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There were three empty tracts of Harvard-owned land in the vicinity of the Med School on which the AHC could conceivably have been located. But the housing site was selected for the AHC for two reasons: the need to reuse some of the existing Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and what Richard D. Wittrup, now executive vice president of the AHC, called "internal relations within the medical complex...
AFTER choosing the site, the AHC assumed responsibility for relocating displaced tenants and was engaged in preliminary planning for new housing units. But within days of the University Hall occupation there occurred a transfer of this responsibility and Harvard took charge of the task. As the Fein Committee began its proceedings in late April, the University pledged that there would be no evictions until it had built new housing at comparable rents and in nearby areas...
...construction of the AHC. But contracting an architect and developer, producing federal subsidies for the low-income portion of the housing, S. Gruson, assistant to the President for Community Affairs, first appeared before the committee on May 12, the plans had already been made. Neither was the AHC site a subject of the committee's deliberations. Despite numerous objections by committee members, and a petition signed by over two-thirds of all first-year medical students, Fein ruled that the site question was beyond the committee's purview...
...decision to move the hospital site bore only an incidental relation to the fact that original plans called for the destruction of large numbers of homes. Conceivably, this decision might have been made on the grounds that many families would otherwise have been displaced, and that the subsequent loss of low-income housing would have constricted an already tight housing market. Going a step further, the decision could have been made in consultation with the tenants themselves. Neither of these things was done...
HOSPITAL construction is now planned for a site on which there is no housing, but there is every indication that much of the original site will still be taken. The AHC now maintains a permanent option on an area which contains one-third of the endangered homes. F. Stanton Deland, Jr. '36, president of the AHC and a Harvard Overseer, stated recently that if the AHC finds no use for the land in three years' time, the option will revert back to the University, and possibly from the University to other medical agencies...