Gilding the Ghetto 1 January 10, 2018 894 × 1034 Gilding the Ghetto: Poverty and Poverty Programmes in the 60s and 70s A handful of home secretaries: top left, James Callaghan; right, Robert Carr; bottom left, Roy Jenkins; right, Merlyn Rees. The Home Office led the field in urban deprivation but it was a series of official reports that triggered off the activity: