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Ten O'Clock News (1987-10-29)
About this film
History of public housing in South Boston - always all white despite fact that current BHA waiting list is 80% minority families. West Broadway (D Street) and Mary Ellen McCormack projects. reporter: KellyHope Kelly reviews the history of public housing in Boston. Kelly notes that the first public housing project was built in South Boston in the 1930s. She adds that the tenants were all white. Kelly reports that the public housing projects in South Boston remained white even as the non-white tenant population grew in the rest of the city. Kelly's report includes shots of photographs of white and African American public housing tenants in the 1940s and 1960s. Kelly reviews statistics concerning the numbers of white and non-white families on the waiting list for public housing. Kelly reports that the waiting list for public housing in Boston is currently 80% non-white. She notes that the waiting list for white families is shrinking while the waiting list for non-white families is growing. Kelly reports that there are no African American families living in the housing projects in South Boston in 1987. Kelly reports that the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) went into receivership in 1979…
Directors & creators
WGBH
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Boston, South Boston, public housing, racial segregation, housing discrimination, West Broadway development, Mary Ellen McCormack projects, Ray Flynn, Hope Kelly, Boston Housing Authority, urban planning, racial integration, BHA receivership
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