In hopes of revitalizing one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, the Boston Housing Authority experiment with bringing middle class residents into the community has produced mixed results.
"Elizabeth Shanley and Tricia Claussen recall the odd, unfriendly looks from neighbors the day they moved into their spacious, two-level, two-bedroom apartment last year. They were middle-class, white women from the suburbs moving into a $2,000-a-month apartment in Mission Main, a development where most tenants are racial minorities with very low incomes. Some longtime residents eyed the roommates with suspicion...Almost two years after Mission Main - long the area's most troubled public housing development - began a bold social experiment in renting luxury apartments to middle-class tenants, Claussen and Shanley remain strangers in a foreign land, lacking common ground with the poor, single mothers who live around them."
Thanks to Christian Peralta
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