Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Graham defends her vote on the project, saying she got MIT to promise more housing than the activists hoped for. Rather than compromising, she says, she forced MIT to compromise...
Many who see a changing relationship between Graham and her district point to the fact that she cast the decisive sixth vote to let MIT go ahead with its University Park development. Graham sided with the Council's five Independents to approve a rezoning proposal, on condition that MIT build 400 units of housing, 150 of them subsidized, as part of the development...
William Cavellini, a leader of the Simplex Steering Commitee's campaign against the project, acknowledges that Graham extracted more housing from MIT, but says she neglected to consult the committee. For example, he says Graham did not tell him when the Community Development Department redefined the meaning of low-and moderate-income housing. When he pointed the change out to her, Cavellini says, "she just shrugged her shoulders...
Cavellini says that while he believes Graham is committed to affordable housing, he finds her more inclined as a politician to make deals with developers...
...past, Graham has also faced criticisms that she is willing to compromise her principles, particularly where her family is concerned. In 1985, a series of articles in The Boston herald accused Graham of involvement in the real estate activities of one of her sons and questioned her devotion to tenant's rights...