Description: KEVIN WHITE AT GRAND OPENING OF 150 HUNTINGTON AVENUE LUXURY APARTMENTS, VIOLINISTS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1983
Description: Housing activists go to Massachusetts House Ways and Means Chairman Thomas Finneran's office to 'evict' him because of his budget proposal. The protesters are arrested. Human service advocates and religious leaders also hold separate protests. The house is debating local aid and tax increases. Rep. Thomas Finneran talks about his budget in the House Chambers. Interviews with Reps. John McDonough and Stanley Rosenberg suggesting new taxes are needed to support services.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1991
Description: David Boeri reports on a demonstration by members of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), outside of the offices of Mayor Ray Flynn. Demonstrators advocate for more affordable housing in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan. Footage of Peggy Jackson (ACORN demonstrator) and Neil Sullivan (Director of housing policy for the Flynn administration) debating the administration's affordable housing policy. Boeri notes that the demonstrators demanded the deed to a vacant lot in order to develop affordable housing themselves.
1:00:03: Visual: Shot of a multi-colored, hand-drawn sign reading, "Welcome to the mayor's office." A group of demonstrators stand outside of the mayor's office chanting, "Mayor Flynn, come on out." One of the demonstrators holds a sign reading, "ACORN: Housing Now." The demonstrators are affiliated with ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). V: Shot of an office telephone; of the demonstrators. Shot of a sign reading, "Shelter is our need. Give us the deed." David Boeri reports that Ray Flynn (Mayor of Boston) refused to meet with the demonstrators; that the demonstrators are fighting for affordable housing in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan. V: Footage of Peggy Jackson (ACORN demonstrator) saying that her organization can build affordable housing if they are given one lot to build on. Boeri reports that the demonstrators say that the housing that the city calls "affordable" is not affordable for Roxbury residents; that the median income in Roxbury is $13,000. V: Footage of Jackson talking to Neil Sullivan (Director of housing policy for Flynn). Jackson says that fewer than 500 units of the city's affordable housing are affordable for Roxbury residents. Sullivan says that fewer than 500 housing units were built by the White administration between 1981 and 1983. Boeri reports that Sullivan blames the housing crisis on Kevin White (former Mayor of Boston) and a lack of federal money. Boeri reports that the Flynn adminstration is bundling low-income units with high-income units; that the Flynn administration is using the high-income units to subsidize the low-income units. V: Shots of Jackson; of the demonstrators. Footage of Sullivan saying that the Flynn administration has built over 500 low-income and moderate-income units in the first 6 months of 1986. The demonstrators respond that they cannot afford these units. Boeri reports that the demonstrators will have to incorporate themselves as non-profit developers before they can bid on a vacant lot. V: Footage of Sullivan telling the demonstrators that other groups have incorporated themselves and are bidding on land. Jackson tells Sullivan that the demonstrators do not have time to incorporate themselves; that another 3,000 people will be homeless before they are able to complete the legal paperwork. Shot of Sullivan. Boeri reports that the ACORN demonstrators ended up walking out; that the demonstrators say that they will take over the land next week. V: Footage of the demonstrators leaving the mayor's office.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1986
Description: RAY FLYNN PC ON NEW INITIATIVES IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN BOSTON. Inclusionary zoning. Neil Sullivan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/17/1986
Description: Low-income citizens visit State House to demand affordable housing. Sen. Patricia McGovern.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/15/1986
Description: Interview with artist about living and working in his loft in leather district, Boston. Studio interior, open paint cans, brushes, finished painting on white wall. Kitchen and sleeping space adjacent to gallery. Large warehouse windows exuding natural light. Interview with Liz Dworkin about need for artists' housing and dispute with BRA and developers over zoning and rents. Exteriors on South Street: Keeler Leather Co., Barney's Uniform, Proctor Ellison Co., Seamon Steen Co., Berman Leather, Cornhill Magazine & Book Co., Siegel Leather, building facades.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/29/1976
Description: Boston artists suffer lack of affordable studio space. Although their presence enhances city's image, they are often forced to leave by this housing problem (eviction by developers).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1988
Description: SHORTAGE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND ROOMING HOUSES. BUCKMINSTER IN KENMORE SQUARE. Boarders.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/10/1986
Description: Interview with June Howe of Back of the Hill Community Development Association (BOTHCDA) about Mission Hill neighborhood development and revitalization. Calls it “the country in the city.” Memorandum of Agreement to buy vacant land from Lahey Clinic to build owner occupied mixed income family housing, elderly and handicapped housing, and/or subsidized rental housing. Environs of undeveloped parcel of interest. Ellingwood Street site. New England Baptist Hospital on Parker Hill Avenue in background. Tilt down to abandoned lot with construction materials left behind. Brief view of Harvard Medical Area Power Plant.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1979
Description: Boston City Council meeting. Louise Day Hicks, Chistopher Iannella, Ray Flynn, Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, Lawrence DiCara, Rosemarie Sansone. O'Neil kisses Hicks on her last day on council. Tributes paid to Hicks. Fred Langone smokes cigar. DiCara questions Boston corporation counsel Joseph Alviani on rent control ordinance, vacancy decontrol, condominium conversion.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/26/1979