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...speaking residents. Comfortable wooden houses with stained-glass windows line the quiet streets, where children play in safety. Their grandmothers watch over them while their parents are at work. It is a community in the true sense of the word, and a neighborhood group called Roxbury Tenants of Harvard (RTH) has been working four long, hard years to keep it that...
...from some angry students, faculty and tenants who were determined to make Harvard live up to its responsibilities to the community. The issue became one of the major demands of the 1969 Strike, and students came into the neighborhood to knock on doors and join forces with the tenants. RTH began, committees were established, promises were made, plans drawn up. Three weeks ago, light appeared at the end of the tunnel--the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency (MHFA), at the tenants' request, voted to commit almost $38 million for the construction of a mixed-income housing development on Harvard-owned land...
...RTH has chosen the Hunneman Corporation to assume management of the housing development once it is occupied. John Sharratt Associates, Inc. will be the architect for the development, with Samuel Glaser and Partners as associate architect...
...think this is the first time an educational institution like Harvard has cooperated with a tenants' group," Robert Parks, president of RTH, said last week...
...RTH "took the lead on getting negotiations started to limit institutional expansion to a certain area," Parks said...