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Turk made a short speech and offered documentation of the study's conclusions, which were based on responses from tenants of 174 Harvard-owned apartments. There followed a short discussion among rent board members, which was dominated by Landlord representative Alfred Cohn. "There are a lot of Harvard buildings on the high end" of energy usage among city properties. Cohn admitted. But he added, leaning back in his chair. "Harvard is now pursuing the problem vigorously and we expect them to soon move past other buildings in the city" in terms of energy efficiency...
...Cohn then made a statement which union members said afterwards had shocked and disappointed them. "I would think you are in an extraordinarily favorable situation and would stay a Harvard tenant." Cohn told the residents who had invested long hours uncovering what they believed to be HRE's massive wastefulness...
...Cohn explained that Harvard is one of the few Cambridge landlords that can afford the major expenditures needed to reduce fuel consumption. Turk responded that "major renovations" would mean increased rents and that Harvard could cut fuel costs simply by eliminating waste, performing routine maintenance, and obtaining quantity discounts on fuel. These measures, Turk said, had been indicated by the HTU survey and were likely to generatelower rents for Harvard tenants. But Cohn, himself a landlord and the only rent board member to serve since the agency's inception, was not convinced...
Rubbing his eyes and leaning away from the audience of University tenants. Cohn repeated that as occupants of Harvard housing. "You should consider yourselves very fortunate...
Because the rent board maintains no systematic record of case precedent. Cohn, the only member who has served since the beginning of rent control, "is the repository of a lot of information on how the board works." "It falls to Cohn to say, 'Oh, yeah. I remember that,'" Turk explains. "His memory can be selective and it gives him even more power. There should be some way of allowing some one who's fresh to know what's going...