GOVDOC A 13^1 3 9999 06583 537 337& m iPiiBuc i NEVJ OPENINGS IN BOSTON A Demonstration of Major Change In Three Urban Neighborhoods (Preliminary Draft) .J.M ^. H'(l^ New Openings in Boston A Demonstration of Major Change in Three Urban Neighborhoods PRELIMINARY DRAFT For Staff Review ^S^« s/:^^^ TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Section One A Summary Statement 1 Section Two The Program 8 Housing and Related Programs 8 Full Employment 16 Education 23 Health 29 Public Housekeeping and Public Safety 33 Public Facilities 39 Recreation and the Arts 45-a Community Services 50 Project Operation 58 Section Three The Principles of Operation 62 Section Four How Planning and Programming are Achieved 67 Section Five The Planning Period 73 Section Six First Preliminary Tentative Schedule 75 Section Seven Legal Considerations 78 Section Eight Estimated Flow of Federal Grants and Local Matching Contributions 79 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Public Library http://www.archive.org/details/newopeningsinbosOObost New Openings in Boston A Demonstration of Major Change in Three Urban Neighborhoods Section I A Suinmarv Statement The Proposal It is proposed that the South End, Roxbury-North Dorchester/ and Columbia Point portions of Boston become a Demonstration Cities Project. This area of Boston contains; 16% of its population - 98,000 people 9% of its land area - 2800 acres 45% of its 1960 substandard housing - 22,000 dwellings 75-80% of its non-white population - 60,000 people. The Objectives The project's objectives are: An attractive, secure, and comfortable physical . environment. An integrated and fully employed population. . A stable social structure. . Boston has undertaken one of the largest urban renewal programs in the country. The Demonstration Project will be the means for guiding major areas of the city through renewal in a way that has never been done as completely before. It will provide housing where needed at all necessary rents and prices; it will demonstrate new and improved ways of rehabilitating whole neighborhoods at one time; it will demonstrate improvements in the educational, recreational and municipal housekeeping systems that will attract people to the city; it will provide a comprehensive job development and placement program; and it will be a vehicle for helping neighborhoods effect their own continuing mechanisms for change. The Main Forces The Demonstration Area's physical environment will be changed? Through urban renewal processes . - In the proposed area there are two renewal projects in execution, and one soon to be in Survey and Plan- ning, The three projects will encompass over 50% of the population. Through code enforcement actions . - One section of the area, containing 5% of the popu- lation, will be incorporated into the city's concentrated code enforcement program under S. 117 of the 1965 Housing Act, - 2 -