seaver-Townsend urban renewal area: a section of the Roxbury-North Dorchester general neighborhood renewal plan area: an analysis of the economic, financial and community factors that will influence the feasibility of residential renewal.
Published: 1962
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
Subjects: Political participation -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury.; Jews -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury.; African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury.; Real property -- Boton -- Massachusetts -- Roxbury.; Urban renewal -- Massachusetts -- Roxbury (Boston); Seaver Townsend, Boston (Mass.) -- Economic conditions.; Social service -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury.; Urban renewal -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury.; Boston (Mass.) -- Economic conditions -- Roxbury.; Roxbury (Boston, Mass.); Boston (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- Roxbury.
Description: ...report prepared for the Boston Redevelopment Authority studies the feasibility of undertaking urban renewal of the Seaver-Townsend area of Boston's Roxbury-North Dorchester General Neighborhood Renewal Area (GNRP); describes and presents socioeconomic data influencing the area: age composition of the population, marital status, occupational composition, characteristics of households, household income and rent expenditures, characteristics of housing units, group relations, the Jewish population, the Negro groups and channels of communication; discusses the financial feasibility of rehabilitation (the condition of properties, costs of rehabilitation, new mortgage-value ratio, changes in debt service, financial feasibility of rehabilitation, feasibility of including additional improvements, attitude of lending institutions and conclusion-prospects for rehabilitation); includes actual case studies of individual persons living in the area; appendix provides data on residential real estate price trends and ratio of market price to assessed value; copies of this item were in the BRA collection...