Word: ahc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEAR ago this month, Harvard notified 182 tenants in the area of the Medical School that their homes would be torn down to make room for construction of the Affiliated Hospitals Center (AHC). The tenants, who were told that their homes would be taken in two to five years, were not at that time organized into a tenants' union. Even after the eviction notices had been received, there were many difficulties in building an organization of affected tenants...
...that the AHC be built only where no homes would be destroyed and only if it provided low-cost medical care for the surrounding community...
...Although AHC spokesmen contend that new ambulatory methods are now being explored, the 50 per cent increase in ambulatory capacity may well be inadequate for the purpose of extending the current level of care...
...AHC officials acknowledge that there are no tenant representatives on the hospital's governing board. They claim that the AHC will serve communities other than that in Roxbury. "If a man in Virginia wants to come to our hospital for health care. who's to say he can't?" said Executive Vice President Wittrup. "The problem of community representation is not even easy to state...
When tenants demanded that their homes not be demolished, and that the AHC be built only if it served the health needs of their community, they spoke for more people than themselves. It is in the interest of most people in Boston that 182 units of lowincome housing be kept on a severely tightened housing market, and that the AHC budget of $75 million be allocated in a way that can contribute to a genuine improvement of medical care for the urban population...