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WESTMINSTER - WILLARD PLACE

Description: POSSIBLE SALE OF WESTMINSTER - WILLARD PLACE SUBSIDIZED HOUSING IN ROXBURY. BUCKMINSTER IN KENMORE SQUARE.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/09/1986

WORKFARE

Description: An African American mother and her children are at home in their apartment in the Columbia Point Housing Project in Dorchester. The children eat a meal in the kitchen while their mother washes dishes in the sink. Three girls watch television in a bedroom. Another girl tidies up a bedroom in the apartment. Shots of members of the family leaving the apartment building. African American children play in the courtyard of the apartment building.
1:00:00: Visual: An African American mother and her children are in the kitchen of their apartment in the Columbia Point Housing Project in Dorchester. The mother works at the sink. Her children are eating a meal at the table. Music plays in the background. One of the boys at the table picks at the meat on his plate. The mother continues to wash the dishes. Some of the children are finished with their meal and stand around the kitchen. Three of the children eat their meals at the table. Shot of an adolescent girl eating her meal at the table. A teenage girl checks on food in the oven. The mother continues to wash the dishes. Shot of the food on a plate on the table. The children and the mother talk amongst themselves. Shot of a young girl seated at the table, picking meat off of a bone. Shot of the mother's hands washing dishes. Shot of two young boys who are sharing a seat at the table. 1:05:06: V: The mother clears the table as the children leave the kitchen. A young African American man stands in the kitchen with the mother. 1:05:21: V: Three girls sit on a bed in a bedroom, watching Three's Company on television. Shots of the television; of a teenage girl watching television; of a young girl sitting on the bed. 1:07:23: V: A teenage girl plays a song by Michael Jackson on the stereo in another bedroom. She tidies up the bedroom while listening to the music. Shots of the stereo, photos, and a greeting card on top of the dresser. 1:11:02: V: The crew sets up a shot of the young man and the children exiting the apartment building. The young man holds the hand of one of the young children. Shot of the exterior of the apartment building. African American children play in the courtyard of the building. The children jump rope. Shot of the other buildings in the housing project. Children play in courtyards of the buildings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/24/1983

Wynegar on end of receivership

Description: South Boston High School headmaster Jerome Wynegar interviewed on end of federal receivership of his school. Calmly says he seldom encounters overt hostility. He expects no substantial change in programs and attitudes now that jurisdictional control has reverted to the city. Exteriors of South Boston Highs School, and shots of Wynegar outside the school. Several takes of the reporter standup. A very bitter and angry Robert Lunnin, member of the South Boston Marshals and the South Boston Information Center, interrupts reporter standup. Lunnin says Wynegar lies, exaggerates attendance; that resistance to forced busing comes from both students and parents; that desegregation will never work “especially with the housing situation” (referring to effort to integrate blacks into public housing). He vehemently pronounces “forced busing.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/30/1978

Yonkers housing delegation

Description: Deborah Wang reports that a delegation of forty residents from Yonkers, New York, visited Boston to learn about the city's approach to public housing. The delegation toured Boston's model housing projects, which contain a mix of low-, middle- and upper-income units. Wang reports that the city of Yonkers is divided over the issue of mixed-income public housing and affordable housing. She reviews the public housing situation in Yonkers. Wang's report includes footage of the city of Yonkers and footage of the Yonkers delegation discussing housing at a meeting with Amy Anthony (Secretary of Communities and Development for the City of Boston). Charles Cola (Yonkers City Council), Anthony DiPopallo and JoAnne Gardner (Yonkers resident) talk about public housing in Yonkers and in Boston. Boston Mayor Ray Flynn addressed the delegation about Boston's efforts to provide affordable housing for city residents. Members of the delegation, including Peter Chema and Mel Ellen, talk about their impressions of the visit.
1:00:08: Visual: Footage of Yonkers residents exiting a bus in a Boston neighborhood. Deborah Wang reports that a delegation of forty residents from Yonkers, NY, arrived in Boston to see how Boston has solved its public housing dilemma. V: Footage of Yonkers from "We the People." Shots of a school bus traveling on a street in Yonkers; of a residential street in Yonkers; of housing projects in Yonkers. Wang reports that the city of Yonkers has agreed to build 800 units of affordable housing in the city's predominantly white East End; that the city's affordable housing had all been built in the less affluent West End. Wang reports that the city of Yonkers is divided over the issue of affordable housing. V: Footage of Charles Cola (Yonkers City Council) saying that he wanted to see how public housing works in Boston; that he hopes to accomplish the same thing in Yonkers. Footage of Anthony DiPopallo (Yonkers resident) talking about the integration of public housing in Yonkers. Footage of JoAnne Gardner (Yonkers resident) saying that the city of Yonkers needs to need to build affordable housing according to the wishes of neighborhood residents. Gardner says that she does not want to be bused across town to live. Amy Anthony (Secretary of Communities and Development) responds to Gardner. Anthony says that the Yonkers residents need to look at what was done in Boston and then apply it to their own neighborhoods. Wang reports that delegation from Yonkers toured the city of Boston's model housing projects; that the housing projects contain a mix of low-income, middle-income and upper-income units. Wang reports that the city of Boston has been ordered to build 800 units of mixed-income housing; that the city of Boston has been building mixed-income housing for years. V: Shots of construction site; of the exterior of a housing development in Mission Hill. Wang reports that the city helped to build 165 units of mixed-income housing in Mission Hill; that half of the units will go to low- and moderate-income residents. V: Footage of Ray Flynn (Mayor of Boston) addressing the delegation from Yonkers. Flynn talks about one of the housing developments. Flynn talks about the efforts of the city and the community to turn a vacant lot into a housing development. Shots of the delegation from Yonkers as they tour a housing development. Wang reports that the politicians in the Yonkers delegation were impressed. V: Shot of Flynn speaking to members of the delegation. Footage of Peter Chema (Yonkers City Council) saying that it is helpful to see successful mixed-income housing developments. Chema says that the visit to Boston has allayed some of the fears of opponents of mixed-income units in Yonkers. Footage of Mel Ellen (Yonkers resident), DiPopallo and other members of the delegation standing near their bus. Ellen says that a Boston housing development would be a "slum" in East Yonkers. Footage of Ellen talking to a reporter. Ellen says that the government is using Yonkers to experiment with new forms of public housing; that the residents of Yonkers have no recourse if the "experiment" does not work. Footage of Anthony saying that the Boston tour has given the Yonkers delegation an idea of what is possible. Shot of a drawing of a drawing of an urban cityscape.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/23/1988