Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liberal City Councilors criticized the planvolubly at the time and still do. At a recent CityCouncil meeting Councilor Saundra M. Grahaminveighed against the program, which she saiddrove up property values and gave Harvardprofessors an unfair advantage in this area'sfierce battle for housing...
...Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 said, "Wecertainly asked [Harvard] in several forms to stopthat program. It pushed up the price of housingfor everybody." He added that at least one Harvardprofessor, whom he would not identify, had boughta house under the program "for investmentpurposes...
...concentrations of nonwhites have settled in the downtown business area and a midtown neighborhood called Hillbrow, which now has a 40% black population of about 35,000. "What is happening in Johannesburg is not an issue of political defiance but a case of necessity," says Tony Leon, a city councilor who represents a gray section of Hillbrow. "These people have nowhere else...
Despite his predictions that the program would flop, Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci offered to vote with the four CIA members to "give it a whirl." Vellum's support gave the measure a majority of the Council's nine votes. Later, the program passed 8 to 1, with Councilor William H. Walsh dissenting...
Aside from the at-large council candidates nine councilor were elected from city districts. They are: incumbent Robert Travaglini, incumbent James M. Kelley, incumbent James E. Byrne, incumbent Charles C. Yancey, incumbent Thomas Menino, incumbent Maura Hennigan Casey, incumbent Bruce C. Bolling, incumbent David C. Scondras '67, and incumbent Brian McLaughlin...