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Abandoned housing in Dorchester

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

Boston Community Loan Fund

Description: Boston Community Loan Fund encourages socially responsible investing, such as in affordable housing. They enabled construction of apartment complex for homeless women in Dorchester.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/21/1990

Dorchester Terrace

Description: Habitat for Humanity homebuilders, a Christian housing ministry, celebrate completion and occupancy of Dorchester Terrace modular apartments.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/02/1988

Dorchester affordable housing

Description: Dorchester rooming house will provide 12 units of affordable housing to residents of Shattuck Shelter. Boarding house, lodging, SRO, single room occupancy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/16/1989

Dorchester crack house

Description: City inspectors visit trashed apartments in Dorchester building commandeered by crack dealers. Tenants show decrepit conditions.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/17/1990

Dorchester housing

Description: Dorchester residential environs. Brick house, large Victorians in a row, triple deckers with chain link fences, colonials, multifamily and single family houses on several streets without people or traffic. Seized house with sign "Building secured by tax and rent payers of Boston. No trespassing."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/25/1978

Energy audit

Description: Putty-like rope caulk, tube of caulking, fiberglass batting insulation. BostonGas bills. Interview with homeowners in Dorchester about why they are having an energy audit. Inspector shows form to note data about heating system, structure, and energy saving improvements. Honeywell thermostat. Printout of recommendations. House exterior. Weatherization.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1979

FRANKLIN PARK

Description: MISMANAGEMENT AND DECREPIT CONDITIONS AT FRANKLIN PARK DEVELOPMENT. HOMESTEAD STREET. GRDC. COCKROACH.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/07/1986

Grove Hall environs

Description: Grove Hall Dorchester environs. Blue Hill Avenue storefronts. Regal Foods, liquor store, photography studio, Grove Hall Savings Bank. Interview with Emanuel Horne, director of business development office of the Boston Plan, focusing on commercial revitalization of Dudley Station and Grove Hall. Talks about long-term aftermath of 1967 riots: area continues to suffer from lack of investment and entrepreneurial expertise. Cites need for bakeries and supermarket. He is hopeful for housing renewal to accommodate immigrants. Looks for ethnic diversification in consumer habits.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/27/1980

Melville Avenue, Dorchester

Description: Interior architectural details and decor of Victorian house on Melville Avenue in Dorchester. Interview with homeowner Marlene Knight about why her family moved from suburbs to that neighborhood. Interview with Arthur Glass about why he bought house there. Both seek racially mixed area and affordability in the city.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1976