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...incorrupt in asserting that the Affiliated Hospitals Center (AHC) would be a University-owned facility. The AHC is a collective enterprise of tee's decisions. But the committee was given no definitive powers, and Ebert ruled at the outset that it could not place under reconsideration the projected location of the AHC itself...
There were three empty tracts of Harvard-owned land in the vicinity of the Med School on which the AHC could conceivably have been located. But the housing site was selected for the AHC for two reasons: the need to reuse some of the existing Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and what Richard D. Wittrup, now executive vice president of the AHC, called "internal relations within the medical complex...
AFTER choosing the site, the AHC assumed responsibility for relocating displaced tenants and was engaged in preliminary planning for new housing units. But within days of the University Hall occupation there occurred a transfer of this responsibility and Harvard took charge of the task. As the Fein Committee began its proceedings in late April, the University pledged that there would be no evictions until it had built new housing at comparable rents and in nearby areas...
...Corporation announced that Harvard would build 1100 low and moderate income housing units in the medical area to alleviate the housing shortage caused by construction of the AHC. But contracting an architect and developer, producing federal subsidies for the low-income portion of the housing, S. Gruson, assistant to the President for Community Affairs, first appeared before the committee on May 12, the plans had already been made. Neither was the AHC site a subject of the committee's deliberations. Despite numerous objections by committee members, and a petition signed by over two-thirds of all first-year medical students...
...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...