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 [South Boston residents talk about housing integration] Original Airdate: 6/16/1988 Length: 00:03:04 Item Type: newstape - edited story master Go to full description for this item. Description : Abstract Meg Vaillancourt reports that South Boston residents are opposed to the city's plans to integrate public housing projects. Vaillancourt notes that residents were hostile to Ray Flynn (Mayor of Boston) when he attended a community meeting in South Boston to discuss plans for integration. Vaillancourt's report includes footage of Flynn and Doris Bunte (Boston Housing Authority) at the community meeting. The audience jeers at Flynn. Vaillancourt notes that South Boston residents have not changed their attitudes in the face of evidence that the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) practices discrimination against African American tenants of public housing. Vaillancourt interviews South Boston public housing residents about public housing integration. Many residents are opposed to integration. Some fear that the quality of life in the projects will decline after the housing projects are integrated. Others say that racial violence will be a result of integration. A few residents are not bothered by the prospect of integration. Vaillancourt notes that the controversy over public housing integration evokes memories of the busing crisis in the 1970s. Vaillancourt's report is accompanied by footage of white tenants of South Boston housing projects. Contributor : Reporter Meg Vaillancourt
Subject : Keywords Discrimination Public housing - Integration Subject : Personal Names Bunte, Doris Flynn, Raymond Vaillancourt, Meg Subject : Corporate Names (Organization names) Boston Housing Authority (BHA) Subject : Geographic Locations South Boston (Boston, Mass.) Type : Genre News - Television |
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