University of Virginia Library

Letters To The Editor

Teaching Task Force

The University over the past
year or so has received HEW
money for restoration of the
Rotunda and a gift of prime
residential land it just received.

It is an understatement that
there is a housing shortage in
the Charlottesville -Albemarle
area affecting for the most part
citizens of the lower income
bracket who work in classified
jobs at the University.

At the University there is a
School of Architecture, a
Department of Civil
Engineering, a School of
Business Administration, a
Department of Economics,
Sociology, and Psychology,
teaching the ability to solve
problems and create a better
society.

It is my proposal that the
University create an
interdisciplinary task force for
teachers and students using
resources and expertise of the
University to create a model
community to solve the
housing problems existent in
our community.

It is traditional to set up lab
schools in education to teach
and learn about
education–could not there be a
lab-community to teach and
learn about construction
design, economics, sociology of
providing houses for the people
of this community.