Papers on the Boston Housing Authority Receivership, 1976-1985.

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Papers on the Boston Housing Authority Receivership, 1976-1985.

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The papers include minutes, reports, memoranda, and correspondence created by Judge Garrity and officials involved in the early efforts to reform the Boston Housing Authority and in the receivership. Many are copies of documents in the official court record.

2 cartons; 10 file boxes.

University of Massachusetts at Boston, Healey Library

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University of Massachusetts at Boston, Healey Library

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Garrity, Paul G.

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In 1975 Paul G. Garrity, Chief Judge of the Housing Court of the City of Boston, heard Amando Perez, et als., vs. BHA, a class action suit brought by BHA tenants. The BHA was unable to respond adequately, and PGG ordered the receivership in 1980. The receiver was to reorganize and administer the BHA. The City resumed responsibility for the BHA in October 1984 when PGG found the receivership successful enough to end it. From the description of Papers on the Boston Housing Authority Re...

Boston Housing Authority

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The Boston Housing Authority (BHA) was established by order of the Boston City Council on Oct. 1, 1935, pursuant to St 1935, c 449, s 5, which empowered cities and towns of Massachusetts to establish housing authorities. Such a body is responsible for providing decent, safe, and sanitary housing for families unable to afford housing without public subsidy and for clearing substandard, decadent, or blighted open areas under the provisions of MGLA c 121B. To carry out these responsibi...