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...Tenants talk about the layers [of bureaucracy] you have to go through to get to anyone. Many of them regard [HRE President] Sally Zeckhauser as a myth," Turk says...
...HRE has often come before the board to ask for rent increases--many times on the grounds that they are needed to pay for capital improvements. The Harvard Tenants Union and its spokesman, Michael Turk, have been continuing adversaries to HRE in those has also stopped renting out apartments in the building, and the apartment complex now lies vacant...
...meantime, the Rent Control Board's staff, opponents of the rehabilitation and HRE fire planning to hold private negotiation to try to resolve the improve...
Beyond the disagreements with Harvard capital improvement program, Turk and David E. Sullivan, HRE's nemesis on the city council, criticize the management company for generally poor relations with its tenants. They say that Harvard is often unaware of its tenants concerns and that tenants have difficulty meeting with HRE officials to discuss their complaints...
Turk says this problem is particularly acute when it comes to the capital improvements. He cites one incident in which tenants in a HRE building were upset about workers replacing windows in their apartments in the middle of the winter. Turk says the tenants found it impossible speak with a responsible HRE official about the matter...