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Ten O'Clock News (1977-07-21)
About this film
Building which houses the offices of the Boston Housing Authority in Charlestown. Rundown buildings in the Bunker Hill Housing Project in Charlestown. Many of the buildings have boarded up windows or broken windows. Trash is visible along the sidewalks and walkways in front of the buildings. Shots of a series of photographs of a meeting between Joseph Timilty and Jimmy Carter. Interview with John Vitagliano (Boston Housing Inspection Commissioner). He says that the city of Boston must renovate its existing public housing instead of building new public housing. Vitagliano believes that a program of private-housing subsidies would be superior to the present public housing program. He says that the disastrous environment in public housing developments contributes to a cycle of poverty; that public-housing tenants and private landlords would benefit from a private-housing subsidies program. Vitagliano suggests that public-housing projects be shut down and sold to private developers. He admits that Boston's public housing projects are de facto segregated.
Directors & creators
WGBH
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Ten O'Clock News, WGBH, John Vitagliano, Joseph Timilty, Jimmy Carter, Boston Housing Authority, Bunker Hill Housing Project, Charlestown, Boston, public housing, urban renewal, housing policy, poverty cycle, residential segregation, housing subsidies, rent control
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