Task force report on a preliminary exploration of social conditions and needs in the Roxbury-North Dorchester gnrp.
Published: 1961
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: General Neighborhood Renewal Plan (GNRP) -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- North.; General Neighborhood Renewal Plan (GNRP) -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury -; Human services -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- North Dorchester -- Planning.; Human services -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury -- Planning.; North Dorchester, Boston (Mass.) -- Social Services -- Planning.; Planning -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- North Dorchester -- Social services.; Planning -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury -- Social services.; Social service -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- North Dorchester -- Planning.; Social service -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury -- Planning.; Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) -- Social services -- Planning.; Boston (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- North Dorchester.; Boston (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- Roxbury.
Description: ...report of a consultant (Whitney M. Young, Jr.) hired by the Boston Community Development Program (BCDP) to begin the planning of social services needed in Boston's Roxbury-North Dorechester General Neighborhood Renewal Plan (GNRP) district; presents statistics on racial composition, housing characteristics, infant mortality, tuberculosis case rate, percent of persons age 65 and over and percent aged 7 to 16 years for the following: Dudley Street East, Dudley Street South, Egleston Square, Grove Hall West, Lower Roxbury, Mission Hill, Warren Street, Franklin Park, Grove Hall East and Upham's Corner; includes other socioeconomic data for the area, an aggregate inventory of existing services and a residents' assessment of existing conditions and services together with their recommendations in the areas of health, education, recreation and cultural programs, family and child welfare, legal and protective services and employment; also includes the consultant's comments and recomemdnations; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection...