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...energy usage survey of tenants in Harvard-owned buildings. But because Harvard does not recognize the existence of the tenants' union, the results of the survey were never used by the administrators who oversee the University's residential properties, which comprise the largest single portfolio owned by any Cambridge landlord. Members of the union were nevertheless determined that the survey findings, which they said demonstrated a "gross form of mismanagement" by Harvard Real Estate (HRE), be considered. The tenants have an economic interest in keeping down fuel costs because under rent control board regulations landlords may pass energy costs...
...coordinator Turk added that the settlement, while unquestionably a victory for the residents of Craigie Arms, might lead both Harvard and the Rent Control Board to view landlord-tenant financial settlements as a permissible way to circumvent the city's anti-eviction policies. "The city's interests are very different from the individual tenant's interests." Sullivan, who called the final agreement a "mixed blessing," said...
...petition for an advisory opinion asks: "Need a tenant grant his or her landlord access to his or her apartment for the purpose of making what can reasonably be called a renovation, substantial upgrading, or improvement which is not required" by state or local...
...clearly written to keep the landlord out except for certain specific purposes" he added explaining that a rent board ruling in favor of HTU could hamper Harvard's ongoing renovation projects...
...hope that this time the University will not succeed in stonewalling one of the most serious issues it now faces: the basic contradiction between Harvard the respected institution of higher learning and Harvard the always nasty and often brutally profiteering landlord...