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...Charlesview Apartments are a gritty cluster of concrete rising in the shadow of the brick walls of the Business School and the neighborhood’s long-time neglect. Charlesview is not exactly a pretty sight. But for many of its low-income tenants, it’s all that they?...
Take Bill, who put down his groceries to speak to me on a snowy morning outside Charlesview this weekend. He chose to be identified only by his first name. Bill was born and bred in the apartments and has lived there his entire life. His mother was born on the site, too, long before the complex went up in its present form in the late...
...fact, Charlesview has needed fixing for decades, with mold and leaks abounding through the halls and walls and the building’s owners refusing to take action. Though the lowest-income tenants get federal housing subsidies, many have seen their rents driven up by even the smallest of renovations...
...Harvard doesn’t seem to want to renovate Charlesview as it takes over the surrounding blocks. Instead, the University pushes to tear down the apartments and relocate their residents somewhere way out of sight of the future campus. One tenant informed me that she and her neighbors have received multiple phone calls in a single week pressuring them to sell...
...blow to Harvard’s efforts to take over the site of the Charlesview Apartments in Allston, the apartments’ owners said in a statement yesterday that they were seriously considering opposing the move of the 213-unit complex. For nearly three years, Harvard and the Charlesview Board of Directors have discussed an arrangement in which Harvard would construct a new building for Charlesview residents elsewhere, in exchange for Charlesview’s current site at the corner of North Harvard St. and Western Ave. The land has been touted as a space for either graduate school buildings...