Black Youths View their Environments: Some Views of Housing

Abstract Sixty black youths living in the Roxbury-North Dorchester section of Boston were asked to describe their present housing and the housing they desired in the future. Their meager descriptions of the exteriors of their present residences are in sharp contrast to their detailed descriptions of the interiors. The extent to which they are aware of the relative condition and situation of their housing becomes evident when one considers that most of the respondents describe suburban residences when asked about the housing they would like in their adult lives. A proposal calling for education of the black and poor about better housing and for social and economic change is offered.