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...rent control board is a five-person body of tenant and landlord representatives with an impartial chair, which decides on rate adjustments and other issues in the implementation of the rent control law in the city...
Rental costs for tenants in Harvard-owned housing wil rise significantly if a Harvard Real Estate (HRE) proposal is approved by the university this March, despite tenant complaints about Harvard's methods for determining rent increases...
...Harvard tenants were irked by the increases. HRE is "taking advantage of the fact that they don't have a stable tenant population, which means that people are less likely to protest," said Anne A. Maccoby '87, who rents a Mass. Ave. apartment from the university...
Harvard Real Estate (HRE) and the Harvard Planning Office are also examples of Harvard's paternalistic way of dealing with the community. HRE has always shunned tenant input into its major decisions, and they continue to ignore the activist Harvard Tenants Union. The Planning Office consistently excludes community members from the initial phases of all major building constructions and modifications. Instead, they ask for input only after the first set of plans have been drafted, thus giving community members a foregone conclusion which they can only modify in a minor...
...N.P.A. presence grows, so does its level of activity. Is a local landlord demanding too high a percentage of his tenant farmers' harvest? The offender is ordered to reduce his take. If he refuses, he is executed. Is a village drunk harassing the peasant population? He is warned to reform, and if no improvement is noted he is shot. Is a local official corrupt? He too is killed. All the while, the guerrillas distribute food and help with the farming. For some, this image of the N.P.A. as a band of benign vigilantes takes hold. But for many others...