Description: Interviews with Dorchester residents on Dorchester Fair Share's effort to get HUD or city of Boston to sell vacant properties to people who would rehabilitate them and pay taxes. B-roll of abandoned house on Bowdoin Street, Dorchester. Trashed interior. Other houses with boarded up windows.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/19/1976
Description: Ornate and intricate architectural details of Victorian house on Melville Avenue in Dorchester. Interior and exterior. Dorchester environs. Ornately furnished rooms, stained glass windows, carved woodwork, chandelier, grand fireplace. People's conversation about the neighborhood and property values overheard in the background. Shot of the Channel 2 news van through the stained glass front door. Several takes of reporter standup on the property values of the Melville Avenue area of Dorchester.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1976