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...several small groups of tenants. At the Craigie Arms building on Mt. Auburn St., residents charged that Harvard violated Cambridge rent control codes; at 9-13a Ware St. tenants complained of trespassing by HRE workmen who are installing expensive new windows against the tenants' will; and at 8 Plympton St., tenants forced the rent board to correct overcharges in rent by HRE. Involved in each of these cases and several others were members of the Harvard Tenants' Union (HTU), a group with representatives in all of the University's major properties which celebrated its first anniversary last month...
...signal that perhaps HTU is beginning to have some small effect on Harvard's decision-making process. HRE has sent an employee to spy on a tenants' meeting, threatened at least one HTU activist with eviction, and broken out the heavy legal artillery to fight tenants at 8 Plympton St. who have been receiving assistance from Turk. At a recent rent control board meeting, HRE attorney Daniel Polvere filed an abnormally long--20 page--brief for Harvard, and stated that the rent board would open a "Pandora's box" of possible tenant complaints by siding against the University. HRE officials...
...Harvard not only should have known" about the Plympton St overcharges. Turk said, "but they did know...
Harvard collected the mistaken Plympton St rents--which too effect in January 1981 for about 14 months before tenant Anne Brinton complained to the rent board...
Part of the difficulty in calculating rents at the Plympton St. building arose because the structure contains commercial as well as residential housing...