Apartheid. USA 1988

February 1, 1988:

US News & World Report offered a review of racial tensions in the Boston area. Last October, the Department of Housing and Urban Development charged the Boston Housing Authority with intentionally discriminating against minorities. ‘The situation is a particularly egregious one,’ wrote the magazine. Between 1983 and 1985, minorities, who constitute more than four fifths of those on the waiting list for public housing, generally received worse apartments than whites. And they had to wait, on an average, nine months longer. In white South Boston, during the same period, officials simply refused to assign any public housing to minority families. Since 1985, change has been slow, with still no blacks in South Boston and only one minority family for every 50 white families.^211.

211. US News & World Report, from a story by Gillian M Sandford