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With the help of Boston's Tactical Police Force (TPF), the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) yesterday won its nine-year struggle with a group of three Allston families who have consistently refused to move from the proposed site of a 212-unit housing project...
Since 1965 the number of families resisting evictions has been reduced to two by BRA relocation efforts. These two will probably lose their nine-year fight sometime today...
Three members of the families yesterday flew to Washington to request that HUD officials instruct the BRA to stay eviction proceedings pending a Federal investigation of their case. Their efforts were unsuccessful yesterday, and it was unclear late last night what further moves in Washington the families themselves planned...
Miss Hemphill said that she didn't "anticipate fighting the police." If the Sheriffs see a lot of people there they might avoid violent eviction proceedings, and the BRA might offer the families much better relocation opportunities than have been presented in the past, she added...
...Today's prebable evictions will end a nine-year struggle between the North Harvard comminuity and utban renewal forest. The BRA initiated eminent domain proceedings in 1961 when about 60 buildings stood on the proposed buil ding site. Eviction proceedings erupted in violence in 1965, and the project was then changed from luxury apartments to low and moderate income housing...