Word: gruson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert S. Parks, president of the tenants' association, and John Sharratt, urban consultant to the tenants, made the proposal to Edward S. Gruson, assistant to the President for Community Affairs. They will meet again with Gruson on Wednesday to obtain the University's decision on the proposal...
...proposed, the committee would include Gruson, Parks, Sharratt, a representative from Harvard's realtor, Hunneman and Co., and one from the Office of Taxes, Insurance, and Real Estate. It would make final judgment on rent increases which may be needed to rehabilitate the housing at health and safety code standards...
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...
...THIS point, the tenants secured a written agreement from Gruson and Ebert that the University would file no funding application without tenant approval. Since any such application calls for information concerning developing, architecture, etc., this agreement indirectly gave the tenants a veto over all plans for the new housing...
...Gruson put it. "There's no money to be made in housing for low and low-to-middle income people." But this should be an argument for allowing the present homes to stand, rather than for excusing the University if it should destroy existing housing without providing comparable alternatives beforehand...