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Boston Housing Authority company history timeline

1935

BHA was established by the Mayor and City Council in October of 1935 in accordance with the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 121, secs.

1938

The federal program dates back to the initial occupancy of the Mary Ellen McCormack Houses in May of 1938.

1957

BHA was also charged with clearing substandard, decadent or blighted open areas and urban redevelopment, although this responsibility was later transferred to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) in 1957.

1979

In 1979, the judge ruled that BHA had failed to satisfactorily fulfill the terms of the consent decree and BHA was placed in receivership, with its board of commissioners and administrator replaced by a court-appointed receiver.

1983

By 1983, the department began to further train and professionalize the unit by sending the then-42 investigators through the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Committee Basic Police Recruit Academies.

1990

Since 1990, when the receivership ended, BHA has been directed by an administrator whose activities are reviewed by a nine-member monitoring committee appointed by the mayor of Boston.

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