"The Fair Housing Committee"
Drive Planned For Low Income Housing
The Register, June 27, 1968
"The need for low income housing is reaching a crisis,"
Barnstable Selectman Thomas Murphy told members of the
Fair Housing Committee on Cape Cod
and visitors at a recent meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barnet.
"While 24% of the population of Barnstable earns under $3000.00 annually, the town now contains only 40 low cost housing units,"
Mr. Murphy said.
The Fair Housing Committee
plans to sponsor articles for low income housing in the
1969 Barnstable Town Warrant.
Hoping to bring the housing crisis to the attention of the public, the
Fair Housing Committee
voted to join with the
Community Council, the
Community Action Program and the
NAACP In holding
Capewide open hearings in the fall where people of low incomes who have tried to rent can tell of their experiences.
Procedures to help complainants in cases of suspected discrimination were discussed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell, treasurer,
Mrs. Emarson Mosely,
John Coe, and
Selectman Murphy
reported on visits to area newspapers to discuss real estate advertising practices.
Other committee members at the meeting were Mrs. James Eteson, vice-president,
Louis Jacobucci,
Mrs. Cecil Holt.
Harold Hutcheson,
Harold Perkins, and
Mrs. Henry Fitzgerald, and new members
Mrs. Martin Kapp and
Mrs. Brenda Pochay.
People in the community with problems of discrimination in housing are encouraged to call the committee's new emergency number, 362-6979.
Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty-Seven
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #20:
"My father took a shower with me, and I turned out just fine!"
"What?!"
"What?"
"What you said?"
"I didn't say anything. Where were we?"
"Where were who? When?"
"Where were you and I, on what date did you and I leave off last week? In our chronology of my mother's life story? Keep up!"
"Um . . . July 1966. The Cub Scouts."
"October 13, 1966 . . . The regular meeting of the Go-Getter's Mothers Club will be held Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. at the elementary school . . . Apparently there was a mothers' group in place of a Parent-Teacher Association . . . the Go-Getters Club . . . Mrs. Louis J. Jacobucci will be the speaker of the evening. Mrs. Jacobucci Is district executive of the Cape Cod District of the MSPCC. This will be an open meeting and promises to be an interesting one. Guests are cordially invited to attend from any of the surrounding villages."
"So? What of it?"
"Mrs. Jacobucci Is district executive of the Cape Cod District of the MSPCC?"
"I'm sure it's just a typo. Move on."...
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community activities."
"You are delusional."
"Then, I found this article, and it all ...
"I have a thesis. My thesis is: In any woman's life, having children would have to be the most significant event. So, in my mother's story -- "
"Her family wasn't really any different from any of the other families."
"Yes."
"In what way?"
"She and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Both her children went to school."
"What else?"
"They were both boys?"
"Anything else?"
"No. That's it."
"So you said, that one way in which your mother's family wasn't really any different from any of the other families, was that she and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Can you tell me a little more about that?"
"Oh, sure. There was always something going on. Cub Scouts, she was like Den Mother of her older son's Cub Scout Pack. Pack 54. Plus the Comedy Club. Plus I'm pretty sure, she was involved in the kindergarten. She and her husband both. And politics. It was the Sixties."
"Just normal 60's Mom stuff."
"In any case, it's time to forget the past."
