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History of a plot: Part 2, Crossing Delancey
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. – Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Yesterday’s Part 1 introduced us to William Rapfogel, protege of...
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History of a plot: Part 3, Code words for ‘those people’
[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict; something bad has to happen. – Mike Judge. As we saw in Part 1 and...
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History of a plot: Part 4, Housing for whom?
[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By: David A. Smith The king died, and then the queen dies is a story. The king died, and then the queen died of grief, is a...
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History of a plot: Part 5, it’s not gentrification if it’s we who gentrify
[Continued from yesterday's Part 4 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3] By: David A. Smith When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story. – Charles Baxter...
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History of a plot: Part 6, You can’t go home again
[Continued from yesterday's Part 5 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.] By: David A. Smith Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. – Phaedrus. As we’ve...
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Oh, THAT money we were supposed to collect: Part 1, “We’re not enforcing”
By: David A. Smith With former Mayor Tom Menino fighting cancer but maintaining his immensely cheerful and upbeat self, new mayor Marty Walsh, firmly in charge of Boston City Hall, must clean up the...
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Oh, THAT money we were supposed to collect: Part 2, Incapable of performing...
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.] By: David A. Smith In writing this multi-part part on the utter disgrace that is the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), in contrast to the journalists who...
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Oh, THAT money we were supposed to collect: Part 3, An abject mess
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith No transparency, no records, no tracking systems – is it any wonder that the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) has...
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Oh, THAT money we were supposed to collect: Part 4, “The BRA? That’s me!”
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By: David A. Smith “The BRA? That’s me!” As we saw yesterday, the BRA had no internal accountability (of its employees, who...
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Always wary: Part 3, How we imagine a better tomorrow
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] By: David A. Smith As we saw in yesterday’s Part 2, most legacy public housing today is deeply income concentrated, physically obsolescent,...
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Always wary: Part 4, Why we fear a better tomorrow won’t be ours
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 3 and the preceding Part 1 and Part 2.] By: David A. Smith So far in this story of the possible comprehensive redevelopment of Bunker Hill public housing – in which...
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Always wary: Part 5, How the journey changes who we are
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 4 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.] By: David A. Smith As shown in the previous parts of this post, the future of Bunker Hill public housing requires...
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Always wary: Part 6, Why we fear to hope
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 5 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.] By: David A. Smith Though the transformation of Bunker Hill public housing will be completely new to the current...
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Always wary: Part 7, How our choice reflects trust and faith
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 6 and the preceding Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.] By: David A. Smith For a little more than a decade, the decline of public housing – a bipartisan and...
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