Description: BACK BAY AND SOUTH END REALTORS, CONDOS, APARTMENTS, SUNNY, BROWNSTONES, CONSTRUCTION. FOR SALE and FOR RENT SIGNS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/18/1982
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: Bedford's budget is in the black, but the town is in a real estate slump. Millipore, Mitre, Digital, Prime high tech signs. For sale signs on ranch houses. Town Hall, church bells, steeple. Entering Bedford sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/02/1990
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
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
Description: Retrospective of fifty years of the Boston Housing Authority, the largest landlord in the city, and one of the largest such agencies in the country. 50th anniversary ball at Park Plaza Hotel; guests include Doris Bunte, Edward Brooke, Byron Rushing, Michael Dukakis, Mel King, Ray Flynn, Bruce Bolling, William Bulger, Harry Spence. Interviews on BHA history include Lewis Weinstein, Joseph Slavet, Paul Garrity, Peter Dreier. Scenes of squalor inside housing projects. Many families remain residents for generations. Tenants' class action suit led by Armando Perez. On the need for racial integration, Doris Bunte says “separate always means separate and unequal.” Scenes of the city's subsidized developments in varying degrees of neglect or renovation. Examples of the breadth and density of the projects. Archival film and stills. Compiled from five-part series from 11/1986. ,Harris
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/01/1987
Description: Tenants sue BHA for better housing conditions. Kevin White vs BHA. Judge Paul Garrity. Harry Spence.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/12/1986
Description: Boston Housing Court. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1982
Description: Day in the life of Boston Housing Court, Judge Paul Garrity presiding. Actual disputes between tenants and landlords, contractors, code inspectors. Explanation of legal terminology in each case.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/06/1973