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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...
...Councilor David E. Sullivan said theprogram "brings additional buyers into the marketwho otherwise wouldn't be there." Other tenantactivists have charged HRE used the program toexpand its holdings, since Harvard always retainedthe option to buy back each home whose owner hadreceived a University mortgage subsidy...
...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...