Description: Marie Watson volunteers at Y family shelter. She teaches homeless mothers and children to knit and crochet. They learn patience, productivity and self- worth.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1989
Description: Former missile site in Topsfield becomes shelter as result of McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, enabling conversion of federal properties. Gov. Weld inaugurates shelter at ribbon cutting ceremony.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/14/1991
Description: Mission Church in Roxbury holds service to heal Mission Hill community after false accusations in Stuart murder case. Ray Flynn.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1990
Description: Exteriors of Mission Hill housing project. Trash strewn about. African American children playing in the parking lot and playing basketball. Steve Curwood interviews with residents including Betty Galloway, Dorothy Johnson, and a woman who doesn't want to give her name. They speak about the strike by BHA maintenance workers, and the past and current condition in the public housing, especially the amount of trash piling up. Accumulated rubbish in a vacant apartment and the chutes to the incinerators. Several takes of reporter standup. Exteriors of Exchange Building (53 State Street). Pedestrians.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/01/1977
Description: Interview with Boston city councilor Ray Flynn about affordable, safe and decent housing. In front of Mission Hill housing project on Smith Street. Interior of apartment renovated by tenant. Interview with Alan Root of Tenants Policy Council on how to use public funds and sweat equity to optimize rehabilitation effort. Looks for improved racial climate through integrating the several cultures and languages predominant in public housing. Calls for better security and lighting so residents can be comfortable in and around their homes. Is dismayed that public housing has been excluded from CDBG entitlements.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/23/1980
Description: Mission Hill public housing project. Seven-story brick buildings. Children walking through public housing courtyard.Ride through South End passing Columbus Avenue brownstones. Harbor Towers twin high rises; tilt up, sign says “forty floors of luxury living.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/26/1977
Description: The day after Mitch Snyder's death, Pine Street Inn director Richard Ring talks about Snyder's advocacy on behalf of homeless people. File of homeless.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1990
Description: Mitchell Rabkin, president of Beth Israel Hospital, objects to cost containment provision in proposal to extend health coverage to uninsured.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/03/1987
Description: Mixed reviews for Ray Flynn's 1986 performance from city councillors and others.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/06/1987
Description: Rep. Joseph Moakley reports on his task force investigation of murder of Jesuit priests in El Salvador, and wants to cut aid. Donald Monan, president of Boston College.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/30/1990