Manuscripts/9. Housing Justice
Record Group Term
Identifier: Manuscripts/9
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Action for Boston Community Development records
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015477067,TRF119719796]
Identifier: Z10-004
Dates:
ca. 1980-2006
Boston Foundation records
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z09-022
Dates:
ca. 1987-2001
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
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
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
Ken Kruckemeyer papers
Collection
Identifier: M225
Overview
These records document community activism around three sites in Boston, Massachusetts: the Southwest Corridor, Tent City, and Melnea Cass Boulevard. For each site, Kruckemeyer played an important role in advocating for neighborhood interests to be taken into account in the development schemes proposed by private, city, state, and federal entities. The records also document the planning, environmental impact studies, and construction of the Southwest Corridor, for which Kruckemeyer served as...
Dates:
1966-2020
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
Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (Jeane Neville) records
Collection
Identifier: M224
Overview
The collection documents the first decade of the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (RTH), a housing advocacy organization founded in 1969 to oppose Harvard University’s proposed expansion into the Mission Hill neighborhood. RTH was successful in pressuring Harvard to create a relocation housing development instead, and in 1976, RTH was able to plan and develop the mixed-income affordable housing community Mission Park. The collection captures the unfolding of events, and the back and forth...
Dates:
1962-2021; Majority of material found within 1969-1980
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