GOV 310L Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nuclear Waste Policy Act, Apollo Program, Nimby
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To carry out, put into effect, or enforce. Very often, implementation fails; i. e. war on drugs. In us, it"s hard because the system is so complex; system was designed to be hard to use. Policies frequently fail to be implemented; lots of money wasted. Federal program to build low cost housing for poor. Hud would survey various federal lands across cities, declare land surplus, then land would be eligible to grants and loans to developers, then developers would build low cost housing for poor. Hud declared land around ft. sam houston a surplus. Program failed because of opposition from local politicans. Hud would develop it under the program. Poor people around were almost all black. Middle class around the fort didn"t want the poor in their neighborhood. Program failed; opposition wasn"t racial, but class. People opposed because the gov"t was going to build poor low cost housing along the oceanfront and it would obstruct the people"s view.
