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Recent developments: After two unsuccessful proposals, last month Harvard offered Charlesview a 6.5-acre site further up Western Avenue currently occupied by the Brighton Mills Shopping Center (left circle on map). The Board found the offer suitable and has begun to pursue a swap. Some residents, however, remain unhappy and have protested the proposed move...
What is so complicated: While occupied by about 600 residents, Charlesview is owned and operated by a separate board of directors. The board decided about three years ago to negotiate with Harvard University to relocate and rebuild the 35-year-old complex, which is badly in need of repair. The separation between the board and the residents has greatly complicated the negotiation...
...that I first met Josephine Fiorentino—then chair of the board of directors for the Charlesview Apartments—she spoke with passion about the historical importance of the 213-unit affordable housing development as a community within Allston. She did not meet with me to dwell on the past or to bemoan the difficult challenges of operating an aging housing complex like Charlesview. She made it abundantly clear that what she and her fellow Charlesview board members were focused on was the long term future of Charlesview; and that, they thought, involved Harvard...
...Today, Charlesview still works in the way that it was originally intended by the consortium of religious organizations that established it 35 years...
...Charlesview Apartments provide decent, affordable housing for people who, without this valuable resource, might be subject to the fears and frustrations that haunt so many families who are unable to find housing within their means...