Tags: housing development

CRCP Fellows discuss the history of Camfield Estates in Roxbury, Massachusetts, which was formerly known as Camfield Gardens. As well as the formation of the Camfield Tenants Association.

This story, by "Smokey," is a true story written for a class project, that he turned into a digital story as part of his work at the Camfield Technology Center this summer. It uses spoken word and repetition of the phrase "take a walk in my shoes," to emphasis his feelings of disappointment of having to move to a one bedroom apartment in the projects with his family of seven. It happened because his mom got into trouble with the law and they lost everything.

Barbara wrote this story about her progression as a mother and community leader in her housing development, Villa Victoria in the South End of Boston. She started the workshop as the host with great hesitation about actually having a story about herself. Her modesty about her standing within the Villa Victoria community was challenged by her fellow IBA co-workers.