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Cushing N. Dolbeare Dies at 78; Lifelong Fair Housing Crusader
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The Washington Post
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March 19, 2005| Author:
Matt Schudel
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Cushing N. Dolbeare, 78, who spent more than half a century as an
advocate for low-income Americans priced out of the nation's housing
market, died March 17 of cancer at her home in Mitchellville.
After the Nixon administration's temporary suspension of all
programs for low-income housing in 1973, Ms. Dolbeare formed a
national organization to spotlight that need. She assembled a
coalition of labor, civil rights, religious and social groups to
create the National Low Income Housing Coa...
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