Affordable housing champion, businessman Harvey Vengroff dies

Entrepreneur remembered as fighter for less fortunate.

File. Harvey Vengroff died Oct. 11. He was 77 years old.
File. Harvey Vengroff died Oct. 11. He was 77 years old.
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When Mark Vengroff was 15, in the mid 1990s, he bought his dad, Harvey Vengroff, a pair of wacky and wildly colorful Jams shorts for his birthday.

 

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