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MICHAEL HARAN

Boston, Massachusetts

1951 - 2023-04-17

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HARAN, Michael A life creating affordable housing Michael Haran spent 45 years creating secure, affordable, dignified housing for people with special needs in Cambridge, Somerville, and surrounding towns. He died April 17, at age 72. Upon receiving a brain cancer diagnosis in July, he quipped...

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I worked with and for Michael at CASCAP in the early 1990s. All I can say is everything I needed to know about leadership and building teams, I learned from Michael. He was dynamic, caring, kind yet also had a set of expectations. He didn´t want you on his team if you required micromanaging. Instead he led by example never asking of anyone what he would not be willing to do himself. I went on to have a very successful career in senior management in the health care industry. There was...

I remember Michael from high school. We were both at Woodstock!! His achievements are noteworthy. My heartfelt thoughts are with his wife Margaret and all of his family. He was definitely a man on a mission. May his good works and legacy continue. Maggie Moran... State College PA

I remember Michael Haran as a lively, charming and fun compatriot from the happy days we shared together as youthful undergraduate students at Goddard College. Michael was a quick wit and a loyal friend who was always anxious to lend a helping hand with any good endeavor. I recall joining with Michael-at his insistent urging-to search for a lost child in the rugged mountainous northern woodlands above Goddard. That was the kind of guy he was, willing to drop everything to help others while...

Michael was patient, kind, & softly persevering. He did things by himself and the loyal contribution of his staffers who had the freedom to be creative. I will miss his creativity and gentleness, Guillermo Bahamon, at US HUD when Michael was a beloved and imaginative customer.

To Mike´s Family and Friends: Please accept my deepest sympathies. Mike was one of the GREATS. I had the immense pleasure and honor to work with him, while I served as Mayor and Councillor of Cambridge. His fantastic personality, knowledge, and empathy had the ability to win people over to the projects he was working on. When Neville was at risk of closing, Mike´s work insured that Cambridge lived up to the need for a continue of care in the creation of Neville Communities. Mike, like...