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...talk of money and location, lifetime tenants of Charlesview have two things that can’t be quantified in cost-benefit analysis: pride, and long memories...
Some first learned what it was like to be kicked out of their homes 40 years ago, when the Boston Redevelopment Authority seized dozens of Charlesview homes under eminent domain with the plan to replace them with luxury condos. After massive civil disobedience, the Authority was forced to go with the affordable housing complex instead...
...affordable housing, Harvard has made a solid start of contributing to the larger community, investing millions in a housing project in south Allston and more in other area programs. But Harvard can’t have its way with the residents of Charlesview by throwing money at the neighborhood. It’s time to actually start respecting what these people want...
...proposal to include all community members in the Charlesview decision deserves the unconditional support of the student body. Any expansion that fails to respect tenants’ rights, their voices, and their desires will not only demolish one of Allston’s last bastions of affordable housing, but will pit town against gown before the first brick of this campus-to-be is even laid...
...look up at the Charlesview Apartments on a snowy day, there’s a moment when the jagged concrete edges fade away, and all you can see are the windows of neighbors, bright with holiday green and season’s greetings and simple joys found amid adversity...