Public Housing on Trial

I need to edit my slides

In the presentation, discuss the following: (a) The context of public housing in Boston (b) The power dynamics at the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) regarding the governing board, the administrator, and the mayor of the city, (c) community/tenant actions in relation to the public housing issues or the operation/decision of the BHA, (d) results of the community actions, and (e) the case’s meaning and lessons for community development — e.g. the potentials of and limits to community social control. Your presentation on (b), (c), and (d) is likely to be interactive, so that you may not want to address these 3 aspects sequentially or separately.

I have reviewed your slides. It is a good start. Please check the slides again. There are a few typing errors. Please also replace the photo on the Boston public housing page. The one you have is from the tenement housing era at the turn of the 20th century. If you search for Mary Ellen McCormack public housing, you should be able to find more appropriate Boston public housing photos, or you may find one from my slide presentation the first couple of weeks of the semester.

More importantly, I like you to elaborate/expand the last two slides on the interactions and dynamics between the Mayor, the BHA board, the executive director, and the Tenant Association Policy Council. You may focus on how the residents got into the BHA board and threatened the board members who used the board to enrich themselves and associates, how the power conflict between the board and the executive director and the mayor, and how throughout this process the residents had access to the housing power structure to voice their concerns more forcefully and effectively to make positive changes. This would be a good example of public housing residents (community) exercising some control without some accommodation from the city government.