General Plan for Boston.

[1950] Boston Planning Board. The plan is submitted to Mayor John Hynes after the agency was directed to develop a “slum clearance plan” earlier that summer. It calls for redeveloping some 2,700 acres (20% of the city) over the next 25 years, including “[More than a thousand acres] so clearly substandard. . . that sweeping clearance of buildings is the only way they can be restored.” The Boston Housing Authority establishes a Redevelopment Division to implement the plan, which calls for “a reversal of the present trends toward increasing proportions of low-income groups and non-whites in the core city.”