Excerpt from The Columbia Point Public Housing Project: A Proposal for Revitalization; An Application to the U. S. Department of Housing Urban Development for Section 8 Housing Assistance Funds; July 1975 In fact, the difficulties of residing at Columbia Point have become so great even for those whose choice of housing is very limited that for several years approximately one - third of the apart ments have remained vacant and attrition still continues. Currently less than 800 of the units are occupied by families and 135 by govern mental, social service and medical agencies, 570 units are listed as vacant, and many of these have been vandalized to the point where the Housing Authority cannot afford to make them available for occupancy. Although at one time the population of Columbia Point was fairly representative of Boston's public housing tenancy, increasingly over the past decade the project has been housing a higher percentage of families with potential social problems than do other Housing Authority projects. For example, of the families depend on welfare as their only source of income, average income is only $3450. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.