Word: rth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After lengthy negotiations with Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (RTH), Harvard's recognized bargaining unit for the community, to provide housing in exchange for the building of the power plant, the University went ahead with plans to get Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) approval for the project. MASCO needed this approval so it could take advantage of a state law which aids developers of "blighted" land in urban renewal areas. This law makes the developer eligible for tax-exempt building if the applicant can prove to the BRA board that the land is blighted and will be benefited by renewal. In return...
Harvard offered the land for the $47-million project in February as part of a Memorandum of Understanding signed between Harvard and RTH. Harvard's recognized neighborhood bargaining agent for the area...
State representatives, the president of RTH, and other community leaders praised the project during most of the two-and-one-half-hour meeting...
Robert Parks, president of the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (RTH), a group the University recognizes as the official bargaining agent for the residents of the area, said last night that the protesters were not connected with RTH and he does not know "anything about...
...RTH charged that the building of the power plant violated a 1970 agreement between the University and the tenant group which prohibited Harvard from taking land in the RTH neighborhood until residents could be relocated properly...