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Mission Hill already has one of the largest concentration of low-income housing in the Commonwealth, partly because of Harvard's own huge housing project at Mission Park. Any more low-income housing in a community that has between 60 percent and 70 percent low-income housing already would be a violation of federal law and all guidelines for sound urban planning. Kathryn J. Brookins
...trying to get the message out, not just to violaters, but to people who might experience the same issue," said Andrew Savitz, the Massachusetts assistant secretary of enviromental law. "There's a lot of construction going on around the Commonwealth and it is important that they understand that they check and double check if they are engaged in demolition work where there might be asbestos...
...banners: LA ESTADIDAD ES PARA LOS POBRES. Statehood for the poor? In Puerto Rico's triangulated politics, the statehood cause had been - monopolized by the upper class. A small faction of nationalists and leftists fought, occasionally with guns, for total independence. The rest of the population appeared content with commonwealth status, the pragmatic option in effect since 1952. As an American commonwealth, or "associated free state" in island usage, Puerto Rico has received enough benefits and tax concessions from Washington to make it rich by Caribbean standards. But it remains impoverished compared with the mainland, with half the per capita...
...triangle has been rearranged. The New Progressive Party, led by former Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo, argues that statehood would mean not only political equality but also more food on the table. The Popular Democratic Party, under incumbent Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, contends that only an "enhanced" version of commonwealth can protect the island's economy as well as its Hispanic culture. Judging by polls and street-corner opinion, Romero's statehood campaign today enjoys momentum. When the Popular Democrats staged a rally in Mayaguez, only 75 partisans showed up. Watching the Ponce parade, Luisa Rodriguez, an unemployed mother of seven...
Washington helped promote the change in political dynamics. In January 1989 Hernandez proposed that Congress give formal blessing to a plebiscite with three options: independence, statehood or a modified form of commonwealth giving the island greater self-government. A month later, George Bush endorsed the proposal and reaffirmed the G.O.P.'s traditional support for statehood. But Bush signaled that he intended more than the token effort made by Republican predecessors. Bush and the Republican National Committee are trying to pry Hispanics from their traditional Democratic loyalty. Proposing full political equality for the island seized from Spain in 1898 helps that...