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...enemy was the BRA...
...informal insurrection started in 1960 when Judge John C. Pappas presented the BRA with the proposal of Pappas and Pappas Realty Corporation to develop the area by razing the present frame buildings and putting up 280 units of high rise, high rent ($175-$275 per month) apartments oriented towards occupancy by Harvard personnel...
After Pappas met with the Authority, the BRA began to prepare preliminary plans for the project. By June 1962, matters had progressed far enough so that the Pappas Brothers and Maurice Simon, a Boston real estate developer, presented an application for consent to form a corporation to carry out the project under urban renewal law. The wheels were rolling...
...June 1, 1962, the BRA released a general plan for the New Boston outlining the major projects it was going to undertake. Included as a "smaller-scale project ... independent of the over-all program" was the renewal of North Harvard, with a tentative ground-breaking date of Spring 1963. Hearings for the project were to be held in four weeks...
According to Homans, if final agreement on the plan is reached, the BRA will determine what Federal Housing Administration financing is available for rehabilitation. It will also investigate whether any residents are eligible for rehabilitation grants under the Federal Housing...