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HARVARD University finally has a woman vice president. Sally Zeckhauser last week was promoted after nine years as head of Harvard Real Estate (HRE) to become the University's Vice President for Administration. The University is to be congratulated for taking a major step towards an integrated administration...
Zeckhauser's accomplishments are undisputed. Beginning in 1979, she built up HRE from a disorganized collection of apartments worth about $1 million into the city's largest landlord with a budget of $40 million...
Several of Zeckhauser's successes over the past nine years have been won at the expense of HRE's tenants. Two years ago the company tried to remove 60 apartments in the Craigie Arms apartment building from the rent control lists, sparking furor in the community. It continues to take rent-controlled apartments off of the rolls by selling them to small landlords who can legally evict tenants. In addition, tenant activists charge that HRE skirted the law in cases like those of rent-controlled buildings at 8-10 Mt. Auburn St. and 1306 Mass...
...self-described victim of Harvard Real Estate (HRE) no longer lives in Cambridge. He lived in a rent controled, Harvard-owned apartment until the University sold the place to a faculty member. Since it was then owner-occupied, the rent tripled and Tom had to retreat to Brookline. Touring the streets of his urban gallery, Tom greets HRE trucks with a faint call, "Hey there, remember...
...September 29 Crimson has many errors and half-truths and is grossly unfair to Sally Zeckhauser. A few examples: there is no state or other official estimate predicting MATEP will cause any lung cancer deaths over 40 years because of nitrogen dioxide or, for that matter, any other emissions; HRE does not run the shuttle bus system; and HRE found a home in Holyoke Center for the Thomas More Bookstore when the store had to move...