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...neighborhood has changed physically as well. The former Oddfellows Hall has been torn down and a Kentucky Fried Chicken now stands at the same site, the old Harvard theatre at the corner of Shay and Mass Ave. is now a bank. The large Knights of Columbus hall has been demolished and the Knights now hold their meetings in a small, rented room adjacent to their former hall...
...spending considerable funds rehabilitating the properties within the Rent Control Board's guidelines. But it has become increasingly clear that maintaining rental housing in buildings with three or fewer units on a scattered, patchwork basis is not efficient for the University. Such buildings are best tended by an on-site owner-occupant who would become a part of the neighborhood fabric...
Harvard's year-old proposal to build graduate student housing at a Mt. Auburn St. site was set back again last week after the release of a long-awaited city housing report...
...Making those units rent controlled would place in the hands of the Rent Control Board and the City of Cambridge real power over what happens on that site," said tenant activist Michael H. Turk, a city council candidate who says he is opposed to the University's expansion into the Riverside neighborhood...
...Four rent-controlled units is a lot because we started out with 50 units," she said. O'Neill said that Harvard had already been accomodating by using the old building instead of constructing a new, larger one on the site...