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...Harvard Tenants' Union (HTU) last night presented the Cambridge Rent Control Board with partial results of a survey on energy consumption and heating, which it said demonstrates a "gross form of mismanagement" by Harvard Real Estate (HRE...
This series of articles will examine the dozens of battles Harvard has fought with its tenants in the three years since HRE was formed, in an attempt to focus on and evaluate some of the recurring complaints. Those complaints include...
...Cambridge Ren: Control Board in an effort to gain rent increases, and not passed on property tax abatements to tenants. Some cases are well-documented--in September of 1979, for instance, the University tried to collect rent increases without proper notification. Other instances include charges of perjury levelled at HRE officials two weeks ago by a tenant at 64 Oxford St. *Charges that maintenance has been inadequate...
...Complaints that HRE has paid contractors exorbitant prices for repairs and then tried to pass the costs on to tenants through rent increases. An independent contractor retained by tenants in one building testified last month that Harvard paid close to three times what it should have cost to paint walls and repair windows in one building a charge that University officials have also denied...
...press release that accompanied the announcement of HRE's formation quoted Wvatt as saving "It will help faculty who wish to live in Cambridge. It will improve service to students living off campus and to tenants." These articles will examine those promises and find out how well they have been kept...