Skip to main content

Manuscripts/9. Housing Justice

 Record Group Term
Identifier: Manuscripts/9

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Action for Boston Community Development records

 Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015477067,TRF119719796]
Identifier: Z10-004
Dates: ca. 1980-2006
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Boston Foundation records

 Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z09-022
Dates: ca. 1987-2001
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Cambridge Eviction Free Zone records

 Collection
Identifier: M170
Overview

Founded in 1988, the Cambridge Eviction Free Zone (EFZ) was a tenant-run community organization that worked for social and economic justice in the areas of housing and tenants' rights, rent control, and immigrant voting rights. It also addressed issues of affordability and conditions in rental housing. Until its disbandment in December 2007, EFZ assisted tenants in exercising their legal rights, providing information and support to tenants facing evictions and rent increases.



Dates: 1972-2007; Majority of material found within 1988-2007
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Committee for Cambridge Rent Control records

 Collection
Identifier: M166
Overview

The Committee for Cambridge Rent Control (CCRC) was founded by Cambridge Eviction Free Zone to develop an initiative petition to re-establish rent control in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2003, CCRC gathered enough signatures to place its initiative petition on the ballot for the November elections, but the measure failed to win enough votes to pass. CCRC disbanded in late 2003.



Dates: 1998-2003; Majority of material found within 2002-2003
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Grants Management Associates records

 Collection
Identifier: M178
Overview Grants Management Associates was founded in 1982 by Newell Flather, Mary Phillips, and Ala Reid. It was renamed GMA Foundations in 2009 and provides consulting, administrative, and organizational support services to grant-making organizations in the Boston area. Among its clients is The Riley Foundation, which was established through a bequest from Mabel Louise Riley.In April 1984, Newell Flather of GMA and two of The Riley Foundation's trustees, Robert W. Holmes, Jr. and Andrew...
Dates: 1974-1999; Majority of material found within 1984-1999
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Jeane Neville papers

 Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z23-008
Dates: circa 1965-1981
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Persistent Poverty Project records

 Collection
Identifier: M127
Overview The Boston Foundation was created in 1915 as the Permanent Charity Fund by brothers Charles E. and Charles M. Rogerson to relieve hardship in Boston brought on by World War I. After the war, the Fund expanded its scope of activity to include community activism and involvement on a wider scale. In 1964, Albert Stone, Jr., left the Fund $20 million in his will, allowing the Fund to support special projects in Boston neighborhoods in addition to its other grant-making activities. In 1985, the...
Dates: 1985-2002
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Travelers Aid Family Services of Boston records

 Collection
Identifier: M187
Overview Travelers Aid Family Services (TAFS) was established in 1916 as a result of increasing awareness of the need to provide services for the vast numbers of immigrants coming to the United States. In 1920, TAFS was formally incorporated as the Travelers Aid Society of Boston. In 1958, TAFS's mission was "to provide information, advice, guidance, and protection to all travelers, who by reason of unfamiliarity with the city, inexperience, unemployment, illness, infirmity, or other disability are...
Dates: 1891-2008; Majority of material found within 1930-1995
Found in: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

Contact: 617-373-2351 · archives@northeastern.edu Send Feedback or Report a Problem