EVICTION

Description: SOUTH END STREET ENVIRONS AT NIGHT, TOWNHOUSE, 'NO EVICTION' SIGN IN WINDOW, CANDLE VIGIL, CHRISTMAS CAROLERS

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Date Created: 12/16/1982

EVICTION

Description: INTERVIEW WITH HISPANIC TENANT EVICTED WITHOUT CAUSE FROM TOWNHOUSE, MOVING OUT, CARTONS

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Date Created: 12/16/1982

Ed Logue on walking tour

Description: Former Boston Redevelopment Authority director Ed Logue tours and comments on development downtown and in Charlestown and Cambridge. He talks about housing prices, the vitality of different neighborhoods, and urban design. He decries prominent glass towers as insensitive to surrounding historical buildings. International Place, Exchange Place, Rowes Wharf, waterfront, Athenaeum. Audio goes out at the very end.

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Date Created: 12/26/1986

Elliot Richardson at ABCD

Description: Elliot Richardson takes questions at ABCD seminar on alleviating poverty. Touches on welfare, Social Security, housing subsidies, Medicare, unemployment benefits. Robert Coard, ABCD executive director.

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Date Created: 05/21/1984

Elma Lewis on Roxbury improvement

Description: Meg Vaillancourt interviews Elma Lewis (Roxbury community leader) about the Roxbury neighborhood. Lewis says that Roxbury is portrayed as "unworthy" by the news media. Lewis criticizes media coverage, housing policy, and police performance in Roxbury. Lewis talks about the need for a community to set its own standards, saying that she complains about certain types of behavior on her block. Lewis says that she will not be driven from her home by the problems in the neighborhood. She talks about her obligation to work for improvements in the community. Vaillancourt's report is accompanied by footage of residents and police in the Roxbury area and a shot of a photograph of Darlene Tiffany Moore (Roxbury resident). This edition of the Ten O'Clock News also included the following items: Teachers and parents are frustrated over new starting times for the Boston Public Schools for the coming school year Boston parents frustrated with Wilson and School Committee Charles Laquidara organizes a boycott against Shell Oil Company
1:00:21: Visual: Footage of Elma Lewis (Roxbury community leader) being interviewed by Meg Vaillancourt. Lewis says that the media portray Roxbury as "unworthy." Shot of a Boston Herald newspaper article with a photo of eleven -year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore (Roxbury resident). Vaillancourt reports that Lewis lives on the same block as Moore; that Moore was killed by a stray bullet in Roxbury last weekend. Vaillancourt reports that Lewis says that Roxbury is a better community than is portrayed in the media. V: Shots of stately houses on Homestead Street in Roxbury; of a camera man filming a man in a business suit on a street. Vaillancourt reports that drug dealers are not common in Roxbury. V: Shot of an African American woman pulling weeds from a crack in a sidewalk. A boy on a bicycle is with her. Shots of two white police officers patrolling a residential street in Roxbury. Shot of multi-family houses on a residential street in Roxbury. Vaillancourt reports that Lewis says that federal housing requirements create crowded and hostile conditions in Roxbury residences. V: Shots of houses in a new development in Roxbury. Footage of Lewis saying that section eight of the federal housing policy was designed to disseminate people over a large area; that the result of section eight has been new housing projects. Vaillancourt notes that Lewis has criticized the performance of the Boston Police Department in Roxbury. V: Shots of a police cruiser traveling down a Roxbury street; of a small group of African American kids on a street corner. Footage of Lewis saying that every child in Roxbury knows where the drugs are; that the police need to be reminded constantly of where the drugs are. Vaillancourt reports that Lewis is tough on her own community. V: Footage of Lewis saying that residents need to refuse to allow certain kinds of activity on their block. Lewis says that she will harass city authorities and those responsible for the activity until the behavior stops. Shots of African American women and children crossing a Roxbury street; of a police cruiser traveling down a residential street. Shots of people doing yard work outside of a new development of houses in Roxbury. Footage of Lewis saying that a community needs to set its own standards; that residents need to stop bad behavior before it gets out of control. Vaillancourt says that Lewis is optimistic about the people who live in Roxbury. V: Shot of African American children playing in front of a building in Roxbury. Footage of Lewis saying that she will not be driven from her home; that she will not get up and move every twenty years while others relax comfortably in the suburbs. Lewis says that she has an obligation to stay in the community and work for improvements.

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Date Created: 08/23/1988

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

Expiration of HUD mortgages

Description: Tenants of Brandywyne Village in East Boston and affordable housing advocates are concerned about continuation of reasonable rents upon expiration of HUD subsidized mortgages.

Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Date Created: 07/10/1990