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Old Harbor Housing Project

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Built in 1936 by the Federal Public Works Administration (PWA) as one of 50 slum clearance and low income housing projects being constructed nationwide. Construction cost $ 6,000,000, and opened on May 1, 1938. The Old Harbor Village was the first public housing development in
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grew up, and a neighborhood "where court-ordered desegregation of schools through busing led to hostility and violence in the 1970s". The housing project itself was under a HUD approved desegregation plan.
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and it remains one of the largest. It comprises more than 1,000 apartments in 22 three-story buildings and 152 row houses. The complex was renamed after the mother of
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In August 2017, the Boston Housing Authority announced a partnership with WinnCompanies on a $ 1.6 billion redevelopment project that would replace the 1,016
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to the replacement subsidized units. The proposal also calls for the addition of community space, green space and retail locations, including a
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Specification for construction of superstructure for Old Harbor Village, Project no. H-3302, Boston, Massachusetts
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As of 2017, the complex has 1,016 subsidized apartments located a short distance from the
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Old Harbor Housing Project: A study of development of public housing policy, 1930-1938
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From the Puritans to the projects: public housing and public neighbors
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Public housing project located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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The Project is best known for being the housing project where
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Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
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housing project
South Boston
Massachusetts
New England
John W. McCormack
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
James "Whitey" Bulger
Red Line
subsidized apartments
mixed-income
middle-income
market-rate
condominiums
supermarket
Desegregation busing in the United States
Old Colony Housing Project
From the Puritans to the projects: public housing and public neighbors
pp.175-176 & various
"South Boston preservation study"
"Mary Ellen McCormack (Housing)"
"Senate president: A mix of family, Southie, power"
"First Blacks Moving to Boston Project"


"WinnCompanies picked to expand, rebuild Southie housing complex, a $ 1.6b project"
The Boston Globe
"WinnDevelopment Chosen to Redevelop the Mary Ellen McCormack Public Housing Development"
"Mary Ellen McCormack Redevlopment"
"Boston's First Public Housing Development: The Mary Ellen McCormack"
42°19′37″N 71°03′18″W / 42.327°N 71.055°W / 42.327; -71.055

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