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...announcement marked the birth of Harvard Real Estate (HRE), a non-profit real estate management company with control over all non-academic housing owned by the University...
...three years since, individual tenants have tried to argue that HRE has done much to serve Harvard's interests. but little or nothing to "improve the quality" of their lives Their complaints, though, have for the most part been individual and isolated, a rent increase in one building, the firing of a trusted superintendent in another...
...though, tenants are beginning to talk in broader terms: Within the last few weeks, the tenants from one building--22.24 Prescott St.--have contacted other residents and begun the task of forming a Harvard tenant's union. Meanwhile, a major internal review of HRE is reportedly underway...
Lewis Armistead, Harvard's community relations representative, said last night he found the charges against Harvard Real Estate "difficult to believe." He refused to comment on the tenant union's claims of substandard housing. Sally Zeckhauser, president of HRE, and Lorraine Wade, tenant relations director for HRE, were unavailable for comment...
...HRE spokesman Robert Silverman refused comment on the case yesterday...