THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Housing Costs
Up in Israel,
Official Angry
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Patriarch Jacob had to
toil for seven years to get a
wife. An average wage-
earner in Israel must work
seven years to afford to pur-
chase an apartment, a
senior official of the gov-
ernment housing company
told the Knesset's Economic
Committee.
According to Itamar
--, lem, this situation stems
a a lack of foresight by
government during the
years 1975-77. He said
there were far too few hous-
ing starts in those years and
urged the government to
speed up the construction of
housing for young couples
and the needy. Another offi-
cial charged that the gov-
ernment bureaucracy was
directly responsible for the
fact that the cost of a flat for
a young couple increases by
IL 60,000 ($3,000) every six
months.
The MKs were warned
that the widening gap be-
tween the price of hous-
ing and what young
couples can afford could
lead to a revival of the
Black Panther move-
ment. The Black Panth-
ers, mainly Jerusalem
slum dwellers, launched
anti-government demon-
strations in 1971 when
the cost of housing rose at
a similar rate.
Housing Minister Gideon
Platt told the committee
that his ministry is cur-
rently building about 3,000
new units that will be
leased to young couples for
five years at low rent with
the option to purchase.
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Housing Needs
for Aged Probed
LOS ANGELES (JTA) —
A Jewish Federation-
Council committee is inves-
tigating the situation of an
estimated 5,000 fixed in-
come elderly residents of
the western area of Los
Angeles County who need
low-cost housing.
Dr. Fred Burns, chairman
of the JF-C western area
council ad hoc committee on
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need for low-cost housing in
the western area, particu-
larly in Santa Monica, Ven-
ice and Mar Vista, was
reaching the "crisis level."
He said existing senior
adult housing sites have
waiting lists of as many as
2,250 people.
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