Word: charlesview
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Where: The Charlesview Apartments consist of 213 low-income apartments on the corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue at the edge of the Harvard Business School campus (right circle...
Tensions flared yesterday when Allston community members criticized what they said was a lack of clear communication and information at a meeting with owners of Charlesview Apartments. Over 60 Allston residents gathered to hear preliminary plans for a proposed relocation of the 213-unit affordable housing complex in the heart of Harvard’s planned campus across the Charles River. “This is the beginning of a process of not only sharing our vision and views, but also yours,” said a member of the apartment’s Board of Directors and community pastor...
Residents of the Charlesview Apartments in Allston gathered outside their homes yesterday evening to protest last week’s vote by the Charlesview Board of Directors to enter into a land-swap agreement with Harvard.The group of about 30 residents, organized by the Charlesview Tenants’ Association and accompanied by around 10 Harvard students, announced their opposition to the swap, which would give Harvard the five-acre plot on which Charlesview currently stands. In return, Harvard would build a new affordable housing complex on a 6.5-acre site further southwest in Allston.Protestors criticized the Board for what they...
...With the Charlesview land in hand, the Allston expansion looks set to become a vital part of a unified, contiguous Harvard campus on both sides of the river. But we are not without concern for the current residents of Charlesview, whose current living conditions are substandard and whose concerns must continue to be heard. We are confident, however, that a successful expansion into Allston will benefit not only Harvard, but also the Allston community, and, we hope, the current tenants of Charlesview...
Both Harvard and Charlesview’s board of directors—who are representatives of the three churches and one synagogue that own the apartment complex—have been criticized for negotiating directly with each other and not with Charlesview residents in finalizing the land swap. But this was a necessity of the negotiations process: to buy a piece of land, you must work with the land’s owners. Nevertheless, there is ample scope for tenant input in many other aspects of the final deal. In particular, the tenants’ often-expressed concern that...