Jnd) CH 11 New York
6/23/97
27.29 Clinton unveils urban plans Presic ent Clinton unveiled a new plan
to give 2000 police officers discounts·fc r purchasing government owned
homes. V; Clinton. 27.58
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Eyewitness News This Morning
6:00-7:00 AM
KABC·TV (ABCJ CH 7 Los Angeles
6/23.197
38 51 Clinton in Californ.a. PRES Clintor · will address a: conference of
Mayors in San Francisco. Clinton will un 1eil plans to allow pc1lice to buy
inner city homes through HUD at fifty p1 r cent off. V; Clinton and the
First Lady getting off Air Force One. 39.11
27) KFWB News 98
KFWB·AM lind) Freq. 980 Los Angeles
6/23/97
8:00·9:00 AM
06.11 PRES Clinton will address the U.!: Conference of Mayors and
suggests that the mayors should attract the middle class back to the
inner cities. The PRES wants to give poli ;e moving into the irmer city a
50% discount from the inventory of horr es owned by HUD. The PRES will come
to Mar Vista Elementary and attend a fur draiser for Senator Barbara Boxer
tonight. Sryan Bland reporting.
·
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6/23/97
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08.00 Mayor Riordan Comments. Riorda l has commented on PRES Clinton's
call for police to own homes in inner citiE s. I; Riordan says it makes it
easier. Alex Sullivan Reporting.
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6/23/97
35.08 - Meeting. Clinton talked to the I JS Conference of Mayor. SB;
Clinton says there'll be an officer next t oor program through HUD next
year. SB; A spokesman says funds can be used for various home purchase
expenses 36.21
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6/23/97
3:00-4:00 PM
37.49 Mayor's Conference President Cl nton has unveiled a new initiative
at the Conference of Mayors to encour.: ge more police to bt:y and live in
homes in inner cities, and enable more • \mericans to becomo homeowners by
the year 2000. 38.36
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6/23/97
4:00-5:00 PM
50.19 Mayor's Conference President Cl nton has unveiled a new initiative
at the Conference of Mayors to encourage more police to buy and live in
homes in inner cities. and enable more J ,mericans to becomE· homeowners by
the year 2000. 50.48
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6/23/97
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37.49 Mayor's Conference President Cli lton has unveiled a new initiative
at the Conference of Mayors to encoura 1e more police to buy and live in
homes in inner cities, and enable more /. mericans to become homeowners by
the year 2000. 38.36 ·
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Good Day Philadelphia at 6:30
WTXF-TV !Fox) CH 29 Philadelphia
6/24.197
13:51 V; President Clinton at V; US Cor terence Of Mayors Meeting in San
Francisco, proposed initiatives encourag ng people to buy cit'! homes. I;
Clinton: reduced FHA mortgage pre.miun s 3x, proud of that, cutting it
another $200 for city home purchases. l'olice Officers given discount on
govt·foreclosed homes. 14:30
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6/23197
09:26 TZ; President Clinton. Clinton add·essed meeting of nQtion's mayor.
V; Clinton and Willie Brown at Fairmont ~otel. Clinton announced housing
incentive for police to move into cities. /.lso . a program for low income
families to buy homes. I; Willie Brown, ~an Francisco Mayor; reponds to
president's speech. Laura MarQuez repor;ing. 11:22
11 :00·1 1:30PM
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Ct •ntend that living in the
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John Solis, San Francisco Police Dept.; t links it's ur;-~safe. I; Oakland
Resident;the community has to want to l1e protected. Clinton's plan would
let officers buy government owned homEs at 50% discount. V; Int. Condo.
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6/23/97
25.47 TZ; President in Bay Area PresidEnt Climon arrived in San
Francisco yesterday; he will address the National Conventior1 of Mayors to
discuss the problems of urban America 1nd unveil his urban homestead
plan; the plan would encourage police o 'ficers to live in the communities
they patrol. GR; President and Mrs. Clin :on. Police officers would
receive a 50% discount on HUD homes in the cities where they work,
allowing them to become homeowners 'vith the help of federal vouchers.
7:00-9:00 AM
26.25
36)
Mornings on Two
KTVU-TV lind) CH 2 Oakland
6/23/97
1 3.11 Live with Ross. V; Ross at Fairmc nt Hotel. Clinton there for
Mayors' Conference. T; To talk to Norm Rice of Seattle; Richard Daley of
Chicago, Andrew Cuomo, and Mayor W llie Brown. 13.48
7:00-8:00 AM
37) Mornings on Two
KTVU-TV !lnd) CH 2 Oakland
6/23.'97
1 7. 55 Live with Ross. I; Andrew Cuomc. Housing secretary: We sent out
mercedes Marques, our deputy general counsel at HUD. She has done an
assesment and looked at some of the fat:ts. COn the Asian fa.11ilies'
remarks about bomb threats) I; ·Cuomo: .et's get the facts first before we
respond. 22.35
38)
8:00-9:00 AM
Morning Edition Local Cut-Ins I
WAMU-FM (NPRI CH 88.5 Washington
"6/23/97
6:00-8:00 AM
04.10 WAMU/LOCAL Report on the Diff culty of Minorities in Finding Rental
Properties. A recent study by the Greate Washington Fair Hc·using
Commission found that nearly every juris diction discriminates in some
fashion when it comes to grant minoritie • fair renting housins:. D.C. had
the least amount of incidents of discrimir :ation while some 70 percent of
minority applications in Fairfax County Ylo ere turned down. Montgome'y
County turned down about 60 percent o minority applications during the
test period. In light of the findings, Mont JOmery County has pledged to
dedicate more than $400,000 in progran .s to discourage hou:;ing
discrimination. Fairfax County plans to S('end only about $18:3,000 for the
same purposes and hopes to join a regior .ar effort 'to reduce unfair
housing practices. The Fair Housing Corr.rnission is disappointed in the
amount of money Fairfax is dedicating to the effort but reluct.!ntly
agrees with county supervisors that it is 3 start in the right di:ection
in ending housing discrimination. Juliann•! Welby reporting. 0!}.14
39) News
WTOP-AM (CBS! CH 1500 Washington
6/23/97
4:00-5:00 PM
02.16 President Clinton. At US Conferen ~e of Mayors. Announc:tts in~er-city
revitalization plans incl discounted housir g for police officers. SB;
Clinton, police officers will make these nr •ghborhoods their homes again.
02.40
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WTOP·AM (CBS} CH 1500 Weshington
6/23/97
35.42 Today at the White House/Mark '\lofer reporting; President Clinton
introduced urban agenda at US Confere .1ce of Mayors. Police officers will
get 50% discount on federally owned romes. SB; Clinton, police will make
neighborhoods their homes. FHA will rEduce interest in urban areas. 37.14
391
4:00-5:00 PM
40) News 4 Live at 5
WRC·TV (NBC! CH 4 Washington
6/23/97
33.06 Police and residents program. St med by Governor G•wrge Allen has
helped police officers buy homes in Vir!'inia neighborhoods. SB; Mark
Bergin, Alexandria Police, says resident; have come to him for help.
5:00·6:00 PM
34.07
News 4 at 6
41)
WRC-TV (NBC) CH 4 Washington
6/23/97
6:00-7:00 PM
1 7.1 0 Pres. Clinton addresses U.S. Cor ference of Mayors in San Francisco.
Clinton urges more home ownership in ·he inner cities. SB; Clinton. key
was to give individual families the powEr and responsibility to make :i'le
most of their own lives. Police officers ·vould be given discounts on
buying government owned homes. 1 7. ~ 8
.. .
1 7. 59 Police Housing. One hundred thirty police officers in Virginia have
bought homes in urban areas they patrc I. I; Mark Bergin, Ale·xandria
Officer, we could not afford Alexandria. Police and Residence Program
launched by Virginia Housing Develome lt Authority offered -four percent
loans in seventeen targeted urban areas HUD homes are in more crime
ridden areas. I; Edward Hudgins, Cato II :stitute, the decreaSE! in crime
will be minor. Julie Carey Reporting. 20 20
421 Fox Morning News
WTTG-TV (Fox) CH 5 Washington
6/23/97
6:30-S:OO AM
1 .06.1 0 TZ, Off the Record. Discussion about Summit of thE.J Eight, US
Conference of Mayors. Studio Interview with Eddie Hahe, Re-publican
political consultant, Tom O'Donnell, Der 1ocratic strategist and Josh
Young, George magazine. Sl; Young, sa IS one of the most important things
about the summit was not just economi :s, but other troubled spots in the
world. Sl; O'Donnell, says this summit '"as historic because Russia was
included. Sl; Mahe. says we have the strongest economy. Discussion about
what Clinton will discuss at Conference ~f Mayors, incentives for police
officers for HUD owned housing, econo1 nic development. integrated
strategy, Harry and Linda Thomason's ir volvement in Clinton
administration. Republicans in Congress and their relationship with Newt
Gingrich. 1.1 2.49
43)
News 4 Texas At Five
KOFW-TV (fox) CH 4 Dallas
6/23197
1 3.02 Inner cities. R. At the US Confere nee of Mayors, President Clinton
is pushing for a proposal to give police c fficers a discount on hcuses
owned by HUD in the inner cities. 13.3~
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News 4 Texas At Ten
KDFW-TV (Fox) CH 4 Dallas
6/23/97
1 1 .20 Inner cities. President Clinton is proposing a plan to encourage
police officers and other to buy homes in inner cities. V; Governor's
meeting. 1 1.48
10:00·10:30 PM
451 News
. KRLD-AM (CBS! CH 1080 Dallas
6/23/97
4 1 3 • Mayor applauds Clinton Clinton tnnounced plan today at Mayors
4:00-7:00 PM
Convention. Encourage intercity home •>wnership. HUD will offer homes in
core city to police officers at 50% disc >unt. I; Mayor, says city is
ahead. City manager in partnership with Fannie Mae and others that
already have inner city housing in senti\/ e to city personnel and sworn
personnel.
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6. 53 · Recap: Clinton at Mayors Conv. HUD homes availabh: to police
officers at 50% discount.
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WWJ Newswatch
WWJ·AM CCBSJ CH 950 Detroit
6/2:1/97
00.00 CBS News Round Up > Presider t Clinton hosted world leade~ in
Denver. today he will talk about Urban -iome Program. This will be putting
police in Citied were they work with a !·0% reduction in hornes, a
reduction of the FHA mortgages. I; Cur Smoke Baltimore Mayor, says
anything that the President can do to h.•ve the people live and work in
the city.
4 7i
WWJ News watch
WWJ-AM (CBS! CH 950 Detroit
6/23/97
4:05 pm Conference of Mayors. Mayor Archer in San Franciscc for the
Conference of Mayors. Clinton outlined plan to bring new lif·~ into
America's big cities. Proposed giving ·pc lice officers to live in the
city. 1: Clinton, officers given discounts through HUO and the plan is
drawing praise from Archer. I; Dennis Archer. Dana Cameron reports live.
4:06pm
481
8:00-9:00 AM
4:00-5:00 PM
1 1 News at 5:00
WXIA·TV (NBCJ CH 11 Atlanta
'
6/23/97
33:05 Urban Homestead. Trying to con tince home buyers to stay in town
instead of going to the suburbs, by offe ·ing huge deals to police.
V;Atlanta police officers I;S. Charles. A lanta Police DepartmenT, it is
a fantastic deal & encourages officers p ·esence in the neighborhood; it
is good deal for everyone. V;police V;pc lice logo. V;exterior of homes.
V;police. I; Ralph McCann, Atlanta Police, I think it is a grear. idea.
I; Sgt. M.L. Hill, Atlanta Police departme 1t,l sincerely think. it w;)uld
reduce crime. V;home construction. GR Areas spotlighted for program.
V;police car. I;S. Charles, we all want tn own our own home. !;McCann,
can't refuse a deal like that. Bill Liss rep Jrting. 34:49 Ll; Davey
Gibson, HUD Southeast, it is a good deo~l & will put cops bac;k in the
neighborhood. GR; Urban Homestead Program (404)331·5001. ext. 2178
5:00-6:00 PM
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1 1 News Tonight
WXIA-TV (NBC! CH 11 Atlanta
S/2?./97
08:58 The Nation. TZ; GR;The Nation. > HUD tenants protesting Clinton
plans. V; protestors. 10:16
50) News 2 Houston at Noon
KPRC·TV (NBC) CH 2 Houston
S/23/97
07.27 Covering America. >President C inton is attending the U.S.
11:00-11:35 PM
12:00-12:30 PM
Conference of Mayors being held in Sar Francisco. V; Clinton. Clinton
will unveil a urban revitalization plan. Tl.e program will give .a discount
to police officers who move into homes owned by the Depa11ment of Housing
and Urban Development.
51 l live at Five
6/23/97
KTRK-TV (ABC) CH 13 Houston
12.02 Around the Nation. V; President ~linton addressed th·a noJtion's
mayors today. V; US Conference of Ma tors. San Francisco. He unveiled a
plan that encourages police officers to r 1ove into urban areas. M; HUD.
5:00-5:30 PM
52) Eyewitness News
KTRK-TV (ABC) CH 13 Houston
,
6/23/97
6:00-7:00 PM
53.14 TZ; Youth Program. A small groq) of teens and youn!J adults has
committed to helping its community wh le helping itself. V; Teens
participating in the Youth Build Houstor program, a program tailored by
the Houston Community College and fu 1ded by HUO. V; Youth Build Houston T
shirts. I; Kenneth Martin, Participant: Tl ey helped me get m·t life back
on track. I; Rose Marie Kinney, Particip< '1t: It has a!reaoy ch.lnged my
life. V; Ground breaking ceremony. Offi ·•als from HUD, HCC and Youth
Build. PC; Curdina Hill. Youthbuild HouHon: It's a real opportunity to
have our young people take leadership i, this community and creating
affordable housing at the same time the ( re trying to get their lives
together. I; David Martinez, Participant: This is going to help me a lot
in the future. 55.00
53l
PM Drive News
KUHF·FM (NPR) Freq. 88.7 Houston
6/23/97
3:55-5:35 PM
5 32 President Clinton wants to help Anerica·s cities by encouraging home
ownership cutting crime and improving ;chools. Speaking to the US
Conference of Mayor Clinton announce 1 plan that would give police
officers a 50 percent discount on gover 1ment owned homes.
54) Eight is News This Morning
WJW-TV (Fox) CH 8 Cleveland
6/24/97
1 1.07 Sack into city. The police are goi.1g to be gening big incentives
to move back into the city they protect. V; homes.!; one man cements. V;
Beacon Place housing. 11.55
5:30-6:00 AM
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Today In South Florida
WTVJ-tV (NBC) CH 6 Miami
6/2:~/97
5:30-6:00 AM
15.13 Clinton. President Clinton will bE in San Francisco at the
Conference of Mayors and he will unve 'I a plan to better race relations
in inner cities. He hopes to encourage ,.alice officers to live in inner
cities by offering them discounts on hones owned by HUD. V; The Clintons
getting off a plane. 15.35
56}
Today In South Florida
WTVJ-TV (NBC) CH 6 Miami
6/2:H97
11 .40 Clinton. President Clinton is in S 1n Francisco for the US
Conference of Mayors for a summit on domestic problems. He hopes to
encourage police officers to move into :nner cities by offering them
homes owned by HUD. V; The Clintons getting off Air ForcE! One. 12.00
571 Channel 6 News At 6:00
WTVJ-TV (NBC! CH 6 Miami
6/23/97
18.09 TZ: Police. The President annour ced the Urban Homf,stead Initiative
6:30-7:00 AM
6:00-6:30 PM
at the U.S Conference of Mayors. V; Clinton at the U.S. Conference of
Mayors. V; Police officers. 18.39
581
Today In South Florida
WTVJ-TV (NBCI CH 6 Miami
6/24./97
04.48 Police officers in cities. At the u:; Conference of Mayors in San
Francisco, President Clinton announced a plan to discount HUD homes for
police officers in inner cities. V; Clinton speaking, officers working.
5:30-6:00 AM
05.13
591
Today In South Florida
WTVJ-TV INBC) CH 6 Miami
6/24/97
06.14 Inner cities. At the US Conference of Mayors in San Francisco,
President Clinton announced a plan to c rter police officers low cost HUD
homes in inner cities. V; Clinton speakir g, officers working. 06.37
6:30·7:00 AM
601 Daybreak at 6:00
WTSP-TV ICBSl CH 10 Tampa/St. Pete.
6/24/97
6:00-7:00 AM
06 55 Award. National Award. A Natioroal Award was given to the city of
Tampa. The Department of Housing anc Urban Development has recognized
Tampa for its leadership in developing a fordable housing. 07.1 5
61)
Action News 4
WTAE-TV IABC) CH 4 Pittsburgh
6/23/97
41:55 HUD Housing Rally. residents waned to see Clinton. V; Rally. V;
East Library complex. I; Pennley Park Rf sident, landlord problems. S;
C!inton,makes announcement. LR; Wast ington DC. Marti Johnson
reporting .. 43:55
5:00-6:00 PM
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30 News
KDNL·TV (ABC! CH 30 St. Louis
6/2.3/97
07.09 Urban Fligh!. President Clinton c nnounced Urban Homestead
Initiatives. V; list of initiatives. Police can have up to 50% discount
on city homes, $200 break. on closing o:osts for those first timEl home
buyers in city and renters could receive Federal vouchers for working
families. 07.42
5:00·5:30 PM
631. Newschannef 5 At Noon
KSDK·TV (NBC) CH 5 St. Louis
6/2:3/97
00.47 TZ; lnnercity programs by Clinto1. > Clinton unveils new plans for
innercities at Mayors' Conf. in San Frar cisco. V; Clinton at conference.
> Reaction locally to plan. New progra ns are similar to some already in
St. Louis. I; Cornelia Fullard, project re! ident, nothing wronu with
staying in projects. Cops on the Block r·rogram helps police off:cers buy
homes in certain areas. 03.09
641
12:00-1:00 PM
Newschannel 5 At Five
KSDK-TV (NBC) CH 5 St. Louis
6/23/97
5:00-5:30 PM
05.30 Protestors. National Alliance of~ IUD Tenants say the VOJCher system
to help tenants buy homes does not do enough to make horne ownership
possible. V; Protestors in Washington, ).C. 05.54
651
2 News At Six
KTVI-TV CFoxl CH 2 St. Louis
612:l/97
11 .21 TZ; Urban revitalization. R; Presi lent Clinton unveils plan to
revitalize inner cities. Plan includes spe1 •al break for policemen to
purchase homes in inner cities. Another plan is urban home~:tead. PC;
Clinton. 1 3 13
6:00-6:30 PM
66) Channel Three Reports
KCRA·TV (NBC) CH 3 Sacramento
612:-1197
00.20 Presidential Visit. Report on the ! 'resident issuing a 7 point
iniative at the Council of Mayors in SF today, aimed at strengtheninG and
revitalizing urban centers in eluding a pl.m to offer low cost housing to
police officers that live in the neighborh Jods that they police•. S;
Clinton. I, Norm Rice, Seattle mayor. I; =lichard Riordan, LA mayor. I;
Lorraine Morton, Evanston mayor. Greg larsen i"eporting. AJ:cia Mafaby
reports on reactions from policemen on the policing plan. I; :3gt. Larry
Chavez, SPD. I; Chris Piazza, SPD I; Sc on Speights, SPO. 1,: Mayor
Serna. I; Patricia Ouplechan, Sac. Hous:,g & Development. <)6.23
5:00-5:30 PM
671 Action News 31
KPWB-TV (WB) CH 31 Sacramento
6123/97
03.17 Mayor Conference. With the Sun.mit of 8 behind him, President
Clinton is in San Francisco attending th•· Mayor's Conferenc.~. V; Mr. And
Mrs. Clinton. GR; Clinton's housing pro >osar. 03.54
1 1:30-12:00 PM
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News Ten at Noon
I<XTV-TV (ABC) CH 10 Sacramento
6/2:3/97
00 06 Mayor Conference. With the sur •mit of 8 now behind him, President
Clinton addressed the mayors in San F1ancisco this morning. V; Clinton
getting a standing ovation at the confe ence. The President proposed a
program of half off on HUD homes to t ring people back intcJ the inner
Cities. V;part of Clinton's speech. I; Me yor Joe Serna says it is very
exciting to have the President there. Cl nton is attending a funcraising
now and then goes on to Los Angeles , onight. Gloria Moraga reporting.
03.44
691
12:00·12:30 PM
Nine News
KUSA-TV (NBCI CH 9 Denver
6/23/97
12:00·12:30 PM
04.16 Clinton. President Clinton and Dr·nver Mayor Wellington Webb are
attending a Mayor's Conference in San Francisco. They left after the
Summit of the Eight ended. V; Bill and -iilary Clinton. The mayors will
talk about issues facing cities like a pro Josal to give police Clfficers a
50% discount on inner city homes which were owned by HUD. I; Mayor Sharpe
James, Newark, New Jersey, saying it s a commendable proposal to try a:1d
find ways to keep policemen in an urba 1 community. Clinton also plans to
offer breaks·to first-time home buyers. ;e wants a $200 brf!ak on closing
costs and to let working families who g ~t rental vouchers to use those
vouchers to purchase homes. 05.05
701
WBAL TV 1 1 New' at Five
WBAL·TV (NBC) CH 11 Baltimore
- 6/2:1/97
36.32 Tz; Protesting. HUD housing resi jents protesteC1 at tl'"re White House
today. V; Protesters. V; Public housing being demolished. I; Juanita
McKoy. There's thousands waiting for • ouchers. V; President Clinton. SB;
Clinton. This represents $700 million in down payments. Mc:trti Johnson
reporting. Gr; Urban homestead initiativ ~s. 39.25
71)
5:00-6:00 PM
NBC 7/39 News at 5
KNSD-TV (NBC! CH 39 San Diego
6/23/97
17.16 TZ; Clinton. The president propo ;ed a new program that will allow
police officers to buy homes for half pri :e if they live in the ¥eas
they patrol V; Clinton. 17.40
72)
5:00-5:30 PM
News 5 Today
WLWT-TV (NBC) CH 5 Cincinnati
6/23/97
5:30-7:00 AM
24. 10 TZ; Clinton and Summit of 8. He completed Summit c1f 8 and is in San
Francisco to unveil his urban homesteac at U.S. Conference of Mayors to
halt urban flight. He wants to give poliC: ~ officers a 50% discount on
homes owned by Department of Housin] and Urban Development. V; Clintons
arriving_ V; Clinton and leaders, Clinton on stage, flags. SB; Clinton
says we have great budget agreement, .ax cuts needed to b·~ for middle
class. 26.28
731 News Channel 6 This Morning
WTVR-TV (CBS} CH 6 Richmond
S/23/97
07.52 HUO award. Richmond won a Hl D award. R; 08.08.
6:00-7:00 AM
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6/23/97
74) News Channel 6 This Morning
WTVR-TV (CBS) CH 6 Richmond
02.36 HUD award. Richmond won
33.45 Recap/HUD award.
..
6;00-7:00 AM
6/23/97
7:00-8:00 AM
a H JD award. R; 02.53 .
.
75) Good Morning Central Illinois
WAND-TV (ABC) CH 17 Springfield IL
06/:~3/97
6:00-7:00 AM
44.48 Headlines 4 7.44 > Clinton is at rhe US Conference d Mayors with a
plan for urban renewal for the US Depa tment of Housing and Urban
Development.
76!
First News at 11 :30
WAND-TV (ABC) CH 17 Springfield IL
06/:~3/97
02.55 Clinton. Clinton is at the US Conference of Mayors tc• pitch his
plan for police officers and others to buy inner city houses at a
discount from the US Department of He using and Urban De•1elopment. V;
Clinton. 03.28
77)
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WAND News at Six
WAND-TV !ABC) CH 17 Springfield IL
06/~!3/97
6;00-6:30 PM
00.14 Housing. Decatur and Springfielc have new pl~ns for redeveloping
old neighborhoods. I; Robert Wright, acrivist, says you used to be able
to drink and have a fight and still be fri1 nds. They need more police. I;
Mark Gordon, Springfield Economic De1 elopment, says owners:,ip of homes
makes neighborhoods better. Kent Barr. tt Reporting. 01.59
7BJ
Channel 3 News This Morning
WCIA-TV (CBS) CH 3 Springfield ll
06/.i~3/97
6:00-7:00 AM
03.39 Housing. The US Department of -lousing and Urban C>evelopment gave
the City of Champaign an award. R; 03 58
...
43.37 Clinton. Clinton will address the JS Conference of M•1yors in San
Francisco to discuss a plan to sell US D ~partmern of Housin·;J and Urban
Development houses in the inner city tc police officers at a discount. He
said the Summit of the Eight was a sue :ess. V; Press conference with
leaders. GR; List of summit agenda iterr s. 43.53
79J
Channel 3 News This Morning
WCJA-TV (CBS! CH 3 Springfield IL
06/2.3/97
04.15 TZ; Housing. Clinton will addres~ the US Conference of Mayors in
San Francisco to discuss a plan to sell l !S Department of Housing and
Urban Development houses in the inner city to police officer;; at a
discount. A; 04.37
7:00-8:00 AM
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06/23/97
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04.38 Award. The US Department of H )USing and Urban De·velopment gave the
City of Champaign an award. R; 04.55
80)
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WICS·TV (NBC) CH 20 Springfield IL
06/23/97
07.48 Housing, The City of Champaign received an award from the US
Department of Housing and Urban Deve !opment. V; Public housing. 08.06
6:00·6:30 PM
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