Word: ahc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were any of these decisions made in consultation with affected tenants. There were no provisions for tenant representation on the AHC governing board, and even the question of community membership on the Fein Committee was a point of sharp contention. Only after extensive debate within the committee (including, at one point, a discussion of whether the affected area fit the definitions of "community" and "neighborhood"), were representatives of five community organizations invited to join. Tenants and others in the area later worked in sub-committees and task forces as directed by the committee, but their effectiveness was limited...
...AHC's decision to move the hospital site bore only an incidental relation to the fact that original plans called for the destruction of large numbers of homes. Conceivably, this decision might have been made on the grounds that many families would otherwise have been displaced, and that the subsequent loss of low-income housing would have constricted an already tight housing market. Going a step further, the decision could have been made in consultation with the tenants themselves. Neither of these things was done...
HOSPITAL construction is now planned for a site on which there is no housing, but there is every indication that much of the original site will still be taken. The AHC now maintains a permanent option on an area which contains one-third of the endangered homes. F. Stanton Deland, Jr. '36, president of the AHC and a Harvard Overseer, stated recently that if the AHC finds no use for the land in three years' time, the option will revert back to the University, and possibly from the University to other medical agencies...
...University refused to lease apartments in the area on which the AHC held an option. There were conflicting explanations of why this policy existed. At the beginning of January, Shopard Brown, vice president of Hunneman and Co., Harvard's realtor, said "We have been holding for eventual demolition and construction of the Affiliated Hospital." One week later, Med School administrators said that apartments in this zone remained unrented because the tenants' association had not provided the University with relocation plans for prospective rentees of these apartments...
...originally planned, the AHC was to increase the number of inpatient beds in its component teaching hospitals from 678 to 910, and the number of ambulatory care visits per year from 90,000 to 250,000. As the cost estimate spiraled, it became necessary to cut back on each of these increases. But, while in-patient beds were reduced by only 15 per cent (to 780), the ambulatory capability was cut back by 46 per cent...