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Speaking as one member of the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard Association, and not representing RTH, I would like to reply both to The Crimson article of April 24, 1974 and to the recent WHRB broadcasts about the strike of '69. The main problem with the article is that since it focused on the new housing we are building, it did not mention either that a lot of the old housing is remaining (for how long is constantly in dispute between us and Harvard, but it will remain, for a while, at least), or that people who will have to move...
...from the social class which enables them to know more about Celtic Literature or kidney transplants they also know better than working class people what is better for the latter. Do they know more about Celtic Literature than people who grew up in Ireland? (although of course people in RTH have all kinds of backgrounds). How can they know better than we what we would like our community to be? What makes them think that one has to go to Harvard to be brilliant...
...million MHFA loan, $1.8 million of which will be paid to Harvard as compensation for the 13-acre site. After 40 years, the University will have an option to repurchase the land. The 1970 proposal called for Harvard to "lease the land known as the Convent site to RTH and/or their designee for a minimum of 50 years at $1.00 per year...
...realization of this fact may account for Harvard's recent cooperative attitude, Sharratt said. He also attributed the University's willingness to respond to tenants to the bad publicity it was receiving. RTH's 1970 proposal included "a factual report of how [Harvard] had done wrong," complete with 22 pictures of building violations in the area--broken windows, rotting porches, exposed wiring, crumbling walls and ceilings. "Harvard's ago was hurt," Sharratt said. "On one level, it was a question of public relations. And there was a moralistic level...
...RTH has not yet given its final approval to the development plans, but it seems likely that it will do so before the plans go before the MHFA next week. Construction is scheduled to begin in the fall and to be completed by the spring of 1977. "It's going to be a good deal for the city and for the community," William Franklin, one of the ten members of RTH's executive board said last week. "But we're still on the ground floor and there's still a lot to be done." This is one community that...