Slum Dweller's Guide to Capitol Hill

Excerpts from a lecture delivered by Associate Professor Joseph L. Sax for the Mott Adult Education Program of the Flint, Michigan, Board of Education, on November 2, 1967 Talk is cheap under the dome of the nation's Capitol, and hardly a week goes by without a report on some "new and imaginative" scheme for dealing with the problem of slum housing. Each is dutifully reported in the press, usually under dramatic and prominent headlines; indeed, if headlines were houses, there wouldn't be a slum left to dwell in.