Word: charlesview
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...Charlesview board has preferred to merely fly below the radar, pushing ahead with a “process” bent on reaching a foregone conclusion. The board seems reluctant to push back at Harvard for better sites, community benefits, and other improvements for Charlesview. It is as if the board believes that demanding full value for our asset would somehow offend Harvard and cause the board to lose its opportunity...
Ricardo Sanchez is a resident of Charlesview and a member of the Charlesview Residents Organization...
Namely, the backyard of 213 families living in the Charlesview Apartments, the low-income housing complex that currently stands in the way of Harvard’s plans for expansion across the river into Allston. Charlesview has been the backyard of approximately 600 residents for 35 years, but whether we’re getting down at the Game or imagining where a “Welcome to Harvard-Allston” sign would look best, it is easy to forget that Charlesview, like the rest of lower Allston, is a place where people live...
...Charlesview is a place where families live, where children have been raised, where community has been forged, and a generation of people have made lives for themselves and their loved ones. Surely, it is also a place in need of renovation after years of neglect by its owners. Harvard could simply be a good neighbor and help them renovate the complex...
Instead, Harvard’s expansion proposal, as it currently stands, will scatter the Charlesview families and disrupt the lives and livelihoods of the tenants by forcibly relocating them to areas farther away from jobs, neighborhood life, and public transportation. Harvard has the money and power, and so it feels entitled to the homes of poor Charlesview residents. But these residents don’t have the money or power to stand up alone to a multi-billion dollar corporation eyeing their little plot of concrete and community. That is why they have asked for student support...