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AFTER choosing the site, the AHC assumed responsibility for relocating displaced tenants and was engaged in preliminary planning for new housing units. But within days of the University Hall occupation there occurred a transfer of this responsibility and Harvard took charge of the task. As the Fein Committee began its proceedings in late April, the University pledged that there would be no evictions until it had built new housing at comparable rents and in nearby areas...
...Community Affairs, first appeared before the committee on May 12, the plans had already been made. Neither was the AHC site a subject of the committee's deliberations. Despite numerous objections by committee members, and a petition signed by over two-thirds of all first-year medical students, Fein ruled that the site question was beyond the committee's purview...
...were any of these decisions made in consultation with affected tenants. There were no provisions for tenant representation on the AHC governing board, and even the question of community membership on the Fein Committee was a point of sharp contention. Only after extensive debate within the committee (including, at one point, a discussion of whether the affected area fit the definitions of "community" and "neighborhood"), were representatives of five community organizations invited to join. Tenants and others in the area later worked in sub-committees and task forces as directed by the committee, but their effectiveness was limited...
...University did not act on a recommendation of the Fein Committee that maintenance be undertaken in deteriorated apartments. A subcommittee survey revealed that over half of the tenants contacted felt that maintenance had been unsatisfactory. The committee ruled in June that the housing "be reasonably improved and maintained at Harvard's expense and in any event that steps be taken to eliminate hazards." Yet six months later, Stephen J. Miller, associate dean for Urban Affairs at the Med School, acknowledged, "Yes, maintainence has been-what do I want to say-lousy...
This relocation plan was never honored by the University or even approved by the Fein Committee. In late September, Gruson appeared at a subcommittee meeting with a developer which the University-not the tenants-had selected, and informed the tenants for the first time that Harvard was engaged in filing a funding application with the federal government for the low-income portion of the new housing project. (Gruson later called the tenants' relocation plan "unacceptable...