The story behind the Hendry Street foreclosure story
Chris Lovett tells us way more about the Dorchester Street that saw a brief flurry of city action after the Herald wrote about foreclosures there (months after the Dorchester Reporter first reported on them):
... But even the best of times on Hendry Street are part of a long, troubled history. The street has been periodically infamous for crime problems, going back at least to the anti-drug campaigns led by Georgette Watson in the mid-1980s. And the rash of foreclosures—at least 12 properties on Hendry, Clarkson, and Coleman Streets counted by city officials—quickly spread through an area dominated by absentee ownership, much of it by a trust for one family. ...
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I don't get it- why does
I don't get it- why does Menino and the city care so much about this one neighborhood? What am I missing?
Simple question, simple answer
You put something on the front page of the Herald, you get results.